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Hack Education Weekly News

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There’s more on the GED, that very old competency-based learning exam, in the research section below. Via Techcrunch : “ Upskill launches support for Microsoft HoloLens.” ” Contests and Conferences. ” The conference in question: The Future Investment Initiative. million total.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). Peter Thiel.

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