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JUNE 8, 2018

“ Khan Academy launches free Official LSAT Prep ,” says the Khan Academy blog. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. Via The Hechinger Report (and related to a lot of the goings-on in the local education news section above): “ How one test kept New York City high schools segregated.”

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MAY 19, 2017

DeVos is the former chair of the American Federation for Children, which advocates for school choice policies, such as tax credit scholarships and vouchers. ” Edsurge profiles MEDSKL , which is like Khan Academy but for medical school. ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. ” Go, School Sports Team!

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SEPTEMBER 9, 2016

“ Telcel customers can now access Khan Academy free of data charges on mobile apps and es.zero.khanacademy.org thanks to partnership with Carlos Slim Foundation and Telcel,” says Khan Academy. Knewton has partnered with WebAssign. Edsurge officially announces its new, expanded focus , Edsurge Higher Ed. .

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

” “ Khan Academy introduces something big for little learners,” says the Khan Academy blog. ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. (Reminder: according to Betteridge’s Law of Headlines , “Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.”).

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JUNE 22, 2018

” Via The Hechinger Report : “ Louisiana ends policy that held thousands of students back a grade or more.” ” Via The Washington Post : “Are Betsy DeVos ’s policies exacerbating racial inequities in student debt ? ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. ” (So yeah. .”

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NOVEMBER 24, 2017

“Will Reversal of FCC’s ‘Net Neutrality’ Policy Help or Hurt Schools?” Schools should consider the ways in which their own social media surveillance re-inscribes these sorts of violent, nationalist policies. ” Education Dive profiles Khan Academy’s Khan Lab School. (It

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OCTOBER 20, 2018

First, the role that corporations and philanthropists play in shaping education policy is not new. Khan Academy was going to change everything. My favorite ludicrous claim remains that of Knewton’s CEO who told NPR in 2015 that his company was a “mind reading robot tutor in the sky.” ”).

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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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JANUARY 12, 2018

” It’s pretty terrible to report on how a “ President Oprah ” would shape education policy and not talk about how she has actively promoted pseudoscience. But maybe a lot of education policy is based on pseudoscience, so that’s why we can just let that slide… Via Chalkbeat : “President Winfrey?

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JUNE 29, 2018

” “ Torn Apart / Separados ” – “A rapidly deployed critical data & visualization intervention in the USA’s 2018 ‘Zero Tolerance Policy’ for asylum seekers at the US Ports of Entry and the humanitarian crisis that has followed.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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APRIL 28, 2017

Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” Via Edsurge : “ Khan Academy ’s New ‘Teacher Aid’ Tool Goes for a Test Drive in Southern California.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Education Politics. Davis on the DML Central blog.

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FEBRUARY 17, 2017

” The group in question: the Council for National Policy. ” Via Univision : “How White House advisor Stephen Miller went from pestering Hispanic students to designing Trump’s immigration policy.” Citing Border Policies , Safety.” ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Grace Hopper.”

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AUGUST 11, 2017

” Chalkbeat on vouchers in Indiana : “Choice for most: In nation’s largest voucher program, $16 million went to schools with anti-LGBT policies.” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. Khan Academy, for example, had $27.9 . “Privileged Whites.” ” Holy s**t.

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DECEMBER 2, 2017

But I wanted to consider too why the stories we repeatedly tell about education and education technology were so fanciful – stories about impending disruptions and revolutions and robot teachers and brain zappers and so on. Khan Academy will revolutionize education. Why was so much ed-tech “fake news”?

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