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OPINION: Using prime baseball season to strike out summer learning loss

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The platform uses social gaming, animation, video and other tools to teach and reinforce critical math, vocabulary, reading and study skills in ways that meet students where they learn today — on mobile phones, tablets and computers.

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Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years

The Hechinger Report

Offering accelerated combined bachelor’s and master’s degrees also helps keep undergraduates from leaving for graduate study; those who stay provide universities with essential revenue. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. It’s not a law or a commandment on the tablets.

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Professor hopes his quickie calculator will show low-income students they can afford a selective college

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During college fairs or campus visits, a college representative using MyInTuition can hand a student a smartphone or a tablet, allowing him or her to input familiar household income information and receive a likely financial-aid estimate on the spot. “I I have a Ph.D. in economics, I’m pretty good at this sort of thing.

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

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A recent study from EducationSuperHighway, a nonprofit that works with school districts to help close the digital divide, found that affordability was the largest contributing factor. When schools are closed, she said, students “still have to do their schoolwork; they still need access to the internet at home.”.

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The newest form of school discipline: Kicking kids out of class and into virtual learning

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In the meantime, the middle schooler would be left to keep up with her schoolwork on her own, on a district-issued tablet that Curry says would often lock her granddaughter out. Another study found that Latino students were more likely to receive disciplinary action than white students. She missed out on a lot of work, a whole lot.

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Who will Teach the Children?

EdNews Daily

The problem has grown worse as schools and teachers are forced to deal with an increasing number of nontraditional students (minority, impoverished, foster, homeless, autistic) who come from nontraditional homes (single parent, divorce, second or third marriage) and learn in nontraditional ways (via the internet, tablets, social media).

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” ” A follow-up from Cory Doctorow : “Deluded billionaire gives UC Irvine $200M to study homeopathy and ‘alternative’ therapies.” ” Immigration and Education. .”