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Via The New York Times : New York governor “ Cuomo to Give Colleges $7 Million for Courses in Prisons.” ” Testing, Testing… The Chronicle of Higher Education reads “New Venture Will Offer Free Courses That Students Can Take for College Credit.” Via The LA Times : “Former L.A.

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Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Education in the Courts.

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“ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” ” asks Edsurge.

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Not ed-tech per se (unless you recognize that “personalized learning” is greyballing), but according to The New York Times , “ Uber Faces Federal Inquiry Over Use of Greyball Tool to Evade Authorities.” ” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.”

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Education Department said this week it will make Pell Grants available to 10,000 high school students who are enrolled in courses at 44 colleges.” And The Next Web headline makes for… something: “ Facebook and Google could be allowed to award university degrees.” ” Via NPR : “The U.S.

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” Of course. blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” How much money does the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative spent in order to place advertorials about personalized learning in ed-tech publications like Edsurge ? Alphabet is, of course, the parent company of Google.

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” “‘ Happiness 101 ’ Courses Are a Necessary Stop-Gap for the Campus Mental Health Crisis,” says Slate. Via The New York Times : “Turn Off Messenger Kids , Health Experts Plead to Facebook.” Sponsored by the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative , of course. So time for some friendly PR, I guess.