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Audrey Watters. Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning Boston: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.

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Audrey Watters. Teaching Machines: The History of Personalized Learning Boston: MIT Press, 2021. 328 pp.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  15 July 2022

Justin Reich*
Affiliation:
Massachusetts Institute of Technology, MA

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