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'Lost in the Cracks' Alabama District Brings Personalized Learning to Incarcerated Youth

Edsurge

The students in the blended version also take most of their courses online, but they occasionally meet in person for mentoring from a certified teacher or for clubs and sports. He also uses Mobymax, a software that boasts the ability to help students “find and fix” learning gaps in several subjects. Most of them were dropouts.” “In

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. Online learning offers educators access to a wealth of learning data to guide their teaching and assessment of student performance.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

This basic idea matters because even given current excitement around personalized learning, much of what’s declared fresh about it has been done for years. Differentiated instruction was conceived in the 1950s. We discuss their goals and what they are working on, and if they had an assessment we might talk about that,” she said.