Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Earlier this month in New York City, the AT&T Aspire Accelerator, AT&T’s program that finds, develops, and invests in promising edtech companies from around the world, hosted an afternoon of mock board meetings with its 2018 cohort. The same principle applies to edtech companies. To date AT&T has made 27 investments.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While virtual resources abound, the systems are not coordinated enough to fully address teachers’ curriculum-design needs and to support them as they help students build a coherent body of knowledge. They would be delivered to your learning management system or downloaded into an Excel notebook, or whatever vehicle can absorb them.”.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 81

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

It surfaced biased algorithms, irresponsible advertising, privacy incursions, fake news and screen-time addiction—all especially concerning for those of us who believe that while technology is no magic elixir, it is an essential element of our education system. Our schools are inextricably linked to our democracy.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.). Second, create a ranking system to evaluate the relative attractiveness of various jurisdictions (i.e.,

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Policies Academic Standards Common Core Exercises 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

The digital resources in the Knovation repository—including videos, games, podcasts and articles—have been selected, evaluated, tagged and aligned to academic standards. “We can have a bigger impact through this partnership approach than singularly going to schools.”

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OER Education Company Academic Standards 40

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Lindsay Unified has seen significant improvement in academic achievement, graduation rates and the number of students going to college since it created a performance-based system in the mid-2000s. Lindsay High School junior Gaby León demonstrates Lindsay Unified’s learning management system, Empower. Credit: Courtesy Gaby León.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more. Yet these systems do not often talk to one another—and that poses a problem for teachers trying to find the best resources. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Combined, Faria and Rubicon will serve over 10,000 schools in 130 countries with curriculum support for over 600 academic standards. The new Istation program utilizes Boulder Learning’s FLORA (fluent oral reaching assessment) speech-recognition and assessment product to analyze what students say and how fluently they speak.

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 47

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

CASEL defines these in terms of specific competencies that can be assessed and mastered: self-awareness, self-management, social awareness, relationship skills, and responsible decision making. . Life is interdisciplinary, and while our education system has finally started to acknowledge this (e.g. STEAM , the CCLS ELA standards, etc.),

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Resources How To Academic Standards Personalized Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

The increased interest in work-based learning opportunities comes at a time when companies nationwide are calling for more skilled workers, and not just for jobs that require a college degree. White ended up working two days a week at Creative MicroSystems, a company that provides design and engineering services for other companies. “I

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 88

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is a foundational literacy program for grades PreK-1 that teaches children how to read in an engaging, online environment.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

Kaplan University had been owned by Graham Holdings Company, which used to own the Washington Post until it sold it to Jeff Bezos. But they had to get to know us, they had to get to know what we stand for and how we manage quality in our classrooms, how we maintain the integrity of our academic standards. It's very early.

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Kaplan Course Examples Outcomes 98

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Leave this field empty if you're human: In interviews with 45 parents and students and more than 50 other experts, advocates and lawyers across 34 states and the District of Columbia, families and advocates described systemic problems with special education in high school. The system, she said, “failed me.”. But he still struggled.

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