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All ninth graders study at the local 4-H center in this Maine district

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At the Telstar Freshman Academy in Maine, service learning is included as part of the curriculum. Bailey Fraser, 15 (left), and her stepsister Leah Kimball, 15, volunteer with Edible Bethel during their service learning block. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for the Future of Learning newsletter.

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How Daily Farm Work and Outdoor Projects Make Learning in High School Better for Teens

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Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report). Called the Telstar Freshman Academy, or TFA, it involves all its district’s ninth graders in a hands-on learning method that uses outdoor-based projects and community-building activities as ways to teach across several disciplines. Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report ).

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The "Liberation of Education" Online Conference Starts Today - I'm Speaking Twice

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learning Revolution is a conference partner for this event, which means that you can register to attend for free HERE. Win at School: illuminating how schools actually work and what winning at school really is: taking charge of one's own learning.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Live Show Today - The Exploding Trend of "Pandemic Pods" and Micro-Schools #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

This week, REINVENTING SCHOOL focuses on the spectacular rise in interest in pod schools--small groups of students studying with one or more teachers in an environment that is both similar to, and different from, traditional school. is the Founder, Directress, and Principal Consultant for Meridian Learning. Ring, M.Ed.

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2021:Year in pictures

The Hechinger Report

First grader Nevaeh Korsmo reaches for hand sanitizer while doing an online lesson at the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe learning center in Port Angeles. READ THE STORY: To serve kids in the pandemic, a tribe and a Washington school district create a unique learning space. Nursing students at Sacred Heart University.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Also Facebook ’s DC lobbyist, Joel Kaplan, who was sitting right behind Kavanaugh as he screamed at Senators. “ Learning Engineers Inch Toward the Spotlight,” Inside Higher Ed claims. “Learning Designers will have to adapt or die. million from Naspers and Learn Capital. million total.

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Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel

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She decried an Obama era policy forgive the loans of students defrauded by for-profit schools: “all one had to do,” she told a group of Republicans in September , “was raise his or her hands to be entitled to so-called free money.” We celebrate the benefits of choices in transportation and lodging.