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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. Via Techcrunch : “ Workplace by Facebook opens to sell enterprise social networking to the masses.” Education Politics. 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.” Via Venture Beat : “ LinkedIn resets some Lynda.com users’ passwords following data leak.” Via The Awl : “Letting Kids Use Social Media Is One More Way We Show Them We Don’t Care About Them.”