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Higher Ed’s Credit Transfer System Is Broken. Here’s a Better Way.

Edsurge

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. No wonder, then, all the articles that have detailed students’ wasted time, wasted money and wasted hopes over the past two decades. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow. The numbers are painful.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon. The Teacher Influencer Hustle.

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