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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” asks the Pioneer Press. ”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. “Head of Savannah College of Art and Design was the top-paid college leader in 2014,” says The Wall Street Journal.