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Hack Education Weekly News

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The Hechinger Report on personalized learning : “The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed.” ” Wait, so Purdue is gonna run Kaplan and a nuclear lab? ” Former Kaplan exec Justin Serrano has been hired as the president of Schoology. ” Immigration and Education.

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So here’s an early contender for “Worst Education ‘Take’ of 2018’” by Gary Wolfram in Education Week : “ Make Public Education a Market Economy – Not a Socialist One.” More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below.

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” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The 2018 Surveys of Admissions Leaders: The Pressure Grows.” ” Wait, so you mean AltSchool didn’t invent personalized learning? Watch and see).

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” “ Torn Apart / Separados ” – “A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed.” Learn How They Are Expanding.”

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Priscilla Giddings took a picture with them and posted it to FB with the following caption: pic.twitter.com/zbjLySRtbP — Anne Helen Petersen (@annehelen) June 29, 2018. link] — Uni of Reading (@UniofReading) July 2, 2018. ” That’s Kaplan , in case you can’t keep all these for-profit disasters straight.

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— Airbnb Citizen (@AirbnbCitizen) November 2, 2018. Mindwires Consulting’s Phil Hill with “Notes on EDUCAUSE 2018.” ” All those teachers promoting their personal brandzzz on Insta will be thrilled! From Pearson : “ AI-based tutoring : A new kind of personalized learning.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Although sometimes talked about as a “movement,” Mozilla’s Open Badges Project was really more of a technical specification, one that was transferred from Mozilla to IMS Global Learning Consortium in 2017. Wedge Tailed Green Pigeon.

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