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Audrey Beardsley: The Silencing of the Educators, A Dangerous Trend - Diane Ravitch''s blog Raising (and Educating) ''Free Range Kids'' - Hack Education Student Debt Accounts For Nearly Half Of US Government "Assets" Testing Chaos in Seattle - Diane Ravitch''s blog My Objections to the Common Core State Standards (1.0) - Stager-to-Go LibGuides: Pedagogy (..)

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss. ” (That giant: Pearson , of course.). Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). MOOCs for credit !