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Lexia Learning’s Founder, Robert Arthur Lemire, Dies at Eighty-Nine

eSchool News

BOSTON (June 23, 2022) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, is saddened to announce that the company’s founder, Robert A. Lemire created Lexia Learning in 1984 after watching his son struggle to learn to read. Today, the company serves more than 5.5 About Lexia Learning.

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What Does ‘Personalized Learning’ Look Like? Video Series Aims to Go Beyond Hype

Wired Campus

An education blog whose authors believe there’s too much hype around “personalized learning” technology has posted a series of video case studies about the trend, hoping to help get beyond overheated rhetoric. “We look at what’s working and what’s not.” ”

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Digital Learning in Organizations

Learning with 'e's

Cover design by Kogan Page My new book will be published on April 3 by Kogan Page. The book is aimed at those working as learning and development professionals in industry, but will also be of interest to any, and all, those working in the world of learning technology, knowledge and education. Unported License.

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

Miller’s first graders are a case study in the scale, depth and unevenness of learning loss during the pandemic. Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading. Credit: Jackie Mader/ The Hechinger Report. These are called whisper phones.

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Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet?”

The Hechinger Report

They’re among the 10 “talent themes,” or strengths, used to underpin learning in the school district here. Starting in preschool, teachers try to spot students’ natural talents; by kindergarten, each child’s top strengths appear on a “personalized learning plan,” a new type of report card. But what is it, exactly?

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Tech & Learning Leadership Summit: Winds of Change in the Windy City

techlearning

Following the tour, the extremely knowledgeable team at LEAP Innovation led us in a variety of roundtable discussions about their strategies and solutions for embedding true personalized learning in schools. For more information about upcoming Tech & Learning Leadership Summits, go to www.techlearningleadersummit.com.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” I was fascinated by it,” he said. “I The state ramps up.

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