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Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. Can teachers figure out how best to use it?

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Kaswell — now in his tenth year teaching at MS 88 , a large middle school in the South Slope section of Brooklyn — has always been drawn to combining face-to-face instruction with online learning. But now he’s implementing a particularly intense approach to it, known as personalized learning.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

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Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. The rise of online learning has accelerated it, and school technology providers have been fierce advocates. He imagined a more holistic system that required students to demonstrate learning before moving ahead. The students at M.S. Photo: Kyle Spencer.

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“ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on Common Core And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching Common Core was one of Trump’s campaign promises. More on the future of Common Core from NPR. The Chinese online learning company has raised $40.14