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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Like any business, the edtech industry includes actors that prioritize profit. This is not a condemnation of edtech as much as it is an acknowledgement that edtech is a business.

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

The Hechinger Report

Many among this small number are the children of higher-income families who can afford to pay for private schools or to hire college consultants, exacerbating a level of income inequality that economists at Puerto Rico’s Census Information Center say is third-highest in the world, after South Africa’s and Zambia’s.

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The ‘forgotten’ part of special education that could lead to better outcomes for students

The Hechinger Report

But she has no interest in the food industry. She struggles with decision-making and executive function, which are the skills that allow people to organize information and respond to it. This plan uses student interests and other information about a student to outline post-high school goals.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. How do we ensure that Google, Facebook, Amazon and Apple won’t sell these enormous stores of information to advertisers, employers, law enforcement or the military? Summit is very informative with parents.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

That kind of activism also stands out from what is happening in most other states, where students lack strong statewide organizations or are less involved in state politics, said Max Lubin, an Education Department official in the Obama administration who started the advocacy group Rise while a graduate student at Berkeley.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. ” asks the Pioneer Press.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Support for paddling is common in Collins, a place where families have deep roots.