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Khan Academy Wants to Make 'Mastery Learning' Mainstream. Will Partnering With Schools Help?

Edsurge

But then if we can make that a hook into mastery learning, maybe over the next decade we can make these ideas that we just talked about more mainstream. The other lever I think we have is working with the system itself, where we move to a competency-based world. I view competency-based learning as a form of mastery learning.

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How 2Revolutions is Helping Schools, Districts, and States Support Future of Learning Models

Edsurge

They created 2Rev as an education design lab—a place where designs for innovative learning models could be developed and tested. From 2008 - 2011, the company worked on projects spanning early childhood, grades K-12, higher education and the workforce, while simultaneously crystallizing its philosophy.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um, In 2011, Ning was acquired by “lifestyle” site Glam Media for around $150 million. Um, they do.)

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

The Hechinger Report

The logical extension of such policies – permitting students to take individual courses wherever they wish, by using online options – has already begun to take root in about a dozen states. It’s called “Course Access” or “Course Choice.” So far, only a tiny fraction of eligible students have enrolled for online classes.