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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. If every child had a computer or iPad, she could log into a customized cyberclassroom and learn at her own pace. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Via The Verge : “Teachers weigh in on Apple ’s push for more iPads in school.” ” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

I’m also curious how this news – again, I’m not sure two closures are really a “trend” – will affect student loan startups. “ Are iPads and laptops improving students’ test scores? “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” Robots and Other Ed-Tech SF.