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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.)

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Hack Education Weekly News

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According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” The New York Times on “The Challenges of Closing the Digital Divide.” Via Education Week : “ Common Core , College Readiness Skills Don’t Match Up, Study Says.”

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The Politics of Education Technology

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Marc Andreessen famously said that “software is eating the world,” but it’s far more accurate to say that the neoliberal values of software tycoons are eating the world. Every industry uses computers, software, and internet services. The Common Core. Political correctness. Foreign students.