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Personalized Learning

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Students are zapping their brains to get ahead in school — but evidence for the practice is limited

Avatar photo by Daisy Yuhas February 21, 2018April 8, 2021
Kelly Pollack works with a student in CICS West Belden, a Chicago charter school that uses multiage classrooms as part of its personalized learning model.
Posted inElementary to High School

Rethinking grade levels and school design for personalized learning

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson February 14, 2018March 30, 2020
Posted inElementary to High School

Following the lessons of learning science in schools isn’t convenient

Avatar photo by Tara García Mathewson February 7, 2018April 8, 2021
Gianna Gomez, age 7, pauses to reconsider after claiming “Achieving” as her top strength at Greer Elementary School.
Posted inElementary to High School

Is strength-based learning a “magic bullet”?

by Gail Cornwall February 2, 2018March 30, 2020
Cornell eighth-grader Jada Jenkins uses a hand controller to communicate with other students and navigate through a forest in the Voyage virtual field trip.
Posted inElementary to High School

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

Eleanor Chute by Eleanor Chute February 1, 2018March 30, 2020
High school junior Tania Toriz, 16, and sophomore Jade Boling, 15, fix a screw on the top of a shed that their “Geometry in Construction” class constructed at Ritenour High School near St. Louis, Missouri.
Posted inElementary to High School

OPINION: How 45-minute class periods stall learning

Lee Fleming by Lee Fleming January 25, 2018March 30, 2020
Students in a marketing course at Roger Williams University in Rhode Island check their phones before class begins. To tame classroom distraction, their professor uses Flipd, an app that locks students out of their phones during class.
Posted inElementary to High School

Dealing with digital distraction

Chris Berdik by Chris Berdik January 22, 2018April 8, 2021
The “Great Dome” on the campus of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, which is hosting an experimental program to recruit physicists, engineers, chemists, linguists, biologists, neuroscientists and other experts and train them to be primary and secondary school teachers. The candidates’ previous experience and skills will help speed them through the process.
Posted inNews

New, MIT-based program proposes transforming physicists, engineers into teachers

Avatar photo by Jon Marcus January 18, 2018April 8, 2021
Students in a new “Geometry in Construction” class at Eureka High School near St. Louis, Missouri, prop up a wall of the tiny house they built.
Posted inElementary to High School, Future of Learning, News, Solutions

Students apply geometry lessons to build tiny houses

by Kristen Taketa January 4, 2018March 30, 2020
Junior Alex DesRuisseaux and senior Jesus Garcia work in the library of the University of Maine at Presque Isle.
Posted inFuture of Learning, Higher Education, News, Rural Education, Solutions

In rural Maine, a university eliminates most Fs in an effort to increase graduation rates

Avatar photo by Robbie Feinberg January 3, 2018February 9, 2022

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