Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

As a set of policies, accountability was instantiated in the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA) of 1965, reauthorized as the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB) of 2002, and reinforced by the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) of 2015. It’s weaponized already, of course. None of this surveillance plays out equitably.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. Sebastian Thrun stepped down as Udacity’s CEO. Everything’s a business opportunity.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. Or rather, their interest wasn’t in the features of the new LMS.

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

According to the conservative news site The Daily Caller , “Bailing On Common Core Tests Is Costing States Millions.” He was an instructor in one of several high-profile Coursera failures back in 2013. PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Remember Richard McKenzie?

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