Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Like any business, the edtech industry includes actors that prioritize profit. This is not a condemnation of edtech as much as it is an acknowledgement that edtech is a business.

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EdTech Dropout Advocacy Outcomes 312

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

Danusis and her teaching staff practice personalized learning, an individual-comes-first approach, usually aided by laptops, that has become a reformist calling card in education. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. It looks unlike any school I ever attended. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 99

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

. “Now that MOOCs are mainstream, where does online learning go next?” Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.”

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Coursera also brought on a new CEO : Jeff Maggioncalda, whose previous job was in the financial planning industry. “Faculty,” as this year’s ECAR study put it , “have a love-hate relationship with online teaching and learning. This is the part where someone always cites Arthur C. ECOT refuses to pay.

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MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55