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UTAH SCHOOL PARTNERSHIPS PROVIDE MODEL FOR EXPANDING EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES

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Recently, with the support of the Utah Legislature and groups like the Utah Private Schools Association, he has made some great strides. In 2011, Stephenson championed the Statewide Online Education Program, which was originally passed to increase access to quality, individualized online learning options for students attending public schools.

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In Elementary School, Many Teachers Have a Shaky Grasp of Math. Can Preparation Programs Change That?

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The list of explanations ranges from a math-avoidant culture to schools difficulties hiring and keeping talented teachers, a job that seems to have become harder postpandemic. Now, a new report suggests that teacher preparation programs underemphasize math instruction at the elementary school level. That has consequences.

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Online Teaching Is Improving In-Person Instruction on Campus

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Face-to-face instruction is no longer the gold standard." — Steven Goss, chair of Management and Technology in the business programs at NYU’s School of Continuing Studies Actually, the phenomenon predates the pandemic. My own experience teaching at The New School, a small Manhattan college, supports this style of instruction.

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?Online Courses Shouldn’t Use Remote Proctoring Tools. Here’s Why.

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In fact, when the option between taking a course online or in-person is provided, studies show students are more likely to stay in college. The goal of increasing online and blended course offerings is closely aligned to campus goals of improving student success.

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K-12 Tech Innovation News

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Because of these new technologies used in education during the pandemic, today, students who are home on extended illness-related absences, those who are traveling, or those who are otherwise unable to attend in-person school don’t have to worry about missing entire days or weeks of learning.

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Does Online Education Help Low-income Students Succeed?

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Students enrolled in two-year, as compared with four-year schools, look very different, with about 60 percent in community colleges drawn from the bottom two rungs of the most economically disadvantaged families, while most students at four-year colleges are from the country's most financially secure ones—a widely acknowledged disparity.

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Don’t Call Them Test Companies: How the College Board and ACT Have Shifted Focus

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Admission to these schools is a zero-sum game, and there’s just no agreement as to who should get these slots.”. Admission to these schools is a zero-sum game,” he points out, “and there’s just no agreement as to who should get these slots.” Nicholas Lemann, author of The Big Test. I didn’t know how to say it.

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