The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. Algebra is among the courses students can take online as part of a blended learning program instituted by the Illinois Department of Juvenile Justice.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 69

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Initially, K-8 teachers were asked if they wanted to opt in to blended learning environments, which mix online and face-to-face instruction. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 132

Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. ” Initially, K-8 teachers were asked if they wanted to opt in to blended learning environments, which mix online and face-to-face instruction. They showed some trepidation.

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Blended Learning Elementary Broadband Dropout 120

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Summit’s Basecamp is far from the only personalized-learning effort out there, but it’s among the most ambitious. Nineteen pilot schools participated in 2015; this year, the number skyrocketed, with 113 more joining the Basecamp ranks. Personalized learning is easy to bastardize. Kevin Bock, principal, Summit Denali.

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Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

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. Read more about Blended Learning. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 81