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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

The Hechinger Report

In the meantime, Crawford said, the boys were provided with laptops and Google Classroom access. In the 2015-2016 school year, Black students lost 103 days of learning per 100 students, 82 more days than their white peers. She denies making this request and says she sought legal help to get them back into school.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. The state’s largest district, in Providence, has dramatically increased its spending on web-based instructional programs, from $158,000 in the 2011-12 school year to $928,000 in 2015-16, the latest data available.

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Hack Education

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Via The Outline : “ Google ’s featured snippets are worse than fake news.” Google is acquiring machine learning contest site Kaggle. Remember the Thiel Fellows ?