Doug Levin

MARCH 19, 2017

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. It isn’t even good direct instruction."

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Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

This from the school district that is still reeling from a major student data privacy breach. Tagged on: March 8, 2017 The History of the Future of E-rate | Audrey Watters → The decision by the new FCC to rescind its report on E-rate raises plenty of questions about the future of the program under President Trump.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security. To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools. And “free” doesn’t last. But new technology hasn’t made it easy.

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