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

ED Surge

The new Khan World School pitches itself as a way for self-motivated students to break out of the traditional classroom. And its advertising materials emphasize the community component , with daily seminars, small group tutorials and peer tutoring. Enrollment in virtual charter schools has shot up over the last couple of years.

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Why Do Some Schools Get Better Quickly and Others Get Stuck?

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One of the places that I first encountered where I was like, ‘Oh, there's some kind of interesting teaching and learning here,’ was a charter school that I visited in Southern California, and they had adopted Google Docs relatively early and were making really great use of it. Teachers sort of have two spaces that they learn.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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(From left to right) Sixth graders Mia DeMore, Maria DeAndrade, and Stephen Boulas make a number line in their math class at Walsh Middle School in Framingham, Massachusetts, one of 132 “Basecamp” schools piloting the Personalized Learning Platform created by the Summit charter school network. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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Is the Post-Pandemic Era Ripe for Rethinking High School?

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By the lunch break, a seminar-style discussion about SDG 6 — clean water and sanitation — was well underway. Coolidge students and educators participated at a DC + XQ design event. And making schools more flexible is a top XQ Institute priority. Like, who gets to attend a redesigned high school and who gets left out?

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How do we know what learning will look like in the future? We don’t

The Hechinger Report

“We need to be honest, this is super new,” Mote told a packed audience during a session at the New School Venture Fund Summit on Wednesday, where she described how letting students learn at their own pace is transforming Brooklyn Lab School, a New York City charter school she co-founded in 2014, which has a waiting list of 1,600. “We