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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” He co-founded the company in 1999 with Maria Machado, who also got her start in the semiconductor industry before turning her attention to education. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Again and again, the media told stories — wildly popular stories , apparently — about how technology industry executives refuse to allow their own children to use the very products they were selling to the rest of us. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I

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Hack Education Weekly News

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now ranks near the bottom among 35 industrialized nations in math,” The Hechinger Report frets. Via the same publication : “Why America should care about its students’ lackluster performance on the global PISA tests.” ” “How Do American Students Compare to Their International Peers? .”