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Via Nature : “One of the world’s largest science publishers, Elsevier , won a default legal judgement on 21 June against websites that provide illicit access to tens of millions of research papers and books. Via The 74 : “ Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Education in the Courts.

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“ Is Homework Compatible With Personalized Learning? “ No State Will Measure Social-Emotional Learning Under ESSA. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Publisher Elsevier has announced the launch of ScienceDirect Topics, an information platform that has been compared to Wikipedia.” ” asks Edsurge.

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Via Education Week : “Congress Budget Deal Bans New Gold-Standard Studies of Federal Vouchers.” ” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” ” Banning research on school vouchers ? Gee, I wonder why. Spoiler alert: no.).

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Meanwhile on Campus… Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Florida State Cancels Bundled Journal Deal With Elsevier.” ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “New study finds that ending SAT and ACT requirements results in more applications and more diversity – without any decline in graduation rates.”

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Elsevier has acquired SSRN , an online open access repository. " Via the MIT Technology Review : “Largest Study of Online Tracking Proves Google Really Is Watching Us All.” From iNACOL: “ Promising State Policies for Personalized Learning.” ” KickUp has raised $1.54 “Hostage.”

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Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” Via George Veletsianos : “A large-scale study of Twitter Use in MOOCs.” Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” Elsevier has acquired Plum Analytics. " No s**t. So there you go.).

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Chalkbeat on CZI ’s grant to the Woodrow Wilson Academy of Teaching and Learning : “‘ Personalized learning ’ comes to teacher training , bringing big ambitions and big questions.” ” Via the Google blog : “Learn with Google AI: Making ML education available to everyone.”