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Hack Education Weekly News

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How George Mason Became Koch ’s Academic Darling.” Is Teaching Second-Graders How to Ride Bikes. The New Yorker profiles Sphero ’s learn-to-code toy for kids but says dumb things about Seymour Papert’s Logo so I’m not sure why I’m even linking to this. ” “D.C.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The Department of Education has released its newly proposed guidelines for school accountability. “ Key Tensions in the Field of Learning Analytics ” by Bodong Chen. ” Via NPR : “Teaching The Intangibles: How To Ingrain ‘Grit’ In Students.” More via The New York Times.