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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

“The bad news is we’re not seeing a lot of innovation or discussion around personalized learning,” said Claire Voorhees, national policy director for the Tallahassee, Florida-based Foundation for Excellence in Education, an advocacy group for personalized learning. Yet, that idea didn’t play out in most states’ first-year ESSA plans.

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How diplomas based on skill acquisition, not credits earned, could change education

The Hechinger Report

In lower level classes, some would have to repeat the whole course. By 2025, four additional subject areas will be included: a second language, the arts, health and physical education. Students must demonstrate mastery of pre-identified skills to pass a course. This year Payne doesn’t expect to lose Kylee or anyone else.

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10 years later, goal of getting more Americans through college is way behind schedule

The Hechinger Report

That’s the separate goal set out by the Lumina Foundation to achieve by 2025. Tennessee, for example, which famously made its community colleges free, is on target to have 55 percent of its residents possess certificates or degrees two years ahead of the 2025 deadline, outgoing Gov. Why haven’t other states had the same growth?”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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