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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via The New York Times : “ New Mexico Outlaws School ‘Lunch Shaming’ ” Via Buzzfeed : “ California Shows The Rest Of The Country How To Boost Kindergarten Vaccination Rates.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “How Open E-Credentials Will Transform Higher Education.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via Education Week : “ E-Rate , Other Universal-Service Funds to Be Transferred to U.S. Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF. I missed this news back in February: Chegg acquired RefMe. .” Via Education Week : “ ESSA Point Man Jason Botel to Leave Education Dept. Post, Sources Say.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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“To Save Students Money, Colleges May Force a Switch to E-Textbooks,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reported in 2010. The story examined a proposed practice: “Colleges require students to pay a course-materials fee, which would be used to buy e-books for all of them (whatever text the professor recommends, just as in the old model).”

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