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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. I just don’t like doing work on an online platform,” said Logan, an eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. Logan Dubin, eighth grader at Rhodes Junior High in Mesa, Arizona. MESA, Ariz.

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How Augmented Reality Fosters Student Curiosity and Collaboration

ED Surge

It can bring traditional textbooks to life by adding interactive elements like videos, models or supplementary information to printed pages. Heather Brantley, an instructional technologist and teacher at a Texas junior high school, recognizes the value of integrating augmented reality tools into her lessons.

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

The Hechinger Report

In Louisiana, Georgia, North Carolina, South Carolina and Texas, dozens of taxpayer-funded public charters enroll far more white students than any of the traditional public schools in their areas. 1, 1970, Higgins and Clarksdale high schools were merged in the Clarksdale building, and Higgins became an integrated junior high.