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June 27, 2018 09:35 pm PDT
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The Gates Foundation spent $775m on a Big Data education project that was worse than useless
Kudos to the Gates Foundation, seriously: after spending $775m on the Intensive Partnerships for Effective Teaching, a Big Data initiative to improve education for poor and disadvantaged students, they hired outside auditors to evaluate the program's effectiveness, and published that report, even though it shows that the approach did no good on balance and arguably caused real harms to teachers and students. (more…)
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