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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. Consultants charged the district as much as $1,000 per day for their services, as recorded in former Washington Post reporter Dale Russakoff’s book, The Prize. Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. Probably not.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. As more teachers opted in to blended learning classrooms, they reported being able to learn more about each student. Middletown School District, a #DPLIS member, works to erase the look and feel of poverty: https://t.co/OcFbxT9ygG OcFbxT9ygG pic.twitter.com/QuZSJy3xw1.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” “ Richard Spencer , the white nationalist, has dropped his lawsuit against the University of Cincinnati,” Inside Higher Ed reports. And some related humor from McSweeney’s : “Quick Facts About the Silicon Valley Microschool That’s Disrupting Education.”). The Business of Financial Aid.