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Blendedlearning in credit-recovery courses and alternative schools—areas where students would often have no brick-and-mortar options—has gotten a bad rap because of questions about the rigor of the online learning experience. The school’s graduating class this summer had an 89.8
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One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-basedlearning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our BlendedLearning newsletter.
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Do you think others could learn from the way you conduct ed-tech pilots to inform product decisions? Digital Promise is crowdsourcing best practices for piloting learning technology tools, and we want to hear from you! Manager of BlendedLearning. Are you a K-12 educator or administrator? 8 PM ET, March 27, 2015.
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