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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Techcrunch : “The 52 startups that launched at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 1.” ” And via Techcrunch : “All 51 startups that debuted at Y Combinator W17 Demo Day 2.” ” “ VR makes a big classroom impact,” Education Dive claims. ” Honestly, I can’t even bear to look.

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Out of poverty, into the middle class

The Hechinger Report

As emerging technologies rapidly and thoroughly transform the workplace, some experts predict that by 2030 400 million to 800 million people worldwide could be displaced and need to find new jobs. Some states — and individual high schools — are also trying to break down the walls between classrooms and industry.

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