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Using Hybrid and Blended Learning to Promote Student-Centered Classrooms

Waterford

13] Usually, these projects are completed by individual students rather than by a group or class. It could involve digital media as well as offline resources like classroom makerspaces or library books. This means that students can work at a rate that is most comfortable for them, which is useful for all learners.[11].

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Online course creator Edgenuity claims that its math course led to an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests at Altamont High School in Utah.

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Traveling to the African Diaspora to prepare black students for college

The Hechinger Report

She stuffed earbuds into her ears, selected a song from the X-Men: The Last Stand score, then twisted around to survey the group. The three of us walked back toward the group together. The Garifuna people are a mix of three different groups who met and intermingled on the Caribbean island of St. Endiah nodded in approval.

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Developing Systems for Effective, Equitable Education for All Students

edWeb.net

Pringle said that the NEA is currently working with the FCC on how to get increased investment in the E-rate program because, through that program, dollars can be distributed in an equitable manner. Amanda Karhuse has served as the director of advocacy for the National Association of Secondary School Principals (NASSP) since 2006.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The Wall Street Journal : “For-profit education company Apollo Education Group Inc. ” The company in question: Dipont Education Management Group. Via Inside Higher Ed : “New report finds big-time college football players at wealthiest programs graduate at rates lower than their nonathlete male peers.

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How the federal government abandoned the Brown v. Board of Education decision

The Hechinger Report

North Smithfield Manor has long been zoned for Gardendale schools as part of the district’s integration efforts, and Williams had planned her life around sending her children to Gardendale High, where more than seven out of 10 graduates enroll in college—one of the highest rates in the district. You are trying to take that from them.

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Education Technology and the Promise of 'Free' and 'Open'

Hack Education

According to the Babson Survey Research Group, which released the last of its annual surveys of online education this year , “more than one in four students (28%) now take at least one distance education course (a total of 5,828,826 students, a year-to-year increase of 217,275).” last year to 63.3% percent to 11.3 percent to 11.3

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