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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. He added that the number of students graduating with majors in STEM – science, technology, engineering and math – has doubled since the introduction of predictive analytics. But some STEM majors are tougher than others.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Sante Fe University of Art and Design will close at the end of the 2017–2018 school year. " It’s lovely to see the big innovation from the MOOC startups in 2017 involves the learning management system. In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. ” LOL, okay.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

And now, the final weeks of 2016 revolve around what will happen after January 20, 2017. E-Rate has been, since the origin of the fund in 1996, the main way in which schools and libraries were supposedly guaranteed “reasonable rates” on telecommunications services. The US Presidential Campaign.