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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. But a lack of clear definition or understanding around what personalized learning is, exactly, has made it difficult for educators to envision and implement the practice. Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. We definitely do try to go that extra step to make those children feel just as comfortable and just as supported and let them know, ‘You can be successful even if you don’t have the same stuff at home that another child has,’” Parker says.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Education Dive : “ West Virginia considers shutting down public colleges.” ” That’ll definitely bring back the coal jobs. Immigration and Education. (And And some related humor from McSweeney’s : “Quick Facts About the Silicon Valley Microschool That’s Disrupting Education.”).