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Swish: Teaching fractions on the basketball court

Students in two southern California school districts are jumping to understand rational numbers on the basketball court, and the engaging series of games — known as Fraction Ball — are already showing significant results. Fraction Ball uses movement-based activities to help students working at 3rd, 4th and 5th grade math levels make meaningful connections between math lessons […]

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Personalized Learning And AI: Revolutionizing Education

Significant advances in artificial intelligence (AI) are rapidly changing many aspects of our lives, including education. These changes come with benefits and challenges. Targeted learning experiences are gradually replacing once universally considered valid traditional teaching methods. AI enables these new methods to analyze vast amounts of data to personalize teaching. According to a study by Ptatam et al.,

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What Are Micro-Schools and How Do They Help Black Kids Learn?

New micro-schools may be a solution for a one-size-fits-all education system that many Black parents say doesn’t serve their children properly… Micro-schools like hers offer several benefits that can positively impact educational experiences and outcomes for Black children. One key advantage is the level of support provided, which contributes to improved student outcomes. She outlines

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26 states now require personal finance course for graduation

Financial literacy continues to become a prerequisite for many states in the USA. Personal finance requirements have ballooned from just eight states in 2020 to 26 states this year, according to Next Gen Personal Finance, which advocates that all high schoolers be required by 2030 to take at least one semester-long finance course before graduation.

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Black Families Turn to Microschools and Homeschool for ‘Safety’ in Education

Other advocates of education alternatives believe that microschools are a chance to assist public schools, either by trying out new methods for learning — which could then be reimported back into public schools if they work — or, in some cases, by providing community assistance. For Wood, of the Black Mothers Forum, microschools could represent a way

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Big Picture model part of alternative education push to improve Australia's school system

Big Picture model part of alternative education push to improve Australia’s school system

In short: An alternative education model called Big Picture, which runs in many high schools across Australia, boasts a student-led curriculum and no exams. The stereotype that alternative education is only for “disruptive” students is not the case, educators in the system say. What’s next? A diverse range of learning styles and a reduced focus on

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What are microschools? The small classrooms growing large in the school choice movement

An educational environment that is tricky to define and difficult to track, microschools have popped up as a growing alternative to traditional schools across the country. The small classroom settings have become increasingly popular since the pandemic, especially among parents with neurodivergent students.

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AI accreditation for schools: Why innovative tech requires an innovative implementation framework

Accreditation emerges from industry-defined standards of quality. To earn accreditation, a school must produce evidence that it meets those standards. (Different accreditors use different language and organize content differently, but we all validate the same essential standards.) And as the Middle States AI advisory team was designing RAIL to enable AI adoption while avoiding “integration,”

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The rise of ‘micro-schools’: Parents opt for alternative child learning amid public education concerns

Micro-schools offer students a small community as well as flexible schedules and assignments “A lot of micro-schools these days focus on project-based and experiential learning, too,” Barham said. “The kids I’ve met are really engaged because they’re not just sitting at desks — they’re out in the community, collaborating on hands-on projects and drawing real-world

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Student-designed 7th grade climate curriculum aims to bring joy, rigor

The developers of a new climate-centered, open source curriculum focused on land subsidence in California’s Central Valley promise the lessons for 7th graders will be joyful, engaging and rigorous. That’s because the developers, ages 12-23, are students themselves and have keen insight into what middle schoolers want to learn and how they connect with information.

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Education Entrepreneurship Is Flourishing Across The US

Education Entrepreneurship Is Flourishing Across The U.S.

A former New York City public school teacher launched a microschool in Brooklyn. A retired U.S. Marine Corps officer created one in Richmond, Virginia. A mother in Detroit, Michigan began supporting a handful of homeschooling families in 2020 and now runs a thriving homeschool resource center serving more than 200 Detroit homeschooled children. A former

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Teachers Want to Innovate. Schools that Don’t Let Them Are Losing Out

At the end of April, I attended a conference in Atlanta featuring a small but heterogenous group of self-described education entrepreneurs. It was the second year of the National Hybrid Schools Conference, which launched in 2022 to connect people involved in less conventional styles of schooling that have exploded in interest since the pandemic. I

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