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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. “ Blackboard Partners with Fishtree for Personalized Learning,” says Campus Technology. “ Online tutoring by students raises access fears,” says the Times Higher Education. – this time in science. Or something.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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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Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. “ Gates Foundation CEO Admits Underestimating Common-Core Challenges.” Upgrades and Downgrades. Instead, it shames them.”