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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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At about the same time, though, Rutgers officials sent out an email to all faculty at the university, warning about Course Hero and another service, Chegg, where students were posting faculty tests and exams without permission. “We And he said the company’s policies mean that they have to be the ones to make sure the site isn’t being abused.

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Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork

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According to financial documents obtained by EdSurge, that stock is valued at roughly $4 million, based on WeWork’s most recent equity fundraise—a $4.4 According to the documents, the deal was crafted in three months. The details behind the deal offer clues as to why reactions have been tepid. What were the terms of the deal?

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“The 72 OSERS Documents Rescinded by Betsy deVos ” – by Liz Ditz. the nation’s largest virtual charter school management company , as president of academics, policy, and schools. Chegg has acquired Cogeon for $15 million. (National) Education Politics. Another education IPO – the second of the year.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “The Trump Administration Just Rescinded Obama-Era Guidance on Race-Conscious Admissions Policies. It shaped policy. Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Trump Administration Will Rescind Obama-Era Guidelines on Race-Conscious Admissions.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data.

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