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Most Popular EdSurge Podcast Episodes of 2019

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You can find us on Apple Podcasts , Overcast , Spotify , Stitcher , Google Play Music or wherever you listen. High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention? Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

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Instead, he bounced from one unfulfilling job to the next in the hospitality and restaurant industries. One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. A growing number of businesses are listening. billion in revenue last year.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

I kept thinking how much the physical setup of the classrooms resembled a Silicon Valley workspace — or is it that Amazon, Google and Facebook have tried to replicate grammar-school life? apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. We use Google all the time. There’s always big business.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Fines Google $5.1 Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” That is, the announcement from RealNetworks that they’re offering facial recognition software to schools for free. The Google Empire. Via The New York Times : “ E.U. ” Racist.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” The new software is supposed to get students ready for “the Salesforce economy,” whatever the hell that means. Google had a big media to-do this week. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Via Edsurge : “ Google and Digital Promise Reimagine Teacher Tech Training with New National Program.” ” Via Education Week : “ Google Launches $50 Million Effort on the Future of Work.” ” asks the Pioneer Press. ”). .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.” ” Credentialing and Competencies.