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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

It was the latest big-fix trend in K-12 education, and Gist, a favored daughter of Silicon Valley philanthropists, offered up the nation’s smallest state as a laboratory mouse. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? Via Campus Technology : “2017 Ed Tech Trends: The Halfway Point.” ” asks the Pioneer Press.