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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. A gold mine of evidence,” a study she co-authored called it.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

The Altus network relies on a self-paced, independent study program and a personalized, blended learning model they’ve built up over a quarter century. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Most do the majority of their work online, though some choose to learn with a standard textbook.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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.) – for creating a new way for students to study and explore their interests via access to online courses at a rural school with a 100 percent graduation rate. About Fuel Education Fuel Education® partners with school districts to drive personalized learning and transform the education experience inside and outside the classroom.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. Students technically have access to hundreds of courses, but Jones-Redmond said the district focuses on math, language arts, social studies and science.

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Movie magic could be used to translate for the deaf

The Hechinger Report

“For kids, captioning is almost a waste of time,” said Harley Hamilton, a computer scientist at Georgia Tech affiliated with the Center for Accessible Technology in Sign (CATS) , a joint project of the university and the Atlanta Area School for the Deaf. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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Learning Technologies and Creativity in the Classroom

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Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. This was something we touched on in a recent blog post on a study that found that more than half of students in the US felt “bored” at school.) When students don’t feel engaged, their education suffers.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

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Compared to white and affluent students, low-income and minority students have less access to nearly every type of educational benefit. Some studies suggest achievement gaps that exist beyond the third grade are difficult to close regardless of the intervention. Ending Social Promotion. – Kylie Mollicone, third grade teacher.