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Will Virtual Reality Lead More Families to Opt Out of Traditional Public Schools?

ED Surge

(Younger children in the school take courses using more-traditional online tools, including Microsoft Teams.) The school’s founder, Erika Donalds, hopes this cutting-edge technology can help spread an educational approach that is decidedly old-fashioned.

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PROOF POINTS: Inside the latest reading study that’s getting a lot of buzz

The Hechinger Report

It’s geography; it’s history; it’s science; it’s cooking; it’s athletics, whatever that broad knowledge is about the world we live in. It comes from lots of different sources, sometimes from families, sometimes communities, sometimes from school. In this study, the researchers copied a method used by charter school researchers.

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How States Can Take a Grassroots Approach to Training More Bilingual Teachers

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While California and Texas have the most English learners in public schools — perhaps unsurprising given their proximity to Mexico — the states experiencing the most growth among school-age English learners are mainly outside the Southwest. Geography is another hardship for potential bilingual educators.

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How one high-poverty district is adding virtual reality to its classrooms

The Hechinger Report

Although the high-poverty Cornell School District has only about 630 students, it was able to take the plunge into virtual reality with a $20,000 foundation-funded grant provided through the Allegheny Intermediate Unit, a regional public school service agency.

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Why This Mid-Sized North Carolina District Is Rethinking Its Approach to Edtech Procurement

ED Surge

Caldwell County Schools is a mid-sized public school district in northwestern North Carolina. Something that hinders us here in Caldwell County is the geography. You gain such valuable information and insight that you don't get through a traditional education program. So, we do try to look at equity.

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Test prep to get into vocational education? Yup, it’s a thing

The Hechinger Report

It’s a challenge that administrators of the programs are just beginning to grapple with, and it is emerging as New Jersey faces a legal battle over segregation in its traditional public schools, which are among the most racially divided in the nation. I’ll always be able to find good work’.

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Will changes in online college applications help students chase the American dream?

The Hechinger Report

But for students who may not have a home computer or Internet access, whose parents don’t speak English or haven’t been to college, or who don’t come from a traditional family, the application itself sometimes seems like just one more barrier between them and their dreams. By October, she had already visited half of them.

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