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Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund Partners with Discovery Education

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DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

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The team established a partnership with a local housing project where some of their chronically absent students live and coordinated attendance outreach activities, which included workshops to educate teachers, staff and guardians on the consequences of missing school. They also helped translate district communications into other languages.

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Fuel Education Honors Seven Programs for Transforming Education for Students

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.) – for improving graduation rates and meeting student needs by providing online options for credit recovery and supplemental learning. Orestimba High School (Calif.) – for creating a new way for students to study and explore their interests via access to online courses at a rural school with a 100 percent graduation rate.

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Alabama community college overhaul improves the odds for unprepared students

The Hechinger Report

The revamped program combined co-requisite courses — essentially one-hour workshops or seminars that give students additional time to practice basic skills — with a tiered placement model that sought to reduce the overall number of students placed into developmental education programs.

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Subscribing to college and other visions of higher education’s future

The Hechinger Report

If history is a guide, the flashiest notions being workshopped in these places won’t get far. Barnes & Noble Education already has an AI writing tool called bartleby write – named for the clerk in the Herman Melville short story – that corrects grammar, punctuation and spelling, searches for plagiarism and helps create citations.

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

They invoke Dewey and Freire and Montessori as guiding lights and take pains to emphasize, in almost liturgical unison, that personalized learning is not about tech — and that “tech is just a tool.” You have that concern: What are you trading for the free use of this tool?” (A There are no exceptions to this.”

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

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We''ve also just added information about the Invent to Learn workshop on Saturday with Gary Stager and Sylvia Martinez (which is the same day as our Global Ed event , but we''re magnanimous around here). Participants will engage in a variety of projects using modern tools and technology – the perfect way to get ready for ISTE.