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date: '2019-01-13'
title: 'The tech education con'
description: "Public education, like any institution, has to change with the times. Learning digital skills like coding should be part of any twenty-first century educational program."
tags: ['education']
---

**[Jacobin:](https://jacobinmag.com/2019/01/stem-coding-bootcamp-education-scam-philanthropy/)**

> Public education, like any institution, has to change with the times. Learning digital skills like coding should be part of any twenty-first century educational program.<!-- excerpt -->
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> But tech giants’ interest in remaking our education systems isn’t altruistic. We have to remain skeptical of their technological solutionism and tax-evading philanthropy.
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> As education is taken over by private corporations, with tech companies playing a key role, and the White House continuing to promote STEM as the only solution for students, we should ask: who benefits from a growing supply of reserve tech labor? Who wins from the nationwide push for STEM? And what is lost in the single-minded pursuit of this goal?
