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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

STUDENT-CENTERED LEARNING Another term for personalized learning, but tending to emphasize the needs of individual students rather than the goals of the teacher, school or district. MASTERY-BASED LEARNING Another term for competency-based learning.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) The charter school chain was already developing a personalized learning platform to manage its competency-based learning practices when Facebook stepped in , offering to help the software it called Basecamp. Common Core State Standards.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

They want them at school learning. In perhaps a reflection of where online learning is headed, both Bagley and Grover now run blended-learning schools that they say offer the best of both worlds — the personalization of an online school with the in-person interactions of a traditional school.).