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” Via Ars Technica : “Senate Democrats fight FCC plan to lower America’s broadband standards.” million to cover federal funds that went to the botched statewide school broadband contract.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Daniel Willingham on learning styles. Its Children Lost.”

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” Via Edsurge : “As Bootcamps Look for Novel Ways for Students to Pay For Their Studies, Many Try ‘ Deferred Tuition ’ ” Do note how student financial aid startups are still raising venture capital (and how now, I guess, ed-tech publications cover these stories when before they insisted these weren’t ed-tech).

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” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Spoiler alert: it’s about learning how to teach differently.). Personalized learning is anything you want it to be.

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” Via Multichannel News : “Trayvon Martin Attorney Parks Targets AT&T Over Alleged Broadband Redlining.” ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Oh.

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Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.” ” “No College Kid Needs a Water Park to Study,” says James Koch in a NYT op-ed , criticizing schools spending money on lavish amenities. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. See the sports section below for one calculation.).

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Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” Via The Washington Post : “Meet the parents who won’t let their children study literature.” Via WaPo : “Study: Robot baby dolls don’t curb teen pregnancies.

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Via Wired : “ Ajit Pai ’s Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People.” I’ve got all the “learn-to-code” news in the job training section, because let’s be honest… Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. What Should We Teach?”