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  • How One Teacher Achieved Insane Reading Growth Last Year

    Matt Bowman

    March 18, 2014 |

    EdSurge News |

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    Response Location: United States, Navarre, Florida

    Tracy Fischetti's high school students improved their reading level scores about three times as much as expected last year, thanks to her innovative approach of heavy content integration into collective class activities, plus an emphasis on students tracking their own Lexile level reading growth.

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  • Will co-teaching with computers improve student learning?

    Margaret Ramirez

    January 10, 2014 |

    The Hechinger Report |

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    Response Location: United States, Los Angeles, California

    School in various states in the United States are incorporating online learning into the curriculum to track student comprehension, adapt to students' learning levels, and decrease the digital divide.

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  • A Second Chance for Many Arab Students

    Sarah Lynch Emma Gatten Rasha Faek

    June 25, 2013 |

    Al-Fanar Media |

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    Response Location: Egypt, Cairo

    Arab Open University is making education accessible for students in seven middle eastern countries. The seven separate campuses offer “a blend of campuses-based and online learning,”flexible class times, and affordable tuition costs. “More than 50 percent of students graduating from the Lebanon branch are employed within three months, while nearly 90 percent have found a job after six months.”

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  • Where YouTube Meets the Farm

    David Bornstein

    April 03, 2013 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: India, Karnataka

    To combat hunger and malnutrition, Digital Green, an N.G.O., is creating and delivering videos about cheap, innovative farming techniques that can substantially increase small farmers' production of staple foods in India, Ghana, and Ethiopia.

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  • A Digital Tool to Unlock Learning

    David Bornstein

    September 19, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States, New York, New York

    PowerMyLearning, a program that any student, parent, or teacher can use for free, helps students take ownership of their own learning. When most attention is being placed on teacher effectiveness, this program redirects those efforts toward students.

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  • Open Education for a Global Economy

    David Bornstein

    July 11, 2012 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: United States

    An Irish-based company, ALISON, provides free, high-quality e-courses to people around the globe in order to help close the gap between education and workplace skills. Particularly focused on providing access to areas where more traditional forms of education and job training are difficult to get, this approach is helping to change lives and the economy for the better.

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  • Everyone Speaks Text Message

    Tina Rosenberg

    December 09, 2011 |

    The New York Times |

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    Response Location: Guinea

    “For many tiny, endangered languages, digital technology has become a lifeline.” Phones, the web, software systems, these are all technologies being employed to keep heritage languages alive.

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