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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Read more: Why blended learning will become an educational norm. ” When, or if, this doomsday scenario arises for higher education, it will be a combination of the challenges we have examined thus far – costs of “campus-based” education, failing revenue streams, and expensive dropouts.

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3 Strategies to Combat Summer Learning Loss

Digital Promise

NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. For more information on the League of Innovative Schools, please visit our League map. Adjusting the academic calendar.

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Partnership aims to increase high school graduation rates

eSchool News

In an effort to help increase high school graduation rates, Edgenuity , a provider of online and blended learning solutions, has announced a partnership with the National Dropout Prevention Network (NDPN). Educators receive network membership to foster best practices, research-based solutions for at-risk youth.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Much of the pre-pandemic research into online higher education concluded that students in online programs did worse than students in in-person courses, with lower grades, higher dropout rates and poorer performance in subsequent classes. That makes it easier to objectively determine “who seems to benefit and who struggles the most,” Xu said.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

On a recent day, Wallace, now 17, sat quietly reading Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” and looking up information about the poem on a computer. 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. His new school didn’t offer sports.

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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. 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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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

Sophia Jones-Redmond, superintendent of the district, which serves students from ages 13 to 21, said that a blended-learning model has been a major factor in this success. Before 2012, he said, classes were routinely canceled, and when he did have them, he often learned information he had already covered in his neighborhood school.