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'Lost in the Cracks' Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth

Edsurge

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter. They were not at the juvenile facility center.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary became one of five schools in the Dallas Independent School District to pilot personalized learning in 2015-16, principal Lisa Lovato said she and her team grappled with decisions on granular issues, such as “How long should it take a kindergartner to log into a computer?” What can that look like? When Dan D.