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

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He’s more proud that he showed that an education provider could thrive without participating in the traditional system of federal financial aid. Borrowing a reporter’s notebook, he drew a diagram of the traditional system, where the dollars flow from the federal government to colleges, while debt flows to the student.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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.) And everyone clicks and rages and snipes all over again.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “John Behling, the new president of the University of Wisconsin System Board of Regents , said Friday that he wants institutions to recruit leaders from the private sector and otherwise ‘streamline’ the process for hiring chancellors and other top administrators. .” and from Hacker News.