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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

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Blended and online learning is increasingly in demand by students. A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc. .”

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Overdue tuition and fees — as little as $41 — derail hundreds of thousands of California community college students

The Hechinger Report

Wilson, 47, started taking courses in 2019, a few months before the pandemic hit and just before he lost his job as an elementary school music teacher. Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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.) – for individualizing instruction using real-time data from an engaging adaptive learning tool to boost elementary classroom performance. Orestimba High School (Calif.) – for creating a new way for students to study and explore their interests via access to online courses at a rural school with a 100 percent graduation rate.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

The Hechinger Report

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

The Hechinger Report

Hayden, typically an A or B student, has had difficulty making the transition from elementary school to middle school online. He was never a frequent user of computers, instead playing video games on a handheld device, and has found adjusting to the school’s online learning platform challenging.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests.

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Are the challenges of Puerto Rico’s schools a taste of what other districts will face?

The Hechinger Report

This story also appeared in The Guardian The flooding last fall that devastated the home of Deishangelxa Nuez Galarza, a fifth grader in this coastal area of southern Puerto Rico, also closed her elementary school, El Coquí, for three days while staff cleaned out a foot of muddy water from every first floor room.