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Hack Education Weekly News

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“Free College” Via Edsurge : “For Free Community College , Online Learning Isn’t Always Part of the Recipe for Success.” Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. Learn-to-code company Tynker has acquired Pythonroom. ” That’s the University of Kansas. Selected has raised $1.2

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) The struggles faced by the One Laptop Per Child project have continued since its outset. (In Common Core State Standards.

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