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OPINION: The pandemic gave graduating high school seniors new strength and resilience

The Hechinger Report

Online-schooling shoved students out of familiar classroom settings straight into independent, self-directed learning. That left students powering through learning challenges by texting classmates for help, forming Zoom study groups and capitalizing on free internet resources to help clarify difficult material. Dr. Jill Grimes, M.D.,

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Taking action is the ultimate goal of any learning analytics process.

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Chronically absent: Is quality education possible in juvenile detention in Mississippi?

The Hechinger Report

He had joined the band and learned to play the trombone, but he hardly ever got to play it anywhere. He was hardly in the door, he said, when he learned the principal wanted to see him. He says he could communicate but not empathize with his younger classmates. They weren’t on his level, he said. “Bored.”