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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Education Week : “Even When States Revise Standards, the Core of the Common Core Remains.” This group of older borrowers collectively hold $247 billion in student debt, an amount that has roughly tripled since 2003.” More shadiness from Thiel in the campus news section below.

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The Politics of Education Technology

Hack Education

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. Foreign students. Government involvement in student loans.