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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress. Estimates of just how sluggish vary. In 2016, U.S.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. And “free” doesn’t last. Sometimes they strike a deal.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” From the Republican National Convention: TurnItIn was pleased , I’m sure, to be invoked many times following Melania Trump ’s convention speech, which plagiarized passages from Michelle Obama ’s 2008 speech. Excluding the debt financing (it raised $275 million that way in January), the company has raised $78.61

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Business partnerships with community colleges help funnel workers into better jobs

The Hechinger Report

Roma Ouk, 33, enrolled in the wire harness assembly boot camp at Mesa Community College in Arizona, a partnership with Boeing, and later was hired by General Dynamics, an aerospace and defense company, as a senior manufacturing and production operator. Credit: Brandon Sullivan for The Hechinger Report. States could get up to $2.5

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