Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “There’s a Reason the Purdue - Kaplan Deal Sounds Too Good to Be True.” Can Electrical Stimulation Help Us Learn?”

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Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. ” asks The New York Times Magazine. Via Edsurge : “Why Donald Graham Sold Kaplan University to Purdue for $1.” Via The Verge : “Elon Musk-backed OpenAI is teaching robots how to learn just like humans do.” Good job, team.).

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 13, 2017

” Via Edsurge : “ Betsy DeVos Visits Bay Area Public School for a Lesson in Personalized Learning.” Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” ” Roy Moore has just been elected Alabama ’s new Senator. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

I know it’s trend to criticize keynotes and lectures and claim that they’re terrible ways to learn. It’s a great story, particularly if you want to wield that factoid along with a product pitch for more “active learning” – like clicking on things. This is the “PayPal Mafia.” Who tells it?

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Hack Education

MARCH 9, 2018

In addition to the anti-First Amendment supporter Thiel, Jackson also name-dropped her connections to David Horowitz , a long-time advocate for silencing left-learning professors on campus, in order to get her job. ” Via The Conversation : “ Purdue-Kaplan deal blurs lines between for-profit and public colleges.”

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