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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge. Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains.

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Civil Rights Groups Sue DeVos Over Title IX Policies.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A group of former ITT Technical Institute students reached an approved settlement Wednesday that would allow them to participate in bankruptcy proceedings with the institution’s parent company.”

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “A bipartisan group of influential U.S. ProPublica looks at the lobbying group the Home School Legal Defense Association : “Small Group Goes to Great Lengths to Block Homeschooling Regulation.” Charter school-backed Nick Melvoin unseated school board president Steve Zimmer.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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After all, Amazon knows how to run online marketplaces; Amazon knows how to sell texts. The book packaged the ideas he’d developed during his time in the Blair Administration and at McKinsey & Company on how to successfully manage policy reform efforts. MOOCs are, no surprise, their own entry on this long list of awfulness.

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” These headlines just kill me. Via The 74 : “How an Online Personalized Preschool Experiment Could Change the Way Rural America Does Early Education.” ” More MOOC data in the “research” section below. Donors Revealed.” million total.

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He’s a partner at Founders Fund, which has invested in Knewton, AltSchool, Uversity, ResearchGate, If You Can, Upstart, Declara, and Affirm. Testing, Testing… “ Common Core testing group wages aggressive campaign against critics on social media,” according to The Washington Post’s Valerie Strauss.

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Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Ohio Governor John Kasich , a Republican, on Wednesday signed into law legislation – opposed by faculty groups – to lift the state’s ban on guns at colleges and universities. Jose Ferreira is stepping down as the CEO of Knewton. ” The Trump Administration. .”