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It’s Time To Unlearn & Relearn Learning

EdNews Daily

Our innate capacity to learn, to think, to create, and adapt endowed us with the evolutionary advantages necessary to become one of the most successful organisms on the planet. If you’re a trainer, you fight this process every time you engage a new hire, every time you learn a skill yourself, and every time you teach your child something new.

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Getting a GED while still enrolled in high school

The Hechinger Report

In New Orleans, the large number of dropouts who lack HiSET credentials drives the astronomically high count of so-called “opportunity youth.” Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. YEP got its start in 2004 as a re-entry program for teens involved in the juvenile-court system. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Why decades of trying to end racial segregation in gifted education haven’t worked

The Hechinger Report

In airy PS 64 Frederick Law Olmsted, in affluent, white north Buffalo, 22 would-be Arctic explorers wrestled with how to build a shelter if their team leader had frostbite and snow blindness. Buffalo educators hoped Eve’s new program would give more children — particularly children of color — a chance at enrichment and advanced learning.

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Is the effort to curb strict discipline going too far, too fast?

The Hechinger Report

Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. Enfield learned of principals skirting the new discipline policies by sending kids home without formally logging suspensions. Sign up for our newsletter. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Higher Education. Susan is a hero to me,” he said. But many teachers remain skeptical.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. The truth of it is, we know how to educate these kids. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands.