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10 districts that have seen big blended learning success

eSchool News

Edgenuity highlights schools, districts implementing blended learning. As schools and districts try to better meet the needs of students with different learning styles, blended learning programs are becoming increasingly popular. Charlotte Mecklenburg Schools has a commitment to ensuring success for every student.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

The Jaquelin Hume Foundation’s mission is to accelerate the implementation of high quality blended/personalized learning in America’s schools. Then in 2005, I had an epiphany. Seventeen plus years ago when I joined the Foundation as its executive director, the mission was much different. So we were off and running.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Learning in one-to-one laptop environments: A meta-analysis and research synthesis. First, a finding of negative effects would have and should have sounded a clarion call on the use of laptops for learning; however, the study found small positive effects in the main and also in many (but not all) academic subject areas. Warschauer, M.,

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In this New Hampshire high school, internships shape the future of learning

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. In the nearby town of Swanzey, Brad Hinkel, 17, does a lot of sweeping up for a shop called Full Throttle, but he also gets to work on engines and learn how the motorcycle and ATV business works. New Hampshire did this, for all schools, in 2005.

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To build a New Hampshire learning community, the community must join with teachers and students

The Hechinger Report

That makes it difficult to fulfill her vision that working at actual jobs with adults in the community will help students learn their competencies. Related: Under the hood of personalized learning: A New Hampshire teacher of the year explains. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Just who are the people behind today’s educational software?

The Hechinger Report

In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software. February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. It would be the ultimate in personalized education, enabling children to learn exactly what they needed to learn at exactly the ideal pace.

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States can change the way they think about education, but will they?

The Hechinger Report

A New Hampshire student shows one of his assignments to his mother, biology teacher and math teacher during a personalized learning meeting. Related: NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past? Photo: Emily Richmond for The Hechinger Report. That’s a tall order from states.