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Meet The Gates Foundation’s New Deputy Director in Higher Education

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Heather Hiles towers above most other edtech entrepreneurs. She began a long career in education, which included cofounding two social enterprise organizations (one of which helped get 4,000 women off welfare), serving as a Commissioner of San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education and starting two edtech companies.

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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secretary

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While Cardona has “not only the knowledge base, but the experience” for the job, one of his greatest attributes, according to Robles-Rivas, is his ability to find and surround himself with smart, capable people who can help him push his agenda forward. “He He is always looking for the best solution.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2011, the Mozilla Foundation unveiled its “Open Badges Project,” “an effort to make it easy to issue and share digital learning badges across the web.” But Amazon has since launched a new marketplace, Amazon Ignite , where teachers can sell not share their class materials. And I’d never gotten my Ph.D.

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