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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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There may be no better example of this in 2017 than “personalized learning.” “Personalized learning” has powerful advocates, least of which US Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos who talks about it as part of her broader initiative to “rethink school.” Manufacturing Trends.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Trump Administration Will Rescind Obama-Era Guidelines on Race-Conscious Admissions.” ” That’s Kaplan , in case you can’t keep all these for-profit disasters straight. This article on personalized learning has graphs so it must be true.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. The option to essentially swap student loan debt for mortgage debt is an expansion of a program launched last year with personal finance company SoFi.” Or something else?