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Just Wanderful! Living Books Are Back!

The Daring Librarian

Not any of our iBooks, MacBook Pros, eMacs (2003), or brand spanking new iMacs. shakes fist in air in mock fury] So, sniffing a bit with nostalgic ennui, I Googled them and EUREKA! But this year I tested them and they do NOT work on ANY of my computers. We run an OSX school & these old CD-ROM''s only run on classic.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “ Google Is Being Investigated By Missouri Attorney General,” Fortune reports. Oh and look at this: “Google Critic [Peter] Thiel Gave Money to Official Probing Search Giant,” Bloomberg reports. Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.”

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

Facebook, like Google, is an advertising company. The Common Core. ” “Net neutrality,” a term coined in 2003 by Columbia University law professor Tim Wu, is the principle that all Internet traffic – regardless of source or content or user – should be treated equally. Political correctness.

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Kids struggle to read when schools leave phonics out

The Hechinger Report

” Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair? It wasn’t being published in a lot of the journals and newsletters she got as a school principal, but as her boss, Silva, had discovered, all it takes is a Google search to find it. And that’s the best they’re going to do.'”

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