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‘Back to the Dark Ages’: Education research staggered by Trump cuts

The Trump administration’s dramatic strike at U.S. education research had been underway for months before Mark Warschauer learned that his own work would become a casualty.

The renowned education professor at the University of California, Irvine, had spent years studying how the newest technologies can be used to improve English language instruction. His latest efforts , funded through the National Science Foundation, aimed to create a series of bilingual Spanish-English e-books that would use artificial intelligence to guide young readers through each text and prompt them with questions.

But in the last week of April, he learned that the supporting grant for the project had been canceled, a

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