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How to teach and parent better in the age of big data

  • Written by Katie Headrick Taylor, Assistant Professor of Learning Sciences and Human Development, University of Washington
Summing up a student in numbers.Chatchai Kritsetsakul/shutterstock.com

At the parent-teacher conference, I sat across the table from my first grader’s teacher in a chair made for a 6-year-old. The teacher pointed to percentages scrawled in red ink. I looked and listened.

“This number,” she said, “is his Lexile score.”...

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