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Hack Education Weekly News

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According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. ” That for-profit is Laureate Education , the largest chain of for-profit schools in the world and an investor in Coursera. Small world).

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The Top Ed-Tech Trends (Aren't 'Tech')

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Neither Coursera nor Udacity nor edX have become corporate training platforms , although perhaps that’s what Microsoft hopes to become, as a result of its acquisition of the professional social network LinkedIn, which had previously acquired the online training company Lynda.com.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via KJZZ : “ Arizona Board Of Education Replaces Common Core State Standards.” ” “ The Most Popular Courses of 2016 ” on Coursera. Via Venture Beat : “ LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users’ passwords following data leak.” ” The Trump Administration.