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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdScoop : “ Google adds new terms to comply with Connecticut student data privacy laws.” ” Tune into my newsletter tomorrow when I blast a curriculum that offers no social sciences or humanities courses. Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. Not so fast, suggest investors.

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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. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Students would be required to pay. Students, no surprise, weren’t thrilled by the idea.).

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