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Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ Texas , a Prized K–12 Market , Approves Wave of Instructional Materials.” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). ” Via The New York Times : “ Facebook Used People’s Data to Favor Certain Partners and Punish Rivals, Documents Show.”

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” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”). 1 after an investigation found chapter members repeatedly used racist , homophobic and anti-Semitic slurs , and then ostracized a black member who told them to stop, according to documents released by the university.” ” Go, School Sports Team! million total.

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Via The Seattle Times : “A cellphone belonging to the man who claims he shot and wounded another man in self-defense during a demonstration last month at the University of Washington had been wiped clean of data before being seized by police, according to search-warrant documents filed in King County Superior Court.”