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Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Her teacher has embraced competency-based learning, which asks students to take more control in the classroom. The reform model is known by several different names, including proficiency-based education. The state’s boomerang confirmed for many critics that proficiency-based education was a failure. MELROSE, Mass.

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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. There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Um, they do.) It’s that their parents are opting them out of exposure to these technologies.

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

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From 2011 - 2015, 2Rev shifted their work to focus on assisting schools, districts and states with building future of learning models and helping those models succeed and scale. Since 2012, all of 2Rev’s offerings provide a blended experience, including face-to-face sessions as well as online learning opportunities.

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Why Flipped Learning Is Still Going Strong 10 Years Later

Edsurge

Of course, the flipped movement still has its critics. Early this decade there was perhaps no one person—not even Bergmann or Sams—more associated with flipping the classroom than Sal Khan, due in no small part to the more than 140 million views his Khan Academy videos had racked up by 2012. All of the students took a sigh of relief.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Chalkbeat : “With union’s blessing, students at 15 schools in the Bronx will take courses taught remotely.” ” Navitas is a for-profit education company that runs courses in Australia (and elsewhere). Via The Mercury News : “Turn schools into teacher housing ? ” Immigration and Education.

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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

They get frequent updates on which skills they’ve learned and which ones they need to acquire. Mastery-based learning, also known as proficiency-based or competency-based learning, is taking hold across the country. Mastery-based learning, of course, has its critics.

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A school once known for gang activity is now sending kids to college

The Hechinger Report

84 percent of this Chicago high school’s students graduate on time and 52 percent of them now go to college, an 11-point increase from 2012. Ocon describes lesson plans that were based around presenting content and then giving quizzes and tests at predetermined intervals. A student who got an A was assumed to have learned something.

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