The founder of the digital education nonprofit Khan Academy told CNBC on Monday that online instruction cannot fully replace in-person class — but said there are ways to maximize the benefit for students. “We’re not going to be replicate school, even when the school is doing a perfect job so people...
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December 21, 2021 Loknath Das
Distance Learning
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All school year, Montenique Woodard’s seventh period, her last class of the day, has been her hardest. “I feel like I don’t know what to do with them,” she said of her middle school science class when Edutopia first talked to her back in the fall. One boy...
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November 3, 2021 Loknath Das
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MIDDLETOWN, Pa. (WHTM) – Middletown Area School District administrators and teachers are spending the summer working on a program for students who have experienced trauma. The goal is to make kids feel safe and supported. “For some kids, it’s outward and they’re verbally aggressive, and in some instances physically...
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July 9, 2018 Loknath Das
Schools
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A couple of weeks ago, I wrote a piece for Salon about Michael Moore where I recounted the story of how he became the youngest elected public official in U.S. history. At 18, Moore decided to run for head of his Michigan community school board on the simple platform that he...
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October 28, 2017 Loknath Das
Schools
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The extremely tragic incident of a child having been found murdered in a prominent Gurgaon school raises several questions regarding the safety and security of children within schools. With school admissions becoming more and more complicated each year, perhaps parents and schools need to take another look at...
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September 11, 2017 Loknath Das
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