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

Edsurge

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. Most of them were dropouts.” “In This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) 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. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. 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.”. OcFbxT9ygG pic.twitter.com/QuZSJy3xw1.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Read more about Blended Learning. “We saw it as a scaffolding until things got better — a short-term, possible solution,” Agnew recalled. appeared first on The Hechinger Report.

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Tagged on: March 3, 2017 Blended Learning for Quality Higher Education: Selected Case Studies on Implementation from Asia-Pacific | UNESCO Bangkok → A new report presents a framework and self-assessment tool developed to drive, sustain, and scale up blended learning.

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