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Where do Brainscape's certified MBE flashcards come from? (And are they legit?)

Brainscape

These instructors then scoured textbooks, past exams, and materials by top bar prep courses like BarBri, Themis, Critical Pass, BarMax, Kaplan to ensure that our MBE flashcards weren't missing any of the important concepts that others were covering.

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Struggling small colleges are joining the ’sharing economy’ — teaming up to share courses and majors

The Hechinger Report

Nearly two-thirds of high school seniors now say a degree is not worth the cost , according to a survey by the left-leaning think tanks New America and Third Way. Consumers today want to study subjects they see as leading straight to careers. Related: Facing an existential crisis, some colleges do something rare for them — adapt.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“ Purdue-Kaplan online university one step closer to reality,” the Journal & Courier reports. Jen Howard on “What Happened to Google’s Effort to Scan Millions of University Library Books ?” Wired argues that “ Jeff Bezos Should Put His Billions Into Libraries.” million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” Saxberg had previously been the Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan (and Edsurge, when covering the news , fails to disclose its financial ties to Kaplan ).

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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 NMC Horizon Report 2017 – the Library Edition. Via The Cambridge Student : “National student boycott invalidates National Student Survey data.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Wired on the project : “‘ ICE Is Everywhere’: Using Library Science to Map the Separation Crisis.” The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. ” There’s more immigration news in the courts section and in the “labor and management” section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

An op-ed in Inside Higher Ed from EAB’s Melanie Hoe : “What the Purdue-Kaplan Deal Means for You.” ” Via Education Dive : “The Purdue-Kaplan Earthquake.” ” Student workers at the University of Chicago’s library have voted to unionize. ” Fox.