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      State Highlights

      • Georgia has implemented a path to personalized learning and continues to work to create a blended, yet personalized approach to learning for each student.
      • Districts are required to offer opportunities to all students in grades 3-12 to participate in part-time or full-time virtual programs.
      • Districts must also offer written notice of these opportunities to parents.
      • A rubric and policies to establish a statewide authorization process are currently being developed.
      • The statewide learning management system allows teachers to assign digital resources directly and see student course schedules and performance alongside state standards.

      Report Card 2014

      Resources for Georgia

      RELEASE: What’s Your State’s Digital Learning Grade? Find out in the DLN Report Card.

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      Our actions today will decide history

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      Everything I needed to know about student data, I learned in kindergarten

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      When the Stars Align in Support of Learning . . .

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      Join Us at the 2014 National Summit on Education Reform

      Dear Friends, Today, registration opens for the Foundation for Excellence in Education’s seventh annual National Summit on Education Reform in Washington, D.C., November 20 – 21, 2014. This year marks the 60th anniversary of the historic Brown v. Board of Education decision.  The site of our summit, the Marriott Wardman Park, hosted Thurgood Marshall the evening before he appeared before the U.S….