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OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S. public education, starting now

The Hechinger Report

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

Take a look below at our proposed sessions, and click each link to vote now through August 25, 2017. VR for Good – Can “Cause-Based” VR Save Us? Join us to see how young people can be more than consumers of virtual reality, and to learn methods to empower students as producers of immersive experiences that make an impact.

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Mixing Automation and a Human Touch, New Software Helps Keep Students ‘On Task’

Edsurge

Pardo piloted OnTask in March 2017 at the Learning Analytics and Knowledge Conference in Vancouver. “We OnTask’s success depends heavily on the quality (and quantity) of student data available. Institutions can gather data from several sources, including digital and real-life interactions. “We

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Goodbye ABCs: How One State is Moving Beyond Grade Levels and Graded Assessments

Edsurge

Behind the scenes, teachers are collecting notes and student performance data on specific standards. One week we are looking at ELA data, one week math data, one week we're at just performance task data, and then the fourth week of the month we're looking at our projects,” Allen explains.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

The result was the adoption of “a learner centered, personalized, competency-based” approach that allows students to meet learning goals on their own terms, Rooney said. Related: Why a high-performing district is changing everything with competency-based learning.

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Project-Based Learning Is Just the Beginning

techlearning

In addition, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that has started to move to competency-based learning. We started by marrying the traditional, content-driven course work with performance-based assessment.

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To Connect Classes to Careers, Consider Erasing Grade Levels

Edsurge

With our new focus, we are one of 10 high school districts in Illinois that have started to move to competency-based learning. For us, it starts by marrying the traditional, content-driven coursework with performance-based assessment.