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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

At a time when learning is getting more personalized for each student, there is added pressure on teachers to deliver against the odds. The COVID-19 pandemic accelerated a sudden shift towards online learning not leaving teachers and students enough time to adapt to the new platform and technology.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.”. Like many alternative schools, The Charter School of San Diego allows students behind on credits to complete courses online at an accelerated pace. What you learn in a regular high school in a year, you could learn here in six months.” .

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. She struggled with online learning and began to face severe health issues. Such a program benefits colleges as well, by helping them boost enrollment and, ultimately, bring in more money from the former dropouts. “It

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Join this interactive session to learn how to get started with game-based learning with your own students.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. You don’t have a computer, you don’t have internet, you can’t even access distance learning,” Silver said. OAKLAND, Calif.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Rogers Elementary School here set a three-alarm fire in the library. Their changed view — and that of others who shunned Rogers and now want in — is driven by what seems to be a magic educational elixir: personalized learning. But personalized learning raises big questions about educational equity. But it left an impression. “My

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

Miscellaneous notes: DeMillo sees for-pay assessment as solving the MOOC dropout problem (1253). DeMillo traces a struggle in American universities between practical learning and liberal education, starting with the Morrill Act ( 1862 ) and Columbia University’s reinvention of the undergraduate curriculum (1126 et al).

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