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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Nearly two decades ago, the reporter Todd Oppenheimer documented the aggressive rise of emerging Silicon Valley technologies — personal computers and the Internet — in the nation’s public schools. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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Is California saving higher education?

The Hechinger Report

Researchers have documented widespread food and housing insecurity among students across the country, and the purchasing power of the federal Pell Grant, which can help cover living costs, is at a historic low. Lumina is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report, which co-produced this story.).

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

The Hechinger Report

The city itself has had a scrappy commitment to existence in its 123-year history, surviving the boom and bust of the timber industry that first gave it life and weathering the 21st century with a fairly steady population of about 2,500. Support for paddling is common in Collins, a place where families have deep roots.

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As feds pull back, states step in to regulate for-profit colleges and universities

The Hechinger Report

Only about one in five of 2016 graduates got full-time jobs in legal offices, the advocacy organization Law School Transparency reported. The standoff between the federal government and the states comes as DeVos has appointed several for-profit college industry executives to high-level positions overseeing their former companies and others.

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