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In 2018, Rutgers University made a move that hundreds of other universities before it had made: It switched its online learning platform from Sakai a free, community-sourced system to Canvas, which is owned by a company called Instructure.
The switch was significant: Now the university was paying hundreds of thousands of dollars a year for a product that didn’t have to be transparent about what it did with the information and data it was mining from its users. Such systems are constantly recording users’ interactions with it how long it takes a student to complete an assignment, for example, or her deleted words and keystrokes, and users’ IP addresses.
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Bernie Sanders Wants To Tax Wall Street To Pay For Free College
The senator and Rep. Pramila Jayapal are introducing legislation modeled after President Biden’s campaign proposals.
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Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) says that a higher education should be a right for all, not a privilege for the few.”
Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) is introducing legislation to make public colleges and universities tuition-free and debt-free for families making less than $125,000 a year, paid for with a tax on financial transactions.
Under the plan, which Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.) is introducing in the House, the federal government would pick up three-quarters of the cost of making public colleges tuition-free and states would pick up the rest. The legislation also makes community college free; invests $10 billion in historically Black colleges and universities, tribal colleges and other minority-serving institutions; and doubles the size of the maximum Pell Gran
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