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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” War, peace and Chromebooks. Before the Chromebooks, Mills had to borrow her grandmother’s computer.

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Personalized Learning: Mistakes, Moving Furniture and Making it Work

MindShift

District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” War, peace and Chromebooks. Before the Chromebooks, Mills had to borrow her grandmother’s computer.

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‘Backpacks full of boulders’: How one district is addressing the trauma undocumented children bring to school

The Hechinger Report

Still, between October 2018 and September 2019 more than 75,000 unaccompanied minors — children who arrived in the U.S. The school stocks several Spanish titles in the library, and Woodson encouraged the children to keep up their Spanish. Woodson says these small efforts help all students see there’s no language hierarchy.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” “Caution: Chromebooks ,” writes Gary Stager. ” Immigration and Education.