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OPINION: How can teachers help students grapple with the chaos surrounding us?

The Hechinger Report

Even kindergartners have plenty of questions about the presidential election, the pandemic and the movement to end systemic racism. A look at the courses required by teacher preparation programs reveals scant attention to the broad social studies knowledge aspiring elementary teachers need to provide essential context to world events.

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This Texas college’s focus on mental health helps students work through trauma, stay on track

The Hechinger Report

The immune system disorder regularly bumps Maldonado’s heart rate to nearly double what it’s supposed to be. Counselors saw a drop in students using its services as the pandemic upended lives and moved courses — and the clinic — online. Paul Quinn returned to in-person learning in the fall of 2020.

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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Education Technology and The Age of Surveillance Capitalism

Hack Education

Google and Facebook are paradigmatic here, and Zuboff argues that the former was instrumental in discovering the value of behavioral surplus when it began, circa 2003, using user data to fine-tune ad targeting and to make predictions about which ads users would click on. I don’t buy it. There are still workers.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2011-2020: From Early Adopters To Mainstream Adoption.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Toppan, a junior at the high school, was angry that the administration hadn’t sought student input about the change, and worried that a switch to a 1-4 grading system, with a 3 the highest possible grade on some assignments, would hurt her chances of getting into a good college. I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”.

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

The Hechinger Report

As part of BDEA’s competency-based approach, all new students take a trimester-long course in which they study math, English language arts and science together. They are then placed in courses that match their skill levels — regardless of age or whatever letter grades they earned in the subjects at their previous schools.

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