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STUDENT VOICES: Pay teachers more

The Hechinger Report

The school opened in 2010. I definitely know that the solution is not the voucher system. Emilia Olson, an 11th-grade student at Palmetto Scholars Academy in North Charleston, S.C. Photo: Magdalena Slapik for The Hechinger Report. How would you describe your school? I came here in eighth grade. It serves sixth through 12 th grade.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

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The centerpiece of Summit’s franchising effort, called Basecamp, is its Personalized Learning Platform, or PLP, a free, open-sourced learning management system that boasts a full curriculum for grades 6 through 12, including projects, online learning resources and tests. I’ve never seen him react to school so well.”.

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

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Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Related: Learning technology once reserved for special needs students is now in everyone’s hands. A 2010 state audit of the program reached many of the same conclusions.