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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

But Altus administrators believe that their formula — using online learning without sacrificing one-on-one interactions between students and teachers — works. 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.

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

The Hechinger Report

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Other times, they’ve paid tuition in full, but owe money for overdue parking, library or housing fees. She was hospitalized several times and missed classes.

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How one city closed the digital divide for nearly all its students

The Hechinger Report

After schools went remote in 2020, Jessica Ramos spent hours that spring and summer sitting on a bench in front of her local Oakland Public Library branch in the vibrant and diverse Dimond District. In May 2021, Think College Now elementary students sit in class after returning to in-person learning. OAKLAND, Calif.

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In dark days of coronavirus, acts of generosity can restore students’ faith in higher education and each other

The Hechinger Report

These institutions are helping students find cost-free ways to leave campus, keeping dorms open for those who don’t have other options or identifying ways to enable less-wired students who can’t access online learning to still finish out the semester. She said she is “forever grateful.” Photo by Rashad Paige.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - Great, GREAT Keynotes - MiniCon - ISTE Unplugged! - Striving for Failure?

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Weekly Update April 15th The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man. - Eliot The technologies of the Internet and the Web are reshaping where, when, and from whom we learn--and even how we think about learning. National Library Week.

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Learning Revolution Free Events - The Conference - Next Up #Reinvent14 - Appreciative Inquiry and AERO

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Learning Revolution Project highlights our own virtual and physical events and those of our more than 200 partners. We also highlight good conversations about learning taking place between educators, learners, leaders, and others from the school, library, museum, work, adult, online, non-traditional and home learning worlds.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Buzzfeed : “The Education Department Quietly Invited Anti-LGBT Groups To A Father’s Day Event.” ” The groups, Focus on the Family and the Family Research Council , both advocate for “gay conversion therapy.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Facebook , an Online Learning Platform?”