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Companies Invest in Preparing K–12 Students as Older Sectors Become Tech Integrated

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education system. According to a recent Pew survey , just 61 percent of those surveyed thought K–12 schools were properly teaching reading, writing and math, and only 25 percent thought schools were giving STEM classes enough time in the classroom.

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Two school districts in two states are scaling back their use of the Facebook -built Summit Public Schools ’ learning management system. Via Wired : “ Koch Brothers Are Cities’ New Obstacle to Building Broadband.” McRaven is stepping down as chancellor of the University of Texas System. ” William H.

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The University of North Carolina system Board of Governors voted 24 to 3, with one abstention, Friday to bar litigation by the UNC Chapel Hill School of Law’s Center for Civil Rights. Via Phil Hill : “Some Ed Tech Perspective on UC ’s Billion-Dollar Payroll System Fiasco.”

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Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Where’s the outrage?”

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Via Motherboard : “The FCC ’s New Broadband Map Paints an Irresponsibly Inaccurate Picture of American Broadband.” ” That is, the closure of the University of Texas System’s Institute for Transformational Learning. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Memos from HR.

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Via Wired : “ Ajit Pai ’s Plan Will Take Broadband Away From Poor People.” I’ve got all the “learn-to-code” news in the job training section, because let’s be honest… Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (State and Local) Education Politics. Don’t be ridiculous.

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“Higher education and library associations called on the Federal Communications Commission Thursday to uphold Obama-era rules requiring broadband providers to treat all traffic on the internet equally,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. and Tough Choices for Teachers.”