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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

LIVE is an opportunity to gather with other member of the community in regular "live" web meetings. Saturday, May 2nd at 12pm CR20 LIVE Weekly Show - Featured Teacher: Lisa Parisi , Classroom 2.0 Details to join the webinar at [link]. You can follow us on Twitter at #liveclass20.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The Washington Post : “ DeVos rejects invitation to meet with former for-profit college students.” Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” Related, via Salon : “ Silicon Valley ’s $300M donation to STEM educatio n is not what it seems.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding. More on MOOC and online education research in the research section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “Who’s Meeting With DeVos ? Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” Department ’s Privacy Office to Take Effect in Early 2019.” Lots of Republicans , Few Democrats,” says Education Week.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via ProPublica : “Meet the Hundreds of Officials Trump Has Quietly Installed Across the Government.” Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” More on AB 165 from the ACLU , which also opposes the proposed law.

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Education's Online Futures

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And then there were MOOCs , of course, and all those predictions and all those promises about the end of college as we know it: “MOOCs make education borderless, gender-blind, race-blind, class-blind and bank account-blind” and similar fables. Vive la MOOC Révolution. Adam Medros became edX’s president and COO.

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