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Equity Is Not Just About Access. It’s About Success.

Digital Promise

This League of Innovative Schools meeting was focused on equity, and showcased how BCPS is making strides toward providing access and opportunity for all students. Over the course of three days, meeting attendees collaborated in working groups on topics like competency-based education, personalized learning, and maker research.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. Traditional universities will find themselves obsolete, unless they adapt.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

The leadership of NASSP is well aware of trends in and the value of connected learning and have created a learning experience that will meet the needs of all attendees. I have tweeted over the past couple weeks my excitement for the new structure of the NASSP Annual Conference.

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OPINION: As we eye post-pandemic life, it’s time to unclog the pipeline between education and work

The Hechinger Report

To meet those needs effectively, we need determined collaboration by numerous players in communities far outside the Beltway. Case in point: Mobile, Alabama, where civic organizations, industry associations and churches successfully leaned on public schools and higher education institutions to improve student success rates.

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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

The Hechinger Report

In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks , the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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

The Hechinger Report

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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Storefront Advising Programs Bring Free College Counseling Into Low-Income Communities

Edsurge

Students come here from miles around to meet—first-come, first-served—with advisers for help navigating all things higher education, from admissions tests to majors to meningitis shots. So Project GRAD went mobile. At a table with stacks of flyers advertising scholarships, a family confers quietly with a counselor. The advice is free.