Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

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. “UCL to investigate eugenics conference secretly held on campus,” says The Guardian.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” Via The New York Times : “ Robots or Job Training : Manufacturers Grapple With How to Improve Their Economic Fortunes.” ” Contests and Conferences. ” Via Edsurge : “ ISTE Wants to Be More Than Just a Conference.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 9, 2018

Department of Education Fulfills Administration Promise to Invest $200 Million in STEM Education.” Contests and Conferences. Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via Edsurge : “What Robots Can Teach Us About Being Human.” ” Based on what one sees at an education conference.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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., Peter Thiel.

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