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Who is the Theranos of Education?

Edsurge

Knewton: All Talk, Little Evidence While AltSchool spent millions of dollars, few experts I talked to described the microschool model as having negative impacts on student learning. Knewton needed to keep all students inside their system, for all subjects, sucking up all the data and finding ways to utilize it to improve learning.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0:

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Mother Jones : “How the Justice Department Is Trying to Dismantle Georgia ’s Segregated Special-Education System.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.” ” Presidential Campaign Politics. Hillary Clinton has named Rohit Chopra to her transition team.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Clickers” are definitely not new — indeed, in my research for Teaching Machines , I found examples of classroom response systems dating back to the 1950s. which powers universities' disciplinary record systems, pleaded guilty last month to conspiring to hack into the computer systems of competitors and steal their information.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “As Kaplan Sale Faces Final Hurdle, Purdue President Criticizes Faculty Opponents.” The “ invisible ” “adaptive learning” company has raised $38.7 .” The college in question: Northwest Suburban College. ” Of course. million total.