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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

It feels natural to a generation groomed to presume that everything is calibrated to their needs and wants — whether it’s online shopping, news or math homework — and raised with smartphones in their hands. Software can also integrate student data into teacher programs to help them track progress in ways unthinkable several years ago.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Anxiety over the influence of technology in schools, as in our lives, is an old story — but one made painfully acute by the glowing smartphone on which you may be reading this article. apps and software, with some classes much more tech-reliant than others. Aziz, Maggie told me, “was in trouble every day” at his previous school.