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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” 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. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education Politics. Move along.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Jobs'

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.” That’s because the stories told this year to keep us hustling and to keep up imagining a certain kind of future are almost all about robots. Over and over and over and over and over and over and over again we were told “robots are coming for your jobs.” We must prepare preschoolers for an automated future.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Inside Higher Ed on “The New, Improved IPEDS.”

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Jeb Bush’s lieutenant governor, as assistant secretary of elementary and secondary education, the top post at the Education Department overseeing K–12 policy.” Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.

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