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In Utah, personalizing learning by focusing on relationships

The Hechinger Report

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. The high school graduation rate in Utah’s Juab School District was 78 percent in 2009. Subscribe today!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. The iPad would solve that,” he said. His idea was to hire great textbook writers to create digital versions, and make them a feature of the iPad. But if we can make the textbooks free, and they come with the iPad, then they don’t have to be certified. Alexa at School. “Do

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