What Went Wrong with L.A. Unified’s Digital Learning Initiative?

Center for Digital Education:  Jessica B. Heppen is a managing researcher at the Washington-based American Institutes for Research, where she serves as the principal investigator of the AIR's evaluation of the Los Angeles Unified School District's massive—and deeply troubled—digital learning initiative.
While most of the public attention on the LAUSD's since-aborted effort to give every student an iPad has focused on a rocky deployment and a procurement process that led to a federal investigation, the AIR also found big challenges inside classrooms.

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