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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. ” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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'Lost in the Cracks' Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth

Edsurge

In 2015, after the state passed a law requiring each local board of education to have a virtual option for students in grades 9-12, the Athens City School District created Renaissance. Most of them were dropouts.” “In They were lost in the cracks,” says Carter. They were not at the juvenile facility center.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

Photo: TARA GARCIA MATHEWSON/The Hechinger Report. Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Her schools is teaching students to set goals and take charge of their learning. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Rogers Elementary has recorded a spike in parent interest and incoming student transfers snice it embraced personalized learning. When Dan D.

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April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. Please share this newsletter with your friends and colleagues! Two Week Calendar Monday, April 20th at 8pm TL News Night LIVE!

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

“If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”. Their job is challenging enough without having to learn a whole new approach, Eastwood and Creeden recall hearing.