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SXSWedu 2017: Ones to Watch and What to Know

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Public Private Partnerships - The K-12 Funding Gap : Many inequalities in the American education system can be attributed to massive funding gaps between schools. and insights into how edtech can help schools support individualized learning. And now, many schools are turning to private-public partnerships to fill those shortages.

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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

The Hechinger Report on personalized learning : “The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed.” ” Via NPR : “Preschools In Ghana ’s Capital Challenge Call-And-Response System.” ” Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The British government releases the results … of its new three-tiered rating system of teaching quality at universities.” Via Buzzfeed : “ Betsy DeVos Picked A Student Loan CEO To Run The Student Loan System.” Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A Pennsylvania judge has banned fraternity Pi Delta Psi from the state for a decade, a punishment for a hazing death in 2013, and an unprecedented step likely to rock the national Greek system.” More on the for-profit formerly known as Kaplan University in the online education section below.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The New Yorker : “ Georgia ’s Separate and Unequal Special-Education System.” ” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). Gotta keep that MOOC hype alive.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

For nearly 30 years, Medicaid has helped school systems cover costs for special education services and equipment, from physical therapists to feeding tubes. ” The Department of Education has rehired student loan debt collectors fired by the Obama Administration: Enterprise Recovery Systems and Navient-owned Pioneer Credit Recovery.

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