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OPINION: Creating better post-pandemic education for English learners

The Hechinger Report

For years, in many schools across the country, English learners have regularly been pulled out of mainstream academic courses in order to receive segregated, English-only language instruction away from their English-dominant peers. Not only do U.S.

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

The Hechinger Report

He’d made honor roll before the pandemic hit, but ended the 2020-21 school year failing all four courses, Murphy said. She wants to see online learning taken out of the hands of for-profits altogether. logged into CASC classes every day but seemed increasingly disengaged and didn’t complete most of his work, his parents said.

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Report: The 4 models of blended learning in action

eSchool News

A new paper by advocacy and policy org iNacol explores how blended learning is being used in practice and traces its history from 2008 to today. Drawing from research from Clayton Christensen, the report outlines four blended learning models: rotation, Flex, A La Carte, and/or Enriched Virtual.

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

The Hechinger Report

And Shayla Savage, a middle school principal, said that when her students returned to in-person learning this spring, she noticed differences beyond just their math and reading progress compared to previous years. “We Even with the physical aspect of school, the learning loss is real all across the board.”.

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She has ‘the heart of a nurse,’ but can she overcome obstacles to her degree?

The Hechinger Report

“No matter how much I studied, I was failing,” Hernandez said, recalling the pediatric and medical-surgical care course that almost felled her. “I Hernandez had persevered through a difficult pregnancy, the demands of children, a job as a home health care aide and her other tough courses. I was just so frustrated.”.

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Should you build your own LMS?

eSchool News

Districts, in turn, must decide whether to build out their own online content platforms, farm it out to a learning platform provider like FuelEd (formerly Aventa Learning) or K12, or take a hybrid approach. This is better than saying, ‘You’re an algebra teacher, so go build us an [online] algebra class.’”.

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States can change the way they think about education, but will they?

The Hechinger Report

A New Hampshire student shows one of his assignments to his mother, biology teacher and math teacher during a personalized learning meeting. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter. Related: Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills. That’s a tall order from states.