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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Virginia circuit court on Thursday ruled against a George Mason University student group seeking access to donor agreements between a university foundation and the Charles Koch Foundation.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Sounds like fun.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

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Although it didn’t say it was an explicit response to the compromise it experienced earlier in the year, Code.org announced in July that it was changing how students would log into its Code Studio and that it was deleting some 10 million student email addresses from its system and would not collect that information any longer.

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Why is the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative’s Bror Saxberg posting on the Department of Education ’s Medium blog ? Via NPR : “19 Years After Columbine , Students Walk Out To Stop Gun Violence.” ’” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Wait. It’s raised $155.8

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. No doubt, some of these videos helped highlight the violence that students — particularly students of color — face at the hands of disciplinarians. Pearson PARCC "Spies" on Students. And Braun’s blog post made everyone aware of that.

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “The number of career colleges and the number of credentials they award have dropped by roughly 20 percent in the last four years, new data from the U.S. ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Education Department show.” Without a University Involved.)”

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” The chain in question: Celerity Educational Group. Via The New York Times : “ Canada Beckons International Students With a Path to Citizenship.” Via Education Week : “ Mississippi Attorney General Sues Google Over Student-Data Privacy.” ” Education in the Courts.