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Why education is really a relationship business

eSchool News

For all our conversations about edtech and curriculum and funding and unions and building schools and transportation and testing and every other thing, education is about people. From the time I was 19, I worked in newspapers, then magazines, radio and television. More specifically, education is about relationships. Always fun.

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How a Billionaire’s Fellowship Spread Skepticism About College’s Value

Edsurge

The editor of Slate magazine at the time, Jacob Weisberg, called it a “nasty idea.” They only back companies led by college dropouts and people who never studied in higher ed. He wrote : “Thiel’s program is premised on the idea that America suffers from a deficiency of entrepreneurship.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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World Magazine on how Liberty University handles its student newspaper: “Papered over.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.” ’” Via Edsurge : “School’s Out for the Latest Y Combinator Batch, and Here’s What Its Edtech Graduates Are Up to.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” asks New York Magazine. Ed-Tech Magazine asks “How Diverse Is the Higher Ed IT Workforce ?” “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Data and “Research” Edsurge looks at the “ Board of Directors for 20 Best Funded Private US Edtech Companies.” ”). .”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via eCampus News : “The 2 edtech fields with the most potential under Trump.” Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” ” Via Edsurge : “Is Edtech Worsening or Righting Inequities in Education?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via ProPublica : “ For-Profit Schools Get State Dollars For Dropouts Who Rarely Drop In.” ” Via EdScoop : “ USC launches edtech research center focused on underrepresented youth.” ” This, from Edsurge , is pretty awful: “Why Edtech Executives Are Keeping a Close Eye on Preschool Demographics.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Unveils Free Online Tool for Rapid Evaluation of Edtech Products.” ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski. Via the New York Magazine : “The Death of Vine Makes the Internet a Worse Place.” ” Via Edsurge : “U.S. Education in the Courts.