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A school where you can’t fail — it just takes you longer to learn

The Hechinger Report

The rise of online learning has accelerated it, and school technology providers have been fierce advocates. In addition to fulfilling Common Core requirements, assignments are designed to help students learn critical thinking and workplace skills. The students at M.S. Photo: Kyle Spencer. 442, teachers said.

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A true gift from SHEG: DIY digital literacy assessments and tools for historical thinking

NeverEndingSearch

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.