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MARCH 2, 2020

One Shanghai school she knows asks teachers to give students their lessons and 48 hours to complete them. His time as a blended learning instructor in Taos, N.M., For some of them, the school really is their family,” he says. “So So we’re trying to fill that void.” Other students, however, are struggling.

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Schools Students Assignments Testing 218

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NOVEMBER 1, 2018

Rogers Elementary is one of 10 “wall-to-wall” personalized learning schools that recently emerged as part of an initiative at Dallas ISD—one of the largest school districts in the country, serving 157,000 students. The data only represents one class in the high school, which was in its first two years of existence.

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Learning Math Elementary School Elementary School 167

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MAY 22, 2017

Portfolios also highlight learning’s natural progression. For instance, a high school freshman might undertake a service learning project that lasts until his graduation. His portfolio would highlight his project’s development, its revisions, and its completion as evidence of learning.

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Authentic Assessment Game-Based Learning Learning Evaluation 122

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JUNE 25, 2018

Nearly ten years ago, I started my career in education as a math teacher at a new alternative high school serving over-age, under-credited youth in New York City. My students were labeled “at-risk” of dropping out because they were 16-21 years old and previously unsuccessful in high school.

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Exams Achievement Curriculum Math 137

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Where we have installed our system—mostly in universities right now, but in a growing number of high schools—we’re getting a 700 percent increase in students interacting with the system. Today, Echo360 technologies are used by millions of students in approximately 11,000 classrooms.

Study 165

Study Lecturing Assistive Technology Exams 165

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SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

”­. — All That We’ve Learned: Five Years of Working on Personalized Learning. Silicon Schools Fund got started in 2012 by Brian Greenberg, a former high school principal and John Fisher, heir to the Gap fortune, with the idea of finding ways to scale promising charter schools.

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Schools Beliefs Exams Blended Learning 121

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JULY 18, 2017

These are just a few of the challenges facing Lane Moore, principal at Bentley High School in the Wolf Creek Public School district. Like many small rural high schools, Bentley has also been challenged by a lack of resources and declining enrollment.

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Schools Coaching Social Studies Mobile Devices 141

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OCTOBER 13, 2016

We now routinely norm our grading practices around selected student work to ensure that all students are held to an equally high level of academic rigor—one that we hope will adequately prepare them for the challenges of an Advanced Placement exam or a college-level government course. Who will be next to join us?

Teaching 146

Teaching Social Studies Essay Exams 146

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AUGUST 10, 2018

The 8th grade just received their own profiled laptop since the school was deploying a blended learning/personalized learning initiative and the 1:1 student laptop was a key project. I know they’ll have a great time attending high school and college. Helping My Daughters Prepare for the ACT Exams.

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Teachers Exams Middle School Middle School 68

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JANUARY 7, 2019

Where we have installed our system—mostly in universities right now, but in a growing number of high schools—we’re getting a 700 percent increase in students interacting with the system. Today, Echo360 technologies are used by millions of students in approximately 11,000 classrooms.

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OCTOBER 3, 2019

Jerard Briscoe is away at school. He studies for GED math exams. I just put my mindset like I’m really at school,” he says. I went through and found people who already had a high school diploma or GED to fill out their FAFSAs,” Lopez says, referring to the federal forms to apply for financial aid. “I

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