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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From 1995 to 2005, DeVos sat on the board of the Acton Institute , which recently published a blog post decrying child labor laws. “ Will Trump care about student data privacy? “ Cornel West Will Return to Teach at Harvard ,” The New York Times reports. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.