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Mark Cuban, ECMC Lead $1.8M Round for Cluster to Develop Industrial Tech Talent

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million in a seed round led by Mark Cuban and ECMC Group, an education nonprofit. Other investors include education technology executives, like Penn Foster CEO Frank Britt and Chegg CEO Dan Rosensweig, along with Zynga founder Mark Pincus and Flatiron Health CEO, Nat Turner. It’s in this niche where Cluster operates, and is growing.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “Career Training Groups Encouraged by Trump Pick for CTE Job.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Techcrunch : "Starting a robotics company out of school? Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. ” More via Edsurge. ” That is, Scott Stump.

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“Researchers say removal of an IRS tool for financial aid applicants may have slowed FAFSA submissions, while college aid groups warn that affected students could already be losing out on aid,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. “Culturally Sensitive Robots Are Here to Care for the Elderly ,” Futurism.com claims. Remember: robots for the elderly share a direct connection to MOOCs replacing higher ed.).

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” The Black Alliance for Educational Options , a charter school advocacy group, announced it will cease operations at the end of the year. Chavous is a founding board member of the American Federation for Children , the school choice advocacy group formerly chaired by Betsy DeVos.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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Via Pacific Standard : “How Universities Facilitate Far-Right Groups’ Harassment of Students and Faculty.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Chegg has acquired the flashcard app StudyBlue for $20.8 Helluva budget for marketing that initiative has. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The U.S.

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” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “Shadowy ‘Group of 17 Faculty’ Adds Confusion to Chapel Hill’s Silent Sam Debate.” ” The headline really doesn’t do justice to this story, which involves a Confederate statue and a faculty group’s threat to remove it if UNC does not.