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The "Liberation of Education" Online Conference Starts Today - I'm Speaking Twice

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Note that your registration includes total access to all conference recordings, so even if you can't attend during the live events, then submit a registration in order to receive recordings.) Learning Revolution is a conference partner for this event, which means that you can register to attend for free HERE.

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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

Edsurge

Charisse Taylor , senior director of policy and implementation at NYC Department of Education, will share resources, templates and other activities aimed at helping educators create new CS programs that are “diverse by design.” Four of them— Lauren Miller (CEO of Can't Stay Put), Crystal deGregory ( Executive Editor of HBCUstory Inc.),

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

” How Philanthropy Shapes “Ed-Tech Trends” It’s hard to overstate how much influence philanthropic organizations have had on education policy, now and throughout US history. Philanthropy today shapes policy. No contemporary billionaire has shaped the policy and the discourse in education quite like Bill Gates.

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Colleges fight attempts to stop them from withholding transcripts over unpaid bills

The Hechinger Report

But in the beginning there was a lot of resistance, and we needed to have a lot of advocacy to take this bill across the finish line.”. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Somewhere along the line it changed,” said Piet van Lier, senior researcher at the progressive think tank Policy Matters Ohio. “We

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. “ States Are Adopting More Computer Science Policies. Common App will merge with Reach Higher , a college-access program started by Michelle Obama. Does He Want To? ” asks Dan Willingham.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) Despite a few anecdotes, they’re really not.).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Chalkbeat : “For Betsy DeVos and her former advocacy group, the future of education means ‘ personalization ,’ including virtual schools.” ” “ UC reverses policy, won’t pick up tab for regents’ parties,” The San Francisco Chronicle reports. However will they cope.