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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Related: The messy reality of personalized learning. A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school.

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Will giving greater student access to smartphones improve learning?

The Hechinger Report

At Fern Creek, where I’d estimate that at least 80 percent of students have smartphones, this would seem like a logical choice, given the relatively low numbers of tablets and computers we have available for student use in English, science, social studies and math classrooms. That matters. Here’s why.