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” Chalkbeat on vouchers in Indiana : “Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” ” The New York Times on “ mastery based learning ” : “A New Kind of Classroom: No Grades, No Failing, No Hurry.” ” Holy s**t.

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Via NPR : “ Wyoming School District Stalls On Transgender Student Policy.” Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” ” Funding and Acquisitions (The Business of Ed-Tech).

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DeVos is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, which advocates for school choice policies, such as tax credit scholarships and vouchers. ” “ Elsevier Wants $15 Million Piracy Damages From Sci-Hub and Libgen ,” says TorrentFreak. ” Education in the Courts. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. Via The NY Daily News : “ N.Y.

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More federal stuff: Inside Higher Ed on restructuring at the US Department of Education : “Proposed reorganization would eliminate office of under secretary, which oversaw higher ed policy for much of the Obama and George W. blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.”

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34 Percent Of Graduates Received A Diploma Against District Policy.” Elsevier on “The Augmented Researcher: What Does 2018 Hold for AI in Publishing ?” Via Chalkbeat : “ Rocketship becomes latest charter network to pull the plug on Tennessee ’s Achievement School District.”

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” And by “take on,” that means “investigating and suing universities over affirmative action admissions policies deemed to discriminate against white applicants.” ” More on Trump’s proposed immigration policies in the immigration section below. ” Make them learn to code , of course.