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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via PBS Newshour : “GOP reinstates usage of ‘ illegal alien ’ in Library of Congress ’ records.” “ Pearson gets emergency test scoring contract from Tennessee ,” Chalkbeat reports. Pearson hearts coding bootcamps. “ OpenStax , Knewton introduce adaptive learning into OER.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “British Officials, Pearson Probe Effort to Leak Test Content.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “They rejected multi-state Common Core exams. Hey, we could ask Pearson how much money it made off of those taking the GED last year to find out.).