Yesterday, the Gates Foundation, Facebook and College Summit co-hosted the second annual education-focused hackathon at Facebook’s Menlo Park campus. The event brought together education experts and some of the world’s best developers. Twenty-four teams spent the day brainstorming and building apps that will help make the college-going process easier to understand and navigate, especially for low-income students.

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Today, the Gates Foundation and Facebook teamed up once again to host HackEd 2.0. This education-centered hackathon brought together talented developers to create unique college-going apps for low-income and first generation students. I was thrilled to serve as a judge at the event.

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Whatever else one may think about MOOCS, their vast popularity proves, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that very many people want – really, really want – more not less higher learning.

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If college is the engine of our nation’s economic development, then we need a lot more fuel in the tank. America is neither producing enough college graduates to sustain a robust workforce, nor fulfilling its national promise of economic opportunity for all.

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