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Want to Rethink Education After COVID-19? Creative Solutions Mean Taking More Risks

Edsurge

In 2005, Hurricane Katrina literally washed away the New Orleans public school system. In my entrepreneurial leadership in education doctoral courses at the Johns Hopkins School of Education, the pandemic converted online class discussions into real-time problem-solving sessions for students. Public education will never be the same.

Education 180
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Gale Launches New Accredited Online Adult High School Program to Public Libraries

eSchool News

Learners can select from more than 100 core academic, elective, and college-level courses entirely online. The program updates and launches new courses regularly. Additionally, Excel Adult High School is a candidate for accreditation the Middle States Association on Elementary and Secondary Schools (MSA-CES).

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Teachers of the world, unite. You have nothing to lose but your pain!

The Hechinger Report

It seemed an uncontroversial ask — of course I wanted his class to have the supplies they needed for the year. Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. In the run-up to a new school year, I was proud to contribute $100 to the parent teacher association at my son’s school for classroom supplies.

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Preparing Teaching Candidates for Blended and Online Environments

Fractus Learning

Elementary, middle grades, and secondary teaching candidates at Lenoir-Rhyne University have the option of pursuing a track in blended or online learning as part of their teacher preparation program. These courses include blended methods and technologies for blended learning environments. Purposeful Modeling. In The Field.

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Held back, but not helped

The Hechinger Report

Now, after realizing that academic stragglers who were retained frequently didn’t receive the support they needed, the state is changing course. Most students lost months or even years of school time after Katrina hit in 2005. Teachers told us, ‘Oh, of course, that’s a Katrina effect.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.

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May 31 - Interview with James Bosco on Digital Media and Participatory Learning

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He obtained a bachelor’s degree in elementary education from Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania in 1961. Most recently he served as the WMU Coordinator for the “Kalamazoo Promise” which began in November 2005. Toward Keeping the Promise of ICT in Schools” (Dublin,2004); “Building New Schools” Sydney, 2005.)'