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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

That had largely been relegated to online math lessons, part of separate periods of personalized-learning time when students are free to work through computer-based lessons in any subject they chose, at their own pace.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. Karla Phillips, a policy director at Excel in Ed, told me that both personalized learning and charter schools have “flexibility” as their aim.

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Education's Online Futures

Hack Education

There was all that ink spilled circa 2010 that Khan Academy and “ flipped learning ” were going to “ change the rules of education ,” replacing in-class instruction with online videos watched as homework. . Meanwhile, the state has cleared the company to become a dropout recovery school.

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