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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. Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. He breezily navigates the internet and educational platforms his school uses. MESA, Ariz.

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

The Hechinger Report

In 1970, when the courts ordered schools to desegregate and controversies over busing erupted across the country, white parents in Coahoma County fled the public system for private segregation academies, calling it “school choice.”. Related: Are rural charter schools viable in Mississippi? he Brown v.

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

The Hechinger Report

Public schools seem like a logical place to teach when and how to intervene, since most people attend them at some point, but actually getting the classes into schools has not been easy. Fuhrman is a junior high vice principal; he said three kids at his school attempted suicide and required medical treatment this year.

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