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Engaging All Learners: Expanding High School Options for Success

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High School collects a diverse group of students into a large learning community, but it also prepares teenagers for a future as variable as any we can imagine. Yet, the one-size-fits-all model persists in many high schools. Could we expand high school options to guarantee every student’s success?

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Sal Khan’s New Online School Wants to Make ‘Mastery Learning’ Global

ED Surge

For 50 ninth graders, showing up to school this fall meant taking part in an experiment. The students had enrolled in the latest effort by Sal Khan, founder of Khan Academy, the online tool he started by making videos on YouTube that is now used by hundreds of districts in the U.S.

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9 Best Online Homeschool Programs

The Maker Mom

Sometimes public or private school curriculums don’t give kids the individual attention necessary to thrive and excel. With online homeschooling, children can learn independently at their own pace. Online homeschooling is wide in scope, and there are all kinds of accredited programs for K-12.

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Why Blended Learning Fits Your Class, 3 Issues to Think About, and 5 Easy Ways to Begin

Ask a Tech Teacher

When the Internet arrived, I — as did my colleagues — adopted it mostly for two reasons: 1) research — in place of the library, and 2) rote drills, such as supporting math practice. What used to require school buses and lots of time now is accomplished more effectively for less money through the Internet.

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Grading in my Discrete Mathematics class: a 3x3x3 reflection

Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

This worked out really well since students got access to helpful resources and a break from time pressure, and I got more explanations of reasoning which led (in my view) to better data about student learning. Others had great internal struggles with emails and discussion board posts, owing to their bad experiences in online school.