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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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Engage Students with Authentic Learning at Home

Digital Promise

As schools and districts across the country transition to remote learning, educators are seeking new ways to engage their students in powerful learning experiences at home. The students are loving it even more now because they aren’t able to see each other and socialize; seeing each other’s work there has given them a bright spot.”.

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

In educational settings, AR can be used in numerous ways to enhance teaching and engage students. Furthermore, it can transport students to different times and places, making history and geography lessons more immersive and educational. The person who really helped me along this journey has been educational technologist Jaime Donally.

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A charter school faces the ugly history of school choice in the Deep South

The Hechinger Report

Pulling students from Coahoma County and its county seat of Clarksdale, the school serves an area of the Mississippi Delta known for its rich blues heritage, low incomes and abysmal educational outcomes. They were so bright, so eager, and yet if the current statistics held, 25 percent would not graduate from high school. he Brown v.

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Reluctance to require suicide prevention education could cost lives, but it’s complicated

The Hechinger Report

When she took a break from class at Cody High School to testify to the Wyoming State Legislature, via Zoom, in favor of a bill that would have mandated suicide prevention education in schools, she was prepared for an easy win. This story also appeared in Wyoming Public Media. “I Ultimately, the bill failed.

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