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Hack Education Weekly News

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Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Wired : “ Ajit Pai ’s Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People.” blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” ” Via The Telegraph : “ Teaching children with iPads means they struggle to concentrate without technology, study finds.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports. monthly subsidies toward cellular phone service or mobile broadband. Via Edsurge : “ Apple iPad Sales to Schools Jump 32%, Selling 1M Tablets in Fiscal Q3 2017.” Elsevier has acquired bepress.