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Pearson promises “personalization” through its “adaptive learning” products, for example. (It “Facebook Giving Virtual-Reality Kits to Every Arkansas High School,” Education Week reported in August. “‘Schoolifying’ Minecraft Without Ruining It,” NPR reported in June.

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.” In other Department of Education bureaucratic nightmares, “Dozens of Colleges’ Upward Bound Applications Are Denied for Failing to Dot Every I,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. The NAACP endorses OER. Testing, Testing… “Nation’s Report Card Finds Mixed Grades For U.S.

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” “Betsy DeVos Won’t Shed Stake in Biofeedback Company , Filings Show,” The New York Times reports. Via The Guardian : “ Trump bans agencies from ‘providing updates on social media or to reporters’ ” This ban has been targeted at scientists at the EPA and USDA in particular.