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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

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If you’re looking for a definition of personalized learning in the Glossary of Educational Reform, you’ll learn that: Personalized learning means addressing the distinct learning needs of each student with the help of different instructional approaches, educational programs, and learning strategies and experiences. . Key takeaways.

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What researchers learned about online higher education during the pandemic

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Kameshwari Shankar watched for years as college and university courses were increasingly taught online instead of face to face, but without a definitive way of understanding which students benefited the most from them, or what if anything they learned. Credit: Paul Bersebach/MediaNews Group/Orange County Register via Getty Images.

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OPINION: As we eye post-pandemic life, it’s time to unclog the pipeline between education and work

The Hechinger Report

The good news is that bridge builders — including nonprofit civic groups, economic development agencies and businesses and educators — have shown in recent years how to bring the right parties together to make change. Related: Where education systems stumble grassroots groups step in to raise success rates. They had to.

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Progress in getting underrepresented people into college and skilled jobs may be stalling because of the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Community and business groups around the country share the same fear. Experts say that this means dropout rates, which had been declining for more than a decade, will likely start to rise again. Credit: John Greim/Loop Images/Universal Images Group via Getty Images. How can we work together to fix it?’ ”. We’re just triaging.”

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Keeping students engaged who by definition have had trouble sticking with school is a challenge. The organization also has established partnerships with local businesses and other community groups. And all instruction is delivered one-on-one or in small groups. This is not an online school where we don’t see kids.”.

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How one district solved its special education dropout problem

The Hechinger Report

The district’s class of 2010 had a 73 percent graduation rate for students in special education and a 13 percent dropout rate — double the dropout rate for the student body overall. The high dropout rate for students with disabilities is a pressing national problem. With that comes low self-confidence, he added.

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How a Chinatown school is trying to bring more diversity to theater

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Asians were also the group least likely to be cast in roles that did not call for a specific race. She noted that she learned public speaking from a course during college, but that her elementary-school aged daughter is already able to speak confidently in front of groups. percent of all roles, though Asians are 5.6 percent of the U.S.

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