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How to program greater diversity among Mississippi’s computer science grads

The Hechinger Report

Makenzie, Mariah and Makayla are triplets who, by the age of 13, have created websites, programmed a handheld Raspberry Pi computer and given orders to a small, white robot called Sphero. This year, thanks to a donation from an MSU alumnus, they have expanded the residential camp to elementary school students.

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4 ways forward-thinking districts are inspiring more students to code

eSchool News

Nine thousand Highline students participated in the December 2015 “Hour of Code.” Administrators build in regularly scheduled coding for students in select elementary schools, with students utilizing Code.org curriculum to enhance and deepen their critical thinking skills. Give current educators the opportunity to get certified.

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Lessons from a virtual school exemplar

The Hechinger Report

A 2015 Stanford study that looked at the performance of students in online charter schools found that the majority lost learning equivalent to a standard 180-day school year. A robotics competition might draw iUniversity Prep students to Austin, for example, or a running club might gather for a race in Houston.

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

The Hechinger Report

KIPP Morial, a school in New Orleans East, exemplifies how the personalized learning trend rolled out in charters across the Crescent City. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. How personalized learning came to New Orleans.

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Learning Revolution Free PD - Angela Maiers Tonight - LOTS of 2014 Global Education Conference Updates - Proposal Deadline, Keynotes, and Volunteering

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Thursday, October 23rd at 3pm Webinar: Online Learning for Inclement Weather , Join the discussion! In this session, three districts will share how they implemented online learning options to make up snow days. See you online! For more information, click here. Register at [link].

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 11 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 19, 2017 Textbooks could be history as schools switch to free online learning | Philly.com → Garnet Valley is a district in the vanguard of a nationwide movement to ditch traditional textbooks for open-source educational resources on the web. That's a lot of computers.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

In tiny Foster, Rhode Island, teachers at Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School use high-tech methods to teach a largely rural, off-the-grid population. Down Route 6, not far from the Shady Acres Restaurant and Dairy, is Captain Isaac Paine Elementary School. Tammy Kim, for The Hechinger Report. PROVIDENCE, R.I.