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PROOF POINTS: Fixing online credit recovery remains elusive

The Hechinger Report

A December 2021 McKinsey report predicted that an additional 1.7 Online credit recovery programs were a big driver of improving high school graduation rates, which soared from under 70 percent in 2007 to over 84 percent in 2016. Just putting a kid in front of a computer is not the best way to learn. million to 3.3

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Need a Substitute Teacher? Try an ELF Instead

Edsurge

A report from the Center for American Progress estimates that U.S. In 2007, a trio of Harvard researchers found that “even 10 days of teacher absences can have an impact.reducing, for example, students’ math achievement by 3.3 The ELF empowers students to set the pace and path of their own learning. teachers in 2011.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Ushering in a new model.

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Carnegie Learning Gets a Makeover After Private Equity Investment

Edsurge

Carnegie Learning currently offers online math courseware for middle, high-school and college students, along with accompanying print textbooks as part of its blended-learning programs. In 2005, EMC was acquired for $44 million by private equity firm Wicks Group, which later acquired JIST in 2007.

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Can public schools replicate the Mooresville model for digital learning success? Former superintendent Mark Edwards says they can

The Hechinger Report

The leader of the district’s digital learning efforts, Mark Edwards, has served as superintendent of the 6,000-student school district since 2007. Edwards recently announced that he will be leaving his post to serve as senior vice president of digital learning at Discovery Education, based in Silver Spring, Maryland.

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5 Trends to Watch in 2011

The Electric Educator

Blended Learning is the combination of face to face and online instruction. The Pew Internet & American Life Project reports that "the rate at which Americans went online with their handheld on a typical day increased by 73% in the sixteen months between the 2007 and 2009 surveys."Both

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Apps: a call for nominations and a round-up of review ources

NeverEndingSearch

Since 2007 Jane Hart , Founder of the Centre for Learning & Performance Technologies (C4LPT) , has been creating the most wonderful lists of tools based on international survey input from educators, experts, instructional designers, consultants, developers and vendors. Follow her @alicekeeler. Follow her @Catlin_Tucker.

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