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

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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. Most of them were dropouts.” “In This is very different,” says Brown, the new principal at Renaissance who came from a traditional middle school last May.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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Southwest Plains Regional Service Center (Kan.) – for giving dropouts and at-risk students an opportunity to earn a high school diploma and expanding access to online courses to hundreds of students across the state. For details about this year’s winners, their programs, and how they are using FuelEd solutions, visit [link].

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

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Each of us has seen headlines about an online school providing an unaccredited program that looks like a “diploma mill,” or a completely mismanaged school administration that was not prepared for high student mobility or other realities of online learning.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

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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. Students would not be recipients of lessons, but drivers of them.

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Don Kidd Joins Achieve3000 as Vice President of Strategic Sales

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He has established and managed partnerships with several notable organizations such as the Gates Foundation, National Dropout Prevention Center, Successful Practices Network, National Superintendents Association and American Association of School Administrators.

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