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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

. — At first glance, the binders incorporating a whole year of learning at the Parker-Varney elementary school in Manchester look a little like Candy Land, the beloved game of chance where players navigate a colorful route past delicious landmarks to arrive at a Candy Castle. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. The response?

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The Canary in the Law School Coal Mine

Edsurge

But were entities to emerge that paired online learning, with its flexibility and competency-based learning attributes, with place-based clinical experiences that trained students to practice law in a more affordable and practice-oriented fashion, the pressure on law schools would only increase.

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Predicting innovation trajectories in K-12 education

eSchool News

There are lots of promising innovations in tiny pockets of the education system, but decades of advocacy and investment have failed to see those innovations scale. Local businesses, advocacy organizations, and community groups shape public opinion and influence voters.

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‘Bigly’ Education Decisions for 2017

Edsurge

Department of Education (ED) staff, Congressional leaders, state school chiefs, and leaders of major trade associations, think tanks, and advocacy groups.). Employers are providing skills based training to their staff utilizing unbundled, SaaS resources like LinkedIn Learning. ED is already exploring the possible answers.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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