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Illuminate Education’s SchoolCity Product Suite Improves Efficiency with Certification from IMS Global Learning Consortium

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October 22, 2018) - To fulfill its promise to provide collaborative solutions to educators, , the leading K-12 Education Intelligence Platform (EIP), announces that its suite of personalized learning solutions is IMS Global Standards certified. Irvine, CA.

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Can “playful assessments” tell us whether maker education works?

The Hechinger Report

But what else was she learning in this maker space? With scarcely a month left in the school year, why was it worth spending time making videos rather than covering the next academic standard? During a break from her stop-motion work, Bechtel rattled off the “maker elements” she had used while creating her video.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

There’s also little evidence that personalized learning improves student learning, in part because so many different approaches are used. Related: What lessons does special education hold for personalized learning? Test scores leaped in Lindsay Unified after the district implemented competency-based learning.

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What Makes Professional Development Work?

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Professional development defined as one-hit wonders with hour-long speaker presentations and all-day workshops leaves teachers unequipped to implement best practices and personalized learning opportunities for their students. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by 2gnoMe. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Students choose Altus to catch up on credits if they’re behind, because they prefer independent studies and more personalized instruction or because they feel safer at a smaller campus, officials say.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

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His most recent books are The Crisis of Connection: Roots, Consequences and Solutions with Niobe Way, Carol Gilligan and Alisha Ali (New York University Press, 2018) and Race, Equity and Education: Sixty Years From Brown with Jill Pierce and Roey Ahram (Springer, 2015). He is the author, co-author, and editor of 13 books. Dr. Morton Sherman.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. The company hopes the event, which will be piloted this year, can go districtwide in 2018 and perhaps nationwide after that.

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