Changing the Way Kids Learn This year’s math classes for many
students in the Los Altos School District in California look
radically different from those in the past. Powered in part by
the Khan Academy — a non-profit that offers free educational
resources such as online lessons and online assessments — the
school district is expanding the “blended-learning” pilot it ran
last year. The district’s fifth, sixth and seventh graders will
now learn online for a significant portion of their in-class
math periods at the path and pace that fit their individual
needs. Meanwhile, teachers will coach the students to keep up
with their math goals and help them apply the math concepts in
small-group and class-wide projects. Online learning isn’t just
grabbing the imagination of educators in Silicon Valley. In the
nation’s capital, D.C. Schools Chancellor Kaya Henderson has
expressed interest in bringing one of the more successful
blended-learning school models,Rocketship Education, to the
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