Crunching data to figure out the best way to teach each student

For years, educators have wrestled with the "Achievement Gap," that gulf between the top-performing students and those at the bottom. They aren’t worried about the kids at the top; they will do fine. The ones at the bottom are the ones most likely to become a government statistic — and not in a good way.

The New York Times recently held its Schools for Tomorrow conference in where this issue came up, and part of the discussion centered around whether data analytics could be used to break up the old one-size-fits-all way of teaching.

by Andy Patrizio

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