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Charter Schools’ Scary Future

In 2019, when West Virginia passed legislation that allowed for the creation of charter schools, it represented yet another feather in the cap of the school-choice movement. Nearly three decades after the creation of the very first publicly funded, privately managed school, in Minnesota, charters now educate more than 3.3…
bubmag
September 10, 2021
Computers in School

At the Math Olympiad, Computers Prepare to Go for the Gold

Reprinted with permission from Quanta Magazine‘s Abstractions blog.Computer scientists are trying to build an AI system that can win a gold medal at the world’s premier math competition.Photograph by Valerie Kuypers / AFP / Getty ImagesThe 61st International Mathematical Olympiad, or IMO, began yesterday. It may go down in history for…
bubmag
September 22, 2020
Computers in School

College Board Administers the First SAT Exam (1926)

SAT Reasoning Test The SAT is a standardized test for most college admissions in the United States. The SAT is owned, published, and developed by the College Board, a nonprofit organization in the United States. It was formerly developed, published, and scored by the Educational Testing Service which still administers…
bubmag
June 23, 2020
Computers in School

The Ed-Tech Imaginary

Audrey Watters on 21 Jun 2020 read I gave this keynote this morning at the ICLS Conference, not in Nashville as originally planned (which is a huge bummer as I really want some hot chicken) As I sat down to prepare this talk, I had to go back into my…
bubmag
June 21, 2020
Computers in School

Amputating Capitalism

“We fought a military war; our opponents fought a political one. We sought physical attrition; our opponents aimed for our psychological exhaustion. In the process we lost sight of one of the cardinal maxims of guerrilla war: the guerrilla wins if he does not lose. The conventional army loses if…
bubmag
June 19, 2020
Computers in School

Comcast extends free Internet Essentials offer through 2020

Budrul Chukrut/Getty Images For the most up-to-date news and information about the coronavirus pandemic, visit the WHO website. Comcast is extending through the end of the year its free Internet Essentials program to provide broadband service to low-income households with students. Comcast initially offered 60 days of free internet service to…
bubmag
June 18, 2020