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How Blockchain Can Encourage Learning

Edsurge

A group of blockchain projects called “learn-to-earn” (also sometimes called “earn-to-learn”) aims to incentivize learners to engage with educational content and, just as importantly, stick with it. Other emerging programs in the K12 space focus on the unique needs of hard-to-reach students. In SuperSkills!,

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Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

MIND Research Institute

A new bar has been set for state-grants-funded digital math programs evaluation. The Utah STEM Action Center has released its 2020 annual report , which includes the results of their comprehensive statewide program evaluation.

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Profiles in Success: Evaluation Links ST Math to Improved Growth Mindset

MIND Research Institute

At Robeson Elementary, a school in Champaign Unit 4 School District in Illinois, educators take pride in fostering a growth mindset in their students and providing them with the right tools for success. Nick Gaines, Principal, Robeson Elementary School. Interested in learning more about ST Math?

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

Add to that the costs of designing and implementing new remote learning programs, on top of childcare, transportation, and everything else that will inevitably increase the cost of doing business. The Learning Policy Institute calculates the cost of distance learning at about $500 per student for a total of $3.7

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

Doug Levin

.” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S. FY 2001: $450,000,000.

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

Using nationwide data from the Stanford Education Data Archive , the Civil Rights Data Collection and Project Implicit ’s white-Black implicit association test (IAT), we examined teachers’ racial biases and Black-white educational disparities. With this data, we also find that biases vary by race and context.

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The Actual Dollars That Will Shape the New K-12 Investment Ecosystem

Edsurge

Investors take note: Business intelligence that relies on a district’s budget and fiscal data will become a fast-growing K-12 market in the next five years. The data are now being gathered and they need to be ready for publication on the 2019-2020 state and district report cards. This will not be a trouble-free process.

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