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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

April 20th - May 4th, 2015 Two Week Calendar | Learning Revolution Events | Learning Revolution Blog | Partner Spotlight To subscribe to this newsletter, please sign up at LearningRevolution.com. All events are listed in US-Eastern Time. For a full calendar of all upcoming events and conferences, click here.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Some students reported finishing a course in two weeks. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. He likes the self-paced curriculum that allows students to complete a course in significantly less time than at a traditional school.

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Colleges must stop holding students hostage and release their debt

The Hechinger Report

Andre Perry/The Hechinger Report. We didn’t pay a parking ticket or a library fine, and our college refused to release our transcript. But imagine that a student’s debt went beyond failing to pay a library fine. The Hechinger Report receives financial support from Lumina. Many of us have been there.

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At this one-of-a-kind Boston public high school, students learn calculus in Spanish

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. And the dropout rate among the first Muniz cohort, the class of 2016, was just 2.5 Manyelis Peña presents during “Zona de Logros,” or “Achievement Zone,” an annual spring event at which Muñiz Academy students describe their best work from the year in Spanish and English.

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Home visiting in high school: Trying an intervention for toddlers on teenagers

The Hechinger Report

Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. Most” of the county’s 3,000 students have been exposed to stressful and traumatic events in the home, according to the school district’s superintendent, Carolyn Falin. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. Peggy Barmore for The Hechinger Report. HEMPHILL, W.Va.

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A year of personalized learning: Mistakes, moving furniture and making it work

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. District officials theorized that students’ disillusionment with the curriculum contributed to Vista High’s 10 percent dropout rate. With part of the grant money, Vista turned its library into a “learning commons.” Photo: Mike Elsen-Rooney for The Hechinger Report. “I

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

have been part of the “Horizon Report” for a while. Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. Analytics can only take into account events that provide a digital trace.