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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: The First-Year Implementation of the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund in Five States (American Institutes for Research, 2000). By 2002, a new education law had replaced the program and a new presidential administration was in place. FY 2001: $450,000,000.

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

In 2002, federal education law began requiring schools to spend federal dollars on research-based products only. In 2014, the district’s program evaluation department published a study on the reading program’s impact on student learning, as measured by standardized tests. Jefferson County Public Schools evaluation.

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The dark side of education research: widespread bias

The Hechinger Report

Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy. ’ If you’re in the work of program evaluation, you can see why these things might happen,” said Wolf. That’s an archive of research that the U.S. “Every single person said ‘no.’

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