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At Local Libraries, Teens Pursue – and Publish – Their Passions

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Rachel Kaplan, a 16-year-old from Northbrook, Ill., At the Northbrook Public Library, where Kaplan is a Teen Advisory Council member, interest was so high the event turned into Teen Tech Month. “We For Kaplan, Teen Tech Week activities were a natural outgrowth of her love affair with Northbrook’s library, which began two summers ago.

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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. Impero Software has been acquired by Investment Technology Partners which paid $36.3 Via The LA Times : “Former L.A. Tinkergarten has raised $5.4

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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. And then I’m happy to answer any questions you might have about the current state of ed-tech – products or propaganda. This is the “PayPal Mafia.” The Princeton Review?

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