Personalized Learning

Education news, analysis, and opinion about efforts to use technology to customize education to the individual student.

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Special Report Taking Stock of Personalized Learning
This report tackles the issue of personalized learning, arguably one of the hottest topics in education this year, and an educational concept that raises all kinds of questions and concerns about how students should learn in the digital age.
October 22, 2014
Kayla-Meeks Cook, a 6th grader, gets help from teacher John Williams at Whittemore Park Middle School in Conway, S.C. The students were using their iPads to pick out recipes and calculate ingredients as part of a skills task.
Kayla-Meeks Cook, a 6th grader, gets help from teacher John Williams at Whittemore Park Middle School in Conway, S.C. The students were using their iPads to pick out recipes and calculate ingredients as part of a skills task.
James Jason Lee for Education Week
Special Report Getting Personal
Faced with tougher state standards and new research on how children learn, more schools and districts have plunged into variants of personalized learning, or approaches to instruction that seek to better cater to students' individual learning needs. This special report explores that growing interest in personalized learning, looking at how related instructional initiatives (many of which are costly and technologically intensive) are playing out in the classroom and what solutions and challenges they pose for teachers and schools.
June 18, 2014
To help K-12 educators and policymakers make better sense of this approach, Education Week looked at the experiences of schools such as Belmont-Cragin Elementary in Chicago, where students like 13-year old Llocelin Rivera receive tailored instruction in the hopes of boosting performance and closing achievement gaps.
To help K-12 educators and policymakers make better sense of this approach, Education Week looked at the experiences of schools such as Belmont-Cragin Elementary in Chicago, where students like 13-year old Llocelin Rivera receive tailored instruction in the hopes of boosting performance and closing achievement gaps.
Alyssa Schukar for Education Week
Special Report K-12 Seeks Custom Fit
Schools Test Individual Digital Learning
March 17, 2011
Mayo Elementary teacher George Tudor uses Reasoning Mind, which is based on a Russian math curriculum, to work with his 2nd graders.
Mayo Elementary teacher George Tudor uses Reasoning Mind, which is based on a Russian math curriculum, to work with his 2nd graders.
Melissa Golden for Education Week