The winner of our June “eSchool of the Month” honor is Open High School of Utah (OHSU), a full-service virtual high school that serves students throughout Utah. OHSU serves 250…
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While lecturing tends to be the easiest form of instruction, studies show that students absorb the least amount of information that way.
Interactive teaching methods are an effective way to connect…
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Tylor Charoenpojana, an 18-year-old Virginia Beach, Va., senior with long blond-brown hair and tattoo-covered arms, comes to high school 20 minutes early each day—for fun.
Charoenpojana is composing music in Fred…
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Readers who follow us on Twitter are especially interested in new eLearning tools, mobile devices, and game-based learning strategies, as evidenced by the questions we received during our first live…
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New York is filled with people who either cannot speak English or who can speak nothing but, reports the New York Times. Next week, students across the state will take…
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One Washington school district has taken a giant leap this year in pushing students to take college preparatory courses, the Huffington Post reports. Starting in fall 2010, all students in…
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New Jersey’s Edison Township School District will be the first in the state to implement an entirely iPad-based Algebra 1 curriculum.
The program will pilot the Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) Fuse:…
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Mere proficiency in regurgitating facts is not enough, the Alliance for Excellent Education (AEE) said in a policy brief released May 26: To be competitive in today’s complex society, students…
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Not every classroom is a vast lecture hall. There are many small rooms in schools and colleges that serve as meeting spaces—confined areas where projectors must be placed just a…
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Students at Clearwater High School in Pinellas County, Fla., don’t carry backpacks with bulky textbooks anymore: This school year, students traded in their math and English books, science workbook, and…
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