Future of Learning
The factory model of education is out. Now more schools are personalizing learning and trying to motivate students by empowering them in the classroom. Will this improve academic outcomes? Will it close achievement gaps? The Hechinger Report explores the innovations at the core of today’s cutting-edge schools.
Assessments can support, not just measure, student learning
Designed properly, tests can build student skills and offer the feedback they need
What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us?
A quarter-century-old school network offers some team spirit to the new push for personalized learning
Schools don’t have to reinvent the wheel
Organizations that share proven models with many schools could increase the pace of innovation
COLUMN: The ‘dirty secret’ about educational innovation
A 2018 federal report found that only 18 percent of the innovations funded by the Education Department lifted student achievement
Study explores use of digital tools in out-of-school programs
Chicago programs seem to be giving students active learning opportunities, but mostly teaching introductory skills
What expectations for the future mean we should do now
KnowledgeWorks Forecast 5.0 does more than simply imagine the future
OPINION: To fight online trolls, we must teach teenagers how to think like them
Showing high-schoolers the real meaning of ‘fake news’ and the First Amendment
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