Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship -- a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.

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Real reform means establishing a responsible pathway to earned citizenship - a path that includes passing a background check, paying taxes and a meaningful penalty, learning English, and going to the back of the line behind the folks trying to come here legally.

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Without rehashing every point, in one example, as software increasingly handles direct instruction, this will create big opportunities for teachers to facilitate rich and rewarding project-based learning experiences for their students to apply their learning into different contexts and gain meaningful work in the so-called 21st-century skills.

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And to transition successfully to a student-centric system powered by digital learning, those teachers will need to be contributing in more meaningful and rewarding ways than ever before.

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Blended-learning models that create time for teachers to provide this type of meaningful and actionable feedback are vital.

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They are already delivering many of the things that Stanford undergraduates talk about when we ask them how they would like the campus experience to change: more meaningful and structured ways to connect with peers and faculty who share their intellectual passions, more experiential learning opportunities, deeper mentorship from faculty and peers.

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