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In the marketplace: Science achievement skyrockets, makerspaces expand, and more

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Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

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Colleges Face Investigations Over Whether Their Use of Social Media Follows Accessibility Regulations

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While some institutions have tried to punt responsibility for the accessibility of digital tools to the companies that produce them, that reasoning hasn’t persuaded federal agencies or judges. In 2016, when WebAIM ran automatic testing on 14 web pages from 62 large universities (including at least one from each U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this? ” The company in question: Dipont Education Management Group.