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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. One high-profile version of this type of event occurred in Newark back in 2010, after Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg gave a matching $100 million-dollar donation to the New Jersey school district. Probably not.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Also via The Hechinger Report : “The future of proficiency-based education.” ” Digital Promise and Education Elements have released a “ toolkit ” on competency-based education. Via The New York Times : “ New York to Shorten Standardized Tests in Elementary and Middle Schools.”