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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Online games and assessments. According to a 2018 Education Week Research Center survey centered on U.S. While technology doesn’t aim to substitute teachers, it can facilitate their work and ensure that each student gets access to customized educational content and assessment methods to provide the best possible learning outcomes. .

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

There are many benefits of using learning analytics, as follows: Increase retention and performance: Learning analytics may be used to reduce dropout rates and increase students’ performance. La entrada Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective aparece primero en IADLearning. Benefits of learning analytics.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 percent (about 11,000 students) in 2018-2019. By comparison, the state of California reported a 12 percent chronic absenteeism rate among students in 2018-2019, representing 676,000 students. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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College students to administrators: Let’s talk about mental health

The Hechinger Report

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. The school also hired two intake and triage coordinators who screen students to assess what help they need.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

Overton’s placement in the college-level course with a companion course, called a co-requisite, is part of a developmental education redesign launched by the Alabama Community College System in 2018-19. percent in 2017-2018 to 73.66 percent in 2017-2018 to 66.37 Sides has a similar assessment at Northwest-Shoals.

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OPINION: Arne Duncan, the fallible narrator

The Hechinger Report

But I do read memoirs—most recently, How Schools Work: An Inside Account of Failure and Success from One of the Nation’s Longest-Serving Secretaries of Education (2018), by Arne Duncan. A federal evaluation found no effects of 12 for Life on students’ grade-point averages, the number of suspensions or the number of school dropouts.).

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

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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