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Stephen Downes

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Take the concept of MOOCs (with star professors) and charter schools (with private funding and mandate) and combine them and you get this inevitable result: pop-star charters. "Armando Christian Pérez, a.k.a. the pop mogul Pitbull, is in a sixth-floor classroom of Sports Leadership and Management. It's a new charter school he is supporting just outside the rough Little Havana neighborhood where he was raised." Sigh. Now if we could only associate each "rough Little Havana neighborrhood" with a pop star, we're all set.

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