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Expanding ‘through-year’ assessments to boost student achievement

eSchool News

DreamBox solutions will then expand to all educators and students in the 2024-2025 school year. Discovery Education’s DreamBox focuses on student-based teaching and learning, which reflects our MAST program.

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Marten Roorda Out as ACT CEO

Edsurge

The group also invested in startups building assessment and adaptive learning technologies, and invested $10.5 One of the biggest blows came earlier this week, when the University of California voted to eliminate those testing requirements for California students by 2025.

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2019

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Hoping to Spur ‘Learning Engineering,’ Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software by Jeffrey R. Young Carnegie Mellon University made its adaptive learning platform and dozens of related software tools available under a free and open-source license.

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How to apply for FAFSA student aid

Brainscape

We are the brains, minds, and hearts behind the world’s smartest study app , bringing together the world’s experts, top students, and educators to compile comprehensive collections of adaptive, digital flashcards for hundreds of subjects. So, for example, for the 2023-2024 academic year, the deadline is 11:59 p.m.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

We also see it in many instances of adaptive-learning software. Low pay and challenging working conditions are contributing to a teacher shortage – a staffing shortage that could reach more than 100,000 teachers annually by 2025, according to a report by the Learning Policy Institute , issued this fall.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

billion by 2025. He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” But these outlandish claims of a powerful piece of learning software never matched what materialized. Interactive Whiteboards. billion by 2023.

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