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Pearson’s Connections Academy Launches New College and Career Prep Initiative

eSchool News

HOBOKEN – Pearson , the world’s leading learning company, announced today that Connections Academy , its K-12 online school program will expand its slate of college and career readiness initiatives for middle and high school students. Credly is a Pearson business.

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Can Competency-Based Education Demonstrate Mastery Across a Lifetime? #DLNchat

Edsurge

Crisp and other #DLNchat -ters see the growth of CBE and its relevance to employers supported by the expansion of online learning. Within higher ed and between higher ed & industry. Many #DLNchat -ters agreed that digital portfolios were one way to show skill mastery, but needed to go further.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.”

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