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Episode 44: Jordan Rickles, American Institutes for Research

Michigan Virtual Learning Research Institute
November 15, 2017
Podcasts, Research

In this episode, we’re joined by Jordan Rickles, principal researcher at the American Institutes for Research. Jordan’s work focuses on K-12 education and has recently examined outcomes of virtual learning for credit recovery. We talk about some of the big questions being researched in a recently launched initiative with Los Angeles Unified School District aimed at studying the efficacy of online learning solutions in a credit recovery setting.

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