Because there appeared to be no viable path to providing each student with their own personal tutor, Bloom called on educational researchers to “find methods of group instruction as effective as ...

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I worked for Pat Suppes at Stanford from 2004-2012, and am a research colleague of Carolyn Rose and Sreecharan Sankaranaran, who are co-authors of some research cited in this piece. Imagine a private ...

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