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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

Instead, we tend to excuse inadequate or unsavory outcomes as necessary growing pains in the pursuit of “innovation.” When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. We need to make a change.

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Ancora High School Partners with McGraw Hill to Launch New Online High School for Adults

eSchool News

The flexible, individualized and 100% online learning experience is open to learners aged 18 or older who have completed 9th grade. Ancora High School is an online high school that offers a Texas high school diploma and is accredited by Cognia. Learn more at www.ancorahigh.com.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

They suggest that online higher education may work better than pre-pandemic research showed, and that it is evolving decisively toward a combination of in-person and online, or “blended,” classes. On average, outcomes were especially bad for men, Black students and students who had fared poorly in their earlier educations.

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Online learning can open doors for kids in juvenile jails

The Hechinger Report

The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Illinois’ effort to bring online learning to juvenile justice facility classrooms is rare nationwide. The pace is much like online credit recovery programs, which allow students to retake an entire semester’s worth of failed classes in a matter of weeks.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It The report sought to gauge how the online lessons reached “struggling learners.”

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

The Hechinger Report

Academic outcomes in Puerto Rico are poor and have been on a steady decline since Hurricane Maria. Online learning was particularly challenging for Puerto Rican students. The poor outcomes are super frustrating,” said Díaz. On the math test that children all over the U.S. Because I see the potential in a lot of them.”

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A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 9 Edition)

Doug Levin

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

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