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As Colleges Move Away From the SAT, Will Admissions Algorithms Step In?

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Of course, test scores are just one piece of data colleges turn to when predicting which students are likely to excel in rigorous courses, enrich campus life with a unique perspective, graduate in four years, or even help balance the books with a large tuition check. “We Sometimes an admissions process can be extremely subjective.

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Education Technology and the Power of Platforms

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To believe that would require, of course, that we overlook the role that the major technology platforms – Google, Facebook, and Amazon – play in education. Would there even be “learning analytics” without the LMS, I wonder?). A computing platform is the stage on which computer programs can run.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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