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Read Dr. Boston’s posts offering his insights into higher education, K-12 education, and technology.

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Continuing the Conversation With ChatGPT About the Cost of Knowledge

February 3, 2025

After my last post, a few friends and colleagues contacted me and noted that the article posing several questions to ChatGPT about the cost of knowledge was excellent. A few…

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ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

January 27, 2025

Paul LeBlanc, long-time president of Southern New Hampshire University (SNHU), stepped down on June 30 to co-found and lead Human Systems, an artificial intelligence (AI) and education startup funded by…

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AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

January 22, 2025

I’ve been writing about artificial intelligence off and on since 2010. After the release of ChatGPT-3 in November 2022, I increased my pace of reading and writing substantially. During a…

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WICHE Projection of High School Graduates

December 18, 2024

For a while, various reporters and writers have mentioned the pending demographic cliff, the year in which the number of U.S. high school seniors peak. The data, based on birth…

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College Affordability: Is the Market Driving the Cost of Tuition?

December 10, 2024

Every state in the U.S. provides free education to its residents from grades K-12. Some states have added Pre-K to that free education continuum, and others have added funding for…

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New Tuition-Free Financial Aid Announcements

December 2, 2024

Whenever I read an article touting an announced financial aid policy that eliminates tuition for students whose family incomes are below a specified amount, I cringe. Many reporters appear to…

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New Studies Indicate Many Master’s Degrees Have No Value

November 27, 2024

After decades of touting the benefits of earning a graduate degree, I’m beginning to believe that more and more evidence touts the opposite. In July 2021, Wall Street Journal (WSJ)…

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Meritocracy in Higher Education

November 22, 2024

From my earliest years in school, everything was about academic meritocracy. America was in the middle of the Cold War with the Soviet Union and the “Space Race” to be…

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AI Analyzes the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election

November 14, 2024

AI Analyzes the 2024 U.S. Presidential Election STORM is a new LLM developed at Stanford University. I wrote about it a few weeks ago and included a sample of its…

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Artificial Intelligence/AI

Continuing the Conversation With ChatGPT About the Cost of Knowledge

February 3, 2025
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ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

January 27, 2025
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AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

January 22, 2025
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EdTech

Trends and observations about the intersection of education and technology.

ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

January 27, 2025
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NotebookLM: Another Google Experimental AI

October 14, 2024
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STORM: A Stanford University AI Writing System

October 8, 2024
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Higher Education

The evolution of higher education, from traditional, four-year programs to non-traditional, online approaches.

Continuing the Conversation With ChatGPT About the Cost of Knowledge

February 3, 2025
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ChatGPT’s Philosophical Thoughts About the Cost of Knowledge

January 27, 2025
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AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

January 22, 2025
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Independent Schools

The role of private and public, online universities and online programs in extending educational opportunities to underserved communities.

Private School Enrollment Management: A Planning Guide

August 21, 2024
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Does the Supreme Court Affirmative Action Ruling Apply to Private…

June 5, 2024
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Private School Tuition Discounting: A Sound Business Model?

February 21, 2024
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K-12

Emerging theories, practices, and outcomes in American grade schools and high schools.

AI Recommended Publications and Links Related to Education

January 22, 2025
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WICHE Projection of High School Graduates

December 18, 2024
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Dual Enrollment Continues to Grow Nationally

September 25, 2024
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Miscellaneous

Dr. Boston’s reflections on emerging trends and other hard-to-categorize topics.

The American Economy in 2024: An Overseas Perspective

October 25, 2024
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Knowledge Workers and AI – Implications of a Study

September 18, 2023
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7 Tips for Success – A Note From A Friend

July 19, 2023
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Penrose Far West

November 6, 2024
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The Future of Space Studies Programs and Space Exploration

April 17, 2020
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Student Persistence

New insights into why students drop out of college—and how to improve their chances of completion.

How Many of 39 Million Americans With Some College But…

April 7, 2023
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National Student Clearinghouse First Look Fall 2022 Enrollment Report

October 24, 2022
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Credit Accumulation and Completion Rates Among First Year Students

August 8, 2022
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Uncategorized

Dual Enrollment Continues to Grow Nationally

September 25, 2024
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Meeting the Grand Challenges to Higher Ed: External Competition

August 26, 2020
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An Inspired Teacher Uses Entrepreneurship to Inspire Her Students

July 16, 2014
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Workforce

How to prepare college graduates for future workforce opportunities as well as position employees for a lifetime of reskilling and upskilling.

Graduate Degrees: Risky and Unequal Paths to the Top

October 4, 2024
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Texas Community Colleges: Year Two Funding Incentives

August 13, 2024
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The College Wage Premium: Education and Lifetime Earnings

August 5, 2024
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Artificial Intelligence/AI

EdTech

Higher Education

Independent Schools

K-12

Science

Student Persistence

Workforce