Read Dr. Boston’s posts offering his insights into higher education, K-12 education, and technology.
A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American Journal of Cardiology: “At the suggestion of Larry Summers (the Obama Administration) ‘urged state unemployment offices to send a letter…
A list of papers I reviewed for a future post about Parent PLUS loans surfaced an eye-opening sentence about financial aid fraud from a 2022 article published in the American…
I use an AI-related tool daily. Last October, I wrote about NotebookLM, Google’s personalized AI collaborator. In that article, I described my activities of loading links to previously published blog…
For nearly two decades, I led the online American Public University System through the early, medium, and high enrollment growth stages of online courses and degree programs. In those early…
By now, it should be evident that generative AI tools will impact the future of the workforce. Predictions of the extent of the impact vary widely. There are several papers…
I frequently write and speak about the higher-than-inflationary college tuition increases since the late 1970’s. More specifically, how the decision by Harvard’s Board in 1978 to increase Harvard’s undergraduate tuition…
(The article below was written by Stanford University’s STORM application. A summary of the article was included in my previous blog post. I decided it was worthwhile to post the…
Generative AI’s release to the world less than three years ago triggered a frenzy of new “products,” as well as predictions and criticisms of the technology. Over the past year,…
The U.S. Copyright Office is charged by statute with administering the United States’ copyright laws. It is housed in the Library of Congress, and its mission is “to promote creativity…
Artificial intelligence tools, particularly those offered by well-funded companies like OpenAI, are constantly changing. Some of those changes occur thanks to the software’s machine learning design. Other changes are based…
The evolution of higher education, from traditional, four-year programs to non-traditional, online approaches.
The role of private and public, online universities and online programs in extending educational opportunities to underserved communities.
Emerging theories, practices, and outcomes in American grade schools and high schools.
Dr. Boston’s reflections on emerging trends and other hard-to-categorize topics.
New insights into why students drop out of college—and how to improve their chances of completion.
How to prepare college graduates for future workforce opportunities as well as position employees for a lifetime of reskilling and upskilling.
