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

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This is the edtech industry’s premier financial conversation, packed with more than 4,100 people and 350 CEOs. Maia Sharpley , who spent 9 years as vice president for strategy and innovation with Kaplan , is now a full partner with Learn Capital. Morning yoga, evening karaoke. No, it’s not a spa vacation.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Kaplan is closing Dev Bootcamp , a coding bootcamp it acquired in 2014. Speaking of predictions about the future of online education, EdTech Strategies’ Doug Levin pens part 2 of his look at Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn ’s prediction that “ by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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The implication, according to one NYT article : “the digital gap between rich and poor kids is not what we expected.” The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, Um, they do.) This product is a piece of s**t,” one doctor said.

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