Spotlight on Personalized Learning

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On Personalized Learning


The Education Week Spotlight on Personalized Learning is a collection of articles hand-picked by our editors for their insights on:

  • Using new technologies and teaching approaches to improve learning in middle schools
  • Creating individualized education plans for every student
  • Conducting personalized assessment of students
  • Combining face-to-face instruction and online learning
  • Developing online credit-recovery courses to motivate underachieving students

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Navigating the Path to Personalized Education
A Vermont initiative to improve learning in middle schools is working through the challenges of using the latest digital tools and different teaching approaches.
March 14, 2011 - Education Week

Digital Tools Expand Options for Personalized Learning
Targeting students' individual needs could help build a kind of individualized education plan for every student.
January 29, 2010 - Digital Directions

Schools Use Digital Tools to Customize Education
Educators are turning to technology and different teaching and learning approaches to provide more personalized learning experiences for students.
March 14, 2011 - Education Week

State, Local Policies Seen to Slow Personalized Learning
Digital advancements are forcing policymakers to rethink policies addressing student use of mobile devices, online textbooks, and social networking sites for learning.
March 14, 2011 - Education Week

Researchers Evaluate Tech.-Oriented, Personalized Learning
Determining what approaches work best when using digital tools to customize education is proving to be challenging.
March 14, 2011 - Education Week

'Hybrid' Charter Schools on the Rise
Loosely based on the idea of combining face-to-face education with online instruction, the blended model of schooling is growing in popularity.
June 15, 2011 - Digital Directions

Online Credit Recovery Emphasizes Personalized Learning
Developers of credit-recovery courses are constantly trying to figure out what will motivate underachieving students.
January 7, 2011 - Education Week

Passion-Based Learning for the 21st Century
Sheryl Nussbaum-Beach believes teachers need to bring a "sense of wonderment" back into student learning.
April 20, 2011 - Teacher

Commentary
Standards-Based Accountability's High Stakes
Ron Wolk writes that personalized education could be an engine for progress in schools, and that reformers cannot rely solely on standards-based accountability.
March 7, 2011 - Education Week

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