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Educational Crises and Ed-Tech: A History

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In fact, in 2019, UNESCO estimated that 258 million children — about one in six of the school-age population — were not in school. As the Superintendent William Johnson wrote in an article in The New York Times a week after the experiment launched, So far as possible, fifteen minutes' time is given to each broadcast above the fourth grade.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” The race for the California State Superintendent is still undecided – at least as I type up this article, it is. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Correction: This is the Class of 2019.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via The Post and Courier : “ South Carolina ’s online charter schools: A $350 million investment with disappointing returns.” Here’s a sponsored article , paid for by the Gates Foundation and published by Edsurge promoting the school and its technology.).

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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. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” I wrote about Whittle and his investment pal Michael Moe in an article in The Baffler in January of this year.

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). From Pearson : “ AI-based tutoring : A new kind of personalized learning.” ” “The EDUCAUSE 2019 Top 10 IT Issues ” from Educause.

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” Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” “The University of California, Los Angeles , is planning a major expansion in the online certificate and graduate degree markets that it hopes will reach as many as 15,000 students by early next decade,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. Department ’s Privacy Office to Take Effect in Early 2019.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). “Life Is Complicated: Distance Learning Helps,” says The New York Times.