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Hack Education Weekly News

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” More on the policy change via IHE. ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. .” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “DeVos Withdraws Obama-Era Memos Focused on Improving Loan Servicing.” Here’s the very short press release from the Department of Education.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Chalkbeat on vouchers in Indiana : “Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. . “Privileged Whites.” ” Holy s**t. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ States Are Adopting More Computer Science Policies. ” A data breach at Chegg – more details in the data and surveillance section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Chegg resets 40 million user passwords after data breach.” “ Can Jeff Bezos Bring a Montessori Education to Underserved Children?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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. Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. 3D Printing.

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