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Bringing Personalized Learning to Scale in a Large Urban School District

Education Elements

Personalized learning has captured the attention of many education reformers. Pathways can be viewed as magnet programs, innovative programs, career technical education programs, debate, dual enrollment, international and global studies, dual language programs, and advanced placement.

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‘Positive culture shock’ spells challenges and triumphs for Afghan teen students

The Hechinger Report

Lebanon High School, apart from her regular classes, she chose electives like global studies, business and political science — three of her favorite subjects. The educational structure was a stark contrast to what she experienced back in Kabul. “We We have more classes, we have more opportunities,” she said. At Carlynton, N.W.’s

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What happens when college students discuss lab work in Spanish, philosophy in Chinese or opera in Italian?

The Hechinger Report

Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Higher Education. Sophomore Abigail Reing’s food science major doesn’t leave enough space in her schedule for regular language study, so she took a course with a Spanish section. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update. Future of Learning. Mississippi Learning. The bad news?

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The students disappearing fastest from American campuses? Middle-class ones

The Hechinger Report

That will make it hard to pay for higher educations for their own kids at a time when many jobs require them, he said, creating a disturbing cycle. “As Greg Wolniak, associate professor, University of Georgia Institute of Higher Education. As the world upskills, we should be very concerned,” Strohl said.

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Refugee students languish in red tape as they seek to resume their educations

The Hechinger Report

Deep beneath the surface of a massive refugee crisis that’s the worst since World War II is the less well understood reality that tens of thousands of university students leaving Syria and other countries have had their educations interrupted — educations needed for those nations to rebuild if and when the conflicts in them end.

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Teaching kids how battles about race from 150 years ago mirror today’s conflicts

The Hechinger Report

As a result, African-Americans made huge strides in education, entrepreneurship and political power. To inform his lessons, Gorman chose a curriculum called Teach Reconstruction created by the Zinn Education Project, a collaboration between social justice education nonprofits Teaching for Change, based in Washington, D.C.

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From the archives: Already languishing in red tape, refugee students now may be barred altogether from U.S.

The Hechinger Report

Here’s a story from the Hechinger archives about the “lost generation” of refugees who are languishing in red tape as they seek to resume their college educations in the U.S. Many university-age refugees want to study in the United States, but only a tiny handful has succeeded. In Syria alone, from which 4.8