The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

As the calendar flips to a new year, we had reporters sit down with students in four cities to give us their predictions of and aspirations for the future. Their visions represent a journey into cybersecurity and space travel, racism and robots. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Noelani Velasco Polley agrees.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 28, 2019

I shared the stage that day in Iceland with a person who gave their talk on how, in the future, robots will love us -- how they will take care of us in our old age; how they will teach our classes; how they will raise our children. Robots aren't coming for your jobs, but management may well be. Why do you? It's not a fact.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“ Tax bill reflects rift between many Republicans and higher education,” The Washington Post reports. Restores Pell Eligibility to Nearly 300,000 Students,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. ” “ Learning to code will eventually be as useful as learning Ancient Greek,” Quartz claims.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Still more education news from the UK: “ Sam Gyimah replaces Jo Johnson as universities minister ,” The Times Higher Education reports. Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. Lots of very excited and uncritical reporting on the new charter school on Oracle’s campus.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Here are some reports from her travels: Via Chalkbeat : “What is Betsy DeVos ’s ‘rethink school’ initiative all about? ” DeVos visited my hometown of Casper, Wyoming to give this speech where she spoke at the Woods Learning Center. .” The accreditor: the Higher Learning Commission.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 20, 2017

Senate ’s education committee on a party-line vote Wednesday advanced the nomination of Carlos Muñiz for general counsel at the Department of Education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Via The Hechinger Report : “ India tries coding camps, craft centers and all-girls schools to fight illiteracy.”

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