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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

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Courtney Harritt, a spokesperson for ACCEL, wrote by email that OHDELA’s enrollment surge hit just as the school year started, creating operational challenges, and that ACCEL is making changes after taking over the school from another company in 2018. She wants to see online learning taken out of the hands of for-profits altogether.

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Schools lead the way to zero-energy buildings, and use them for student learning

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Katherine Cribbs, a second-grader at Discovery Elementary School in Arlington, Virginia, explores the online “energy dashboard” that tracks her school’s energy consumption and production. With a flurry of touch-screen taps, she explored the “energy dashboard” of Discovery Elementary in Arlington, Virginia.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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“Frankly, students didn’t lose anything, they just never had the opportunity to learn it,” said Allison Socol, an assistant director at The Education Trust, a nonprofit education research and advocacy organization. And so we always talk about it as ‘unfinished learning.’ ”. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

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Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem.

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Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US

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Related: Students can’t learn if they don’t show up at school In seven states, the rate of chronically absent kids doubled for the 2021-22 school year, from 2018-19, before the pandemic. James, 12, has autism and struggled first with online learning and then with a hybrid model. They encouraged him to return, and he did.

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Leading Teaching and Learning in Today’s World

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When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. Schuler is the 2018 Illinois and National Superintendent of the Year.

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The Technological Transformation of Districts to Benefit All Learners

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Equal access to online learning opportunities has continued to be a challenge, with the focus expanding beyond access to devices and hotspots and now including high-speed access for all students. Schuler is the 2018 Illinois and National Superintendent of the Year. Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment. About the Presenters.