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Teacher shortages bring to mind the saying ‘necessity is the mother of invention’

eSchool News

As reporter Linda Jacobson noted in the article, online learning has long been used in schools for subjects they couldn’t otherwise offer. Calculus and Latin as examples. But even courses we think of as fundamental—physics, for example—have long been glaring areas where schools haven’t had qualified teachers. She cited A.P.

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What If We Measured Learning Through Skills Gained, Not Time Spent in the Classroom?

Edsurge

At the K-12 level, there’s been a push to create more flexibility in the school day for “immersive experiences,” like internships and hands-on projects, from players such as XQ Institute, the nonprofit supported by Emerson Collective that since 2015 has poured millions of dollars into efforts across the country to “rethink high school.”

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Pearson Efficacy Study Highlights the Challenge of Letting Students Retest

Edsurge

The Pearson Study In what was described as an effort to build transparency around their products, Pearson’s CEO, John Fallon, issued a directive for the company to run externally audited public efficacy tests on the firm’s third-party edtech applications.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

8 PM ET, March 27, 2015. Digital Promise will award up to ten school or district leaders who submit a response by March 27 with a $1,000 stipend for a trip to San Francisco, including workshops with leading software companies, in partnership with the Education Technology Industry Network. So do most ed-tech companies.

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The Canary in the Law School Coal Mine

Edsurge

Companies like LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer, which have created a do-it-yourself model for legal services, and others like Ravel and ROSS that improve lawyers’ research and productivity, have changed the profession and business models. What’s so punishing is that the good days are over. Or they could offer new credentials that prepare non-J.D.s

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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. In the mastery-based learning world, this is largely seen as a positive move.

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Has New Hampshire found the secret to online education that works?

The Hechinger Report

In January 2015, Duggan enrolled in New Hampshire’s self-paced Virtual Learning Academy Charter School (VLACS), joining about 200 full-time middle and high school students and about 10,000 part-timers from brick-and-mortar schools statewide who take VLACS courses a la carte. After all, I live with a perfect example.”.