The Hechinger Report

JUNE 27, 2020

Greenville schools have some of the highest school dropout rates in the state, and Johnson also viewed staying at home as necessary to defend her children’s chances of living an easier life. “I Widespread lack of broadband access complicates learning. I do what I can, whenever I can, for my children,” she said. Credit: Terri Johnson.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

(Underscoring how precarious this labor is, an adjunct at the school lost her teaching contract one week after the Chronicle story was published, after she defended LGBTQ rights in a post on Facebook.). Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school. broadband privacy rules.”

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “A divided federal appeals court on Wednesday upheld a lower court’s ruling that a Minnesota community college was justified when it kicked a student out of a nursing program because of Facebook comments administrators deemed to be unprofessional and threatening to fellow students.”

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ FCC votes to negate broadband privacy rules.” ” Via The MIT Technology Review : “Big Questions Around Facebook’s Suicide-Prevention Tools.” ” Via Real Clear Education : “ K–12 Predictive Analytics : Time for Better Dropout Diagnosis.”

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Education MOOC Company Pearson 40

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?”

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