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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).” And digital bits have replaced the need to cut down trees to make paper and waste ink to create those books.”

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

Under such plans, the funding for a course taken by an individual student goes to the school or online company offering the course, often away from the student’s local district. They want them at school learning. We need to step back and start learning what policy environments work in terms of incentivizing the right behavior.