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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

Finally, the authors themselves caution that the findings of this study should not be considered generalizable to deployments of tablets, desktops, smartphones or other classroom technologies, as those technologies have different affordances.

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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. New Hampshire did this, for all schools, in 2005. Read more about Blended Learning. The post In this New Hampshire high school, internships shape the future of learning appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Monadnock in this college and tourist town.

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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. What Slivka began thinking about in winter 2005 became an actual company the following winter, a startup that eventually became DreamBox.

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

The Hechinger Report

Related: Under the hood of personalized learning: A New Hampshire teacher of the year explains. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Read more about Blended Learning. Earlier this year, the Brutus Auto internship was one of three in which students were participating, out of 15 being offered.

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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. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Related: Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills. Some states got a head start.