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This Year’s ASU+GSV Summit Is Hard to Describe. Here’s Our Best Attempt.

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Each year, the conference organizers try to broaden the conversation. happened on the Sunday evening before the first day of the conference. million seed round to build a learning management system modeled after WhatsApp and Slack. Women entrepreneurs made up more than a third of the presenting companies.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Congratulations, STEM folks and learn-to-code evangelists, for being featured in President Trump’s list of his 2017 accomplishments. More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below. Subscription boxes for teachers are somehow “ personalized learning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” Contests and Conferences. ” Via Edsurge : “ ISTE Wants to Be More Than Just a Conference. Learn How They Are Expanding.” ” There’s more “upgrade” news in the conference section above.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Department of Education Fulfills Administration Promise to Invest $200 Million in STEM Education.” Contests and Conferences. Ed Week’s Ben Herold is a sly one because here is a headline in the form of a question that most assuredly can be answered “yes”: “ Are Companies Overselling Personalized Learning?

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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. There were several high profile closures of bootcamps — Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc.,

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