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How robots could help chronically ill kids attend school

  • Written by Veronica Newhart, Ph.D. Candidate in Education, University of California, Irvine
imageToo sick to attend school in person, but perfectly able to participate with a robot's help.AP Photo/David Duprey

Over the past century, American schools have integrated an ever-more-diverse group of students. Racial integration is most prominent, but it’s not just Native Americans, blacks and Latinos who have been brought into public...

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