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Retrieval practice, CBE, and what we value regarding student learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

By doing so, schools will continue to reduce kids to proficiency scales, score reports, and individualized, dehumanized, numerical widgets in mechanistic, technocratic educational systems. It’s relatively easy to come up with pedagogical and data systems that help students recall and regurgitate a little better.

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

Neo LMS

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. . Video conferencing tools.

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The Secret to Preventing Community College Dropouts? Start With Middle School

Edsurge

In Tennessee, the education system made headlines a few years back when the state announced the “ Tennessee Promise ”—an initiative granting thousands of high school students the opportunity to attend two years of free community college. And so that's definitely happened with us. And now, adults can get in on the action, too. ).

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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

Related: Where education systems stumble grassroots groups step in to raise success rates. But it turned out that its school system had inflated its high school graduation rates, and few of those students who did finish went to college and earned degrees.

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Kids Don’t Fail, Schools Fail Kids: Sir Ken Robinson on the 'Learning Revolution'

Edsurge

“The problems tends to arise when kids go to school because the deeper they get in, the more they start to lose interest,” Robinson said, pointing to the United States’ large student dropout percentage as evidence that school—as a system—is failing students. education system can right itself. Sir Ken Robinson.

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How Partnering With a Local University Saved This School From Closure

Edsurge

This Educational Partnership Organization aims to curtail a trend of academic underperformance and high rates of truancy, absenteeism and dropout, which had plagued East High for a number of years. We’ve been able to use technology to identify where our student needs are academically and recreate a system based on that need.

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Can peer counseling programs bridge access gaps for youth? Experts say it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

And while peer support systems aren’t meant to replace trained adults equipped to handle severe issues, they can be a first line of early intervention and empowerment — though experts point out research on their effectiveness remains limited. Definitely more scalable options.”. We’re seeing much more digital remote options,” he said.