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AI-Powered Tutor Filling COVID Need for Students and Teachers

Tim Newcomb

At D.C.’s Ingenuity Prep, Personalized Learning Hasn’t Replaced Teacher Time; It’s Put the Focus Back on Small Groups

Emily Langhorne

Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Names Sandra Liu Huang New Head of Education; Champion of Personalized Learning & Interdisciplinary Collaboration Will Succeed Jim Shelton

Beth Hawkins

Watch: Inside Indianapolis’s Purdue Polytechnic High, an Innovative School Built Around Design Thinking That Offers a Direct Pathway to College

The 74

The Education Essays That Sparked Debate This Year: Our 19 Most Shared Columns and Commentaries From 2018

The 74

74 Interview: ‘The City Fund’ Founders Talk About Their New Campaign to Identify America’s Most Innovative Public School Systems and the First Metro Areas Where They’ll Be Investing

Steve Snyder

Summit Is Spinning Off Its Popular Personalized Learning Platform, Creating New Nonprofit to Take the Helm

Kate Stringer

Robin Lake: NYC Autism Charter School Solves for Complex Learners With Intense Dedication & Commitment — Personalized Learning at Its Best

Robin Lake

Educators & Experts Say Personalized Learning Is Not About Technology or Money but Leadership and Relationships

Emmeline Zhao

New Research: Despite Great Enthusiasm for Personalized Learning, Teachers Say Attempts to Innovate Are Often Stymied by School District Bureaucracy

Kate Stringer

Iruka: How 3 States Are Closing the Opportunity Gap by Bringing High-Quality Personalized Learning Programs Into Free Public Schools

Iheoma U. Iruka

$14 Million From Chan Zuckerberg Initiative Will Nearly Double Personalized Learning in Chicago Public Schools

Kate Stringer

Sketchbooks. Makerspaces. Student Startups. Inside America’s Largest Personalized Learning Experiment, How One Rhode Island ‘Lighthouse Laboratory’ Is Reimagining School

Kate Stringer

Analysis of Personalized Learning Programs in Chicago Shows That Strong Teacher Leaders, Not Technology, Key for Financial Sustainability

Kate Stringer

74 Interview: Richard Culatta on How to Do Personalized Learning Well — and Why It Could Be the Key to Narrowing a School’s Equity Gap

Kate Stringer

How an Online Personalized Preschool Experiment Could Change the Way Rural America Does Early Education

Carolyn Phenicie

5 Lessons Other Districts Can Take Away From Latest Rand Personalized Learning Study of Small High Schools

Beth Hawkins

5 Ways Personalized Learning Models Can Change Classrooms

The 74

Summit Charter Schools Launch America’s First Teacher Residency Training Program for Personalized Learning

Sarah Favot

Smith: 10 Lessons From Rocketship Education’s First Decade as a Pioneer of K-5 Personalized Learning

Preston Smith

300 Tutors, Working With Students 2 Hours a Day: One School Network’s Investment in Personalized Learning

Kate Stringer

Lake & Tuchman: Disability Rights Advocates Are Fighting the Wrong Fight on School Choice

Robin Lake & Sivan Tuchman

Mesecar: 4 Ways Tennessee Is Prioritizing Personalized Learning in Its New ESSA Plan

The 74

The 74 Interview: You Don’t Think Your Child Is Average & Harvard’s Todd Rose Doesn’t Either

Romy Drucker

12 Rhode Island Schools Vie for Chance to Become Their State’s 3 Personalized Learning Labs

Mareesa Nicosia

Personalized Learning for Every Student: How 2 Very Different School Systems Pursued a District-Wide Strategy

Beth Hawkins

Personalized Learning Boosts Math Scores, New RAND Study Finds — But Scaling Is a Challenge

Tim Newcomb

Mesecar — Personalized Learning Under the Every Student Succeeds Act: 3 States Now Leading the Way

Doug Mesecar

For a Truly Effective School Choice System, Have High-Quality Options in Every Neighborhood

Betheny Gross

Montessori Was the Original Personalized Learning. Now, 100 Years Later, Wildflower Is Reinventing the Model

Kate Stringer

Betheny Gross: Starting With the ‘Why’ in Personalized Learning

Betheny Gross

A Historic Literacy Effort in California Brings Personalized Learning to English Language Learners

Tim Newcomb

Betheny Gross — The Key to Effective Personalized Learning: Rigorous Content, Standards, and Experiences

Betheny Gross

Lake: Why Personalized Learning Will Ultimately Live or Die on Its Ability to Manage Change

Robin Lake

DeArmond & Gross: It’s Time to Help Teachers Generate and Use Their Own Evidence on Digital Tools

Michael DeArmond & Betheny Gross

Lake: Are We Personalizing Learning for the Students Who Need It Most?

Robin Lake

Fisher: Making Equity a First Principle of the Personalized-Learning Era

Julia Freeland Fisher

Will Personalized Learning Become the New Normal? Inside Rhode Island’s Statewide Tech Initiative

Tim Newcomb

Tennessee Bets Big on Personalized Learning, Launching Pilot Program & Eyeing Big 2020 Goals

Naomi Nix

Lake: At Last, a Court Says Kids (Like Mine) With IEPs Deserve a Top Education. But More Fights Loom Ahead

Robin Lake

Building the 3.0 High School: How Summit Basecamp Schools Pairs Teaching With Technology

Richard Whitmire

How a NYC Micro-School Is Rethinking Classrooms and Tests — and Using Projects to Inspire Learning

Rebecca Liebson

Teach to One: Inside the Personalized Learning Program That Bill Gates Calls the ‘Future of Math’

Tim Newcomb

At Seattle’s Summit Sierra High School, Special Needs Students Find Success

Beth Hawkins

Opinion: Why I’m Afraid of Personalized Learning

Lisa Hansel