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RAND links personalized learning to gains
At a South Carolina school that’s experimenting with personalized learning, sixth graders plan a recipe during math class. Photo: James...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 13, 20172 min read


Billionaires, here’s how to fund education
Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg and his wife Priscilla Chan will spend hundreds of millions of dollars a year to fund “whole-child...

Joanne Jacobs
Jul 6, 20172 min read


It’s the teaching, not the technology
Teaching — not technology — drives success at blended-learning schools, writes Thomas Arnett, research fellow of education at the Clayton...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 28, 20172 min read


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Joanne Jacobs
Jun 20, 20171 min read


Internet isn’t rotting kids’ brains
The Internet isn’t changing kids’ brains, writes cognitive scientist Daniel T. Willingham in an excerpt from The Reading Mind on...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 20, 20171 min read


Are schools being Googlified? Don’t believe it
In How Google Took Over the Classroom, a front-page New York Times story, Natasha Singer “implies something deeply sinister is occurring...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 19, 20172 min read


Personalized-learning model goes national
Milpitas Unified, a school district near San Jose, is using the Summit Learning Plan in several schools. At Pomeroy Elementary, 6th-grade...

Joanne Jacobs
Jun 8, 20172 min read


How your brain beats Google
Google is all very well, but you still need your brain, writes cognitive scientist Dan Willingham in the New York Times. The more you...

Joanne Jacobs
May 28, 20172 min read


How Google won the education market
Google, with its low-cost Chromebooks and free classroom apps, now dominates the education technology market, reports Natasha Singer in...

Joanne Jacobs
May 16, 20172 min read


Chinese students know anyone could be watching
Thousands of schools in China “are installing webcams in classrooms and streaming live on websites that are open to the public,”...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 29, 20172 min read


Laptops in lecture class: Grades go down
Using a laptop to take notes in a college lecture classes is linked to lower grades — especially for weaker students — in two new...

Joanne Jacobs
Apr 4, 20171 min read


Alexa, how will voice bots affect kids?
Mattel’s Aristotle baby monitor is billed as “the Amazon Echo for kids.” “As millions of American families buy robotic voice assistants...

Joanne Jacobs
Mar 6, 20172 min read
Teachers like snow days too
In a paean to snow days, Mary Morris, who teaches at Rush Strong School in Strawberry Plains, Tenn., turns Adele’s “Hello” into “Snow.”...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 14, 20171 min read


Video trike for toddlers: More screen time!
Fisher-Price’s new Think & Learn Smart Cycle is designed for screen-addicted toddlers, reports the New York Post. The $150 kiddie...

Joanne Jacobs
Jan 7, 20171 min read
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