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Hack Education Weekly News

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” That’s Joel Rose ’s School of One software. “ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. ” The Google Memo. ” Via The Guardian’s Julie Carrie Wong : “Segregated Valley: the ugly truth about Google and diversity in tech.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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'The Ed-Tech Mafia'

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” The photo was taken as part of a 2007 profile in Fortune magazine. Knewton founder Jose Ferreira formerly worked at Kaplan. AltSchool founder Max Ventilla was a Google exec. Who worked at Google. This is the “PayPal Mafia.” The Princeton Review? The Gates Foundation? And what do they want?

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