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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Education Politics. Secretary of Education John B. Board of Education.” ” Via The Atlantic: “ The Challenge of Educational Inequality.” Education Department said this week it will make Pell Grants available to 10,000 high school students who are enrolled in courses at 44 colleges.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Education Politics. ” Via KJZZ : “ Arizona Board Of Education Replaces Common Core State Standards.” Via Eclectablog : “Billionaire Betsy DeVos , Trump’s pick for Sec of Education, has even found a way to profit from the #FlintWaterCrisis.” ” asks Education Dive.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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(National) Education Politics. Thoughts on how this might effect education from Inside Higher Ed , from NPR , from Internet2 (via Bryan Alexander), from The Washington Post , and from Edsurge. Via Education Week : “President Donald Trump has tapped Frank Brogan , who served as former Florida Gov. Education in the Courts.

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The Politics of Education Technology

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The business of education technology overlaps with the politics of ed-tech. One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. The politics overlap with privacy. The US Presidential Campaign.