{"id":69146,"date":"2019-12-28T02:00:37","date_gmt":"2019-12-28T07:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/?p=69146"},"modified":"2019-12-27T15:13:44","modified_gmt":"2019-12-27T20:13:44","slug":"companies-say-blockchain-could-have-prevented-college-admissions-scandal-young","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/2019\/12\/28\/companies-say-blockchain-could-have-prevented-college-admissions-scandal-young\/","title":{"rendered":"Companies Say Blockchain Could Have Prevented College Admissions Scandal [Young]"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-12-19-companies-say-blockchain-could-have-prevented-college-admissions-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><strong>Companies Say Blockchain Could Have Prevented College Admissions Scandal<\/strong> <\/a>&#8212; from edsurge.com by Jeff Young<\/p>\n<p><em>Excerpt:<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">One of the most eye-catching aspects of the recent Varsity Blues\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.edsurge.com\/news\/2019-03-12-key-details-and-reactions-to-college-admissions-scandal\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">admissions scandal<\/a>\u00a0was that fake athletic profiles were created for students to help them get into highly-selective colleges through so-called \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.chronicle.com\/specialreport\/Admission-Through-the-Side\/240\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow noreferrer\">side doors<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p style=\"padding-left: 40px;\">Now, several companies that sell student-record systems based on blockchain\u2014the technology behind Bitcoin\u2014are pitching their products as a way to prevent that kind of fraudulent record tampering in the future.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Companies Say Blockchain Could Have Prevented College Admissions Scandal &#8212; from edsurge.com by Jeff Young Excerpt: One of the most eye-catching aspects of the recent Varsity Blues\u00a0admissions scandal\u00a0was that fake athletic profiles were created for students to help them get into highly-selective colleges through so-called \u201cside doors.\u201d Now, several companies that sell student-record systems based [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[819,115,302,823,210,309,480,195,321,214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-69146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blockchain","category-colleges","category-community-colleges","category-credentialing","category-emerging-technologies","category-platforms","category-society","category-tools","category-united-states","category-universities"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=69146"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":69147,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/69146\/revisions\/69147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=69146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=69146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/danielschristian.com\/learning-ecosystems\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=69146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}