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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

After clawing his way through college, however, he had a distinguished career in education — first as a middle school science teacher (where he and Bette met), then as a long-time member and chair of New Hampshire’s state board of education, and now as president of the nonprofit National Center for Competency-Based Learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Imagine Discovering That Your Teaching Assistant Really Is a Robot,” The Wall Street Journal gushed in 2016 , documenting an experiment undertaken at Georgia Tech in which a chatbot called “Jill Watson” answered questions in a course’s online forum. Aaron Swartz, 2008. Robot essay graders — they grade just the same as human ones.

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