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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. Summit flew Gill and her team to San Francisco, for school visits and training, and won them over. Collectively, New England Basecamp and Highlander have trained hundreds of educators at dozens of schools in the state since 2014.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

So this, from the American Enterprise Institute , is completely unsurprising: “School-choice advocate Steve Jobs in 1995: ‘The unions are the worst thing that ever happened to education’ ” The Business of Job Training. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Economic Boom Isn’t Helping Some Student-Loan Debtors , Advocacy Group Says.” How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” The Business of Job Training (and the Business of Jobs Giving Educational Benefits for Employees).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” New Nanodegrees from Udacity : Digital Marketing and Robotics. ” The Business of Job Training. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Robots hate the Common Core. ” Contests.