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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Techcrunch : “ Holberton gets backing from more industry executives as it looks to scale its software engineering school.” Chegg has acquired Cogeon for $15 million. “Higher Education, Digital Divides , and a Balkanized Internet” by Bryan Alexander.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.)

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Remember: the biases of engineers and managers get baked into the software you use. “ Ed Tech Cybersecurity : Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came,” writes Phil Hill on the Chegg data breach. .” The story is much more than sexual misconduct allegations against Rubin. Is It the Best Role Model?