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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning

Edsurge

This has been a goal of Simon’s since she joined Long Beach Unified in fall 2013. Distance learning began March 23. Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. But it has proven elusive.

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Revolution in Higher Education: chapter 2

Bryan Alexander

This chapter takes us from 2012 through 2013, following the expansion of MOOCs across American research-1 institutions and the breakout of Coursera, edX, and Udacity. DeMillo sees MOOCs as unbundling academic content, specifically extracting lectures and the possibility of assessment from the rest of university functions.

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

The Hechinger Report

The district relied on individual schools to call families, while its department of research, assessment and data conducted surveys at individual school sites to find out whether families had an internet connection and computer access. At 16, Kemish Rosales learned how to fix computers as an intern at Tech Exchange. for the nonprofit.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. If we can grab them at kindergarten and start to give them the skills that they need in order to be successful students,” says Creeden, “we have the potential to prevent that student from being a high school dropout.”.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

now live in poverty, a mark hit in 2013 for the first time in 50 years, according to the Southern Education Foundation. Overall, there is a risk that a “ digital learning gap ” is forming on top of the achievement gap that already exists. Some teachers also have students assess their own mastery of skills.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Learn about the resources that can help district leaders develop the next generation network infrastructure necessary to support multiple mobile devices on and off campus, the delivery of digital content, and administration of online assessments. Read more and register for this event here. Or sign up to be an Inpire Presenter !

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The messy reality of personalized learning

The Hechinger Report

Kristen Danusis, a former school psychologist who became the principal in 2013, tells me that many of her students live “off the grid,” in households that earn little regular income. Related: Blue-collar town leads Rhode Island’s tech-assisted learning revolution. Yet, inside Isaac Paine, tech abounds.