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The Histories of Personalized Learning

Hack Education

” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s. Institutions face an enormous crisis today – one of credibility and trust, one that Chris Hayes identified in 2012 in his book Twilight of the Elites. Take your pick. Take your pick. Reveal your politics.).

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

. — At the beginning of every school year, April Johnson oversees distribution of the Covington County School District student handbook. Tucked into the first half of the handbook is a section titled “Corporal Punishment.”. This story also appeared in Mississippi Center for Investigative Reporting. And to justify it only on children?”