Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In 2007, administrators were frustrated by the district’s poor outcomes and low graduation rate. After unsuccessfully approaching several major internet companies, the district decided to take matters into its own hands. Ninety five percent of students in the district are Hispanic. Getting there wasn’t easy.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2021

Florida, where Tré and his sisters have lived since they permanently migrated from the Bahamas in 2007, has nearly 8,000 children who have lost a primary caregiver to Covid—the third-highest number nationally, behind California and Texas. Tré is a customer-service representative at AeroCare, a medical-equipment company. Jenny says.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 11, 2019

It was 2007, and his family was registering for benefits at a refugee camp in Uganda, where they’d settled after fleeing civil war in South Sudan. After three years she saved $300 and surprised him with a laptop. Lual Mayen, a video game developer based in Washington, D.C., remembers the first time he saw a computer.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

— Inside a high-ceilinged library at Northridge High School here, seniors are typing on 16-year-old laptops donated by a local Rotary Club. Norton, as the seniors in the library close their balky laptops and head to class. The students live in homes with multiple laptops, iPads, tablets, iPhones – iEverything.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. Ban Laptops" Op-Eds. And “free” doesn’t last. WTF is Unizin ?!

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Hack Education

MAY 24, 2017

When I hear the phrase “the new normal,” I cannot help but think of the ways in which those same words were used in the US to describe the economy during and since the financial crisis of 2007–2008 and subsequent global recession. That period was also one of enormous growth in new digital technology companies.

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2018

opens door for student loan companies to ignore state authority.” This isn’t really financial aid per se, but it’s part of the larger suite of financial products that schools (and the companies they partner with) push. ” Via Wired : “Tech Companies Try to Retrain the Workers They’re Displacing.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

Should you ban laptops ? Executives from Google, Facebook, and Twitter testified before Congress in October, responding to questions about the role these Internet companies had played in the election, particularly as related to allegations of Russian interference. Are standing desks ? Is ESP real ? Do cellphones cause brain cancer ?

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