The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Students at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona, spend a portion of their school day working on laptops. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz. But he doesn’t like it.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2019

He has gone on to create a platform called Be Anything to support project-based learning. They’re still in the idea phase, but they won the “Transforming Education through Technology” category in this year’s Conrad Challenge , a global STEM and entrepreneurship contest for students in junior high and high school.

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Junior High Project-Based Learning Educational Technology Tradition 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2021

Related: Four new studies bolster the case for project-based learning. Efforts to reimagine education for grades 6 to 8 dates back to the 1960s, when an education professor, William Alexander , called for replacing junior highs with middle schools that would cater to the age group.

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