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.” Via the AP : “A judge ruled Friday that school districts [in Florida ] can’t hold 3rd graders back just because they score badly on a mandated standardized reading test, saying that classroom grades and teacher evaluations have to be considered.” Robots probably won’t take your jobs. million total.

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” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ” The Chronicle of Higher Education on Elsevier “becoming a data company.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 ” Holy s**t.

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On video games , for example – yes, that old canard. What Happens in My Classroom During a Lockdown Drill Should Horrify Americans,” writes K. Wikispaces Classroom (and free wikis from the company, now owned by TES ) joins the ed-tech dead pool. Katzmann in The Trace. Newkirk II in The Atlantic. Via the Hypothes.is