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Top 10 Stories in the K-12 Marketplace in 2016

Marketplace K-12

Interest in Amazon, Pearson, and Bill Gates was high, as was a focus on open education resources. The post Top 10 Stories in the K-12 Marketplace in 2016 appeared first on Market Brief. What captured the most attention from our readers in 2016?

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Spotting Trends and Delivering Data to Connect Edtech Tools With Educator Needs

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Over the last several years, we've published a K-12 principals’ assessment report, in which administrators give feedback on the biggest challenges they face in their schools. Bill Gates. We have a feedback loop with district administrators, educators, faculty, so we listen and spot trends. They had a vision. EdWeek Blogs.

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New Tech Consortium Research Probes iPad Pricing for School Districts

Marketplace K-12

That organization, the Technology for Education Consortium , has come out of the gate with an ambitious project–having released data that questions the prices that Apple is charging districts for a popular model of iPads. The consortium released a table to Marketplace K-12 summarizing its findings.).

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Financial Viability of Some ‘Personalized Learning’ Charter Schools Unclear, Report Says

Marketplace K-12

The NGLC receives financial backing from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which also funded the report, though the CRPE’s authors say the conclusions are theirs alone. The Gates foundation has also supported various areas of coverage in Education Week; the foundation has a vast reach across K-12 education.).

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Why Our Obsession With Edtech and Workforce Prep Concerns Parents and Public Educators

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An upcoming webinar titled “The Future of Work and What It Means For K-12 Schools” has Carolyn Leith concerned about career-readiness. Editor's note: The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation is a funder of EdSurge. They’re talking about today’s sixth graders and where they’re gonna be in the workforce.”

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Is it time to say goodbye to textbooks?

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Q: What’s your take on Bill and Melinda Gates’ 2019 annual letter regarding the point “textbooks are becoming obsolete?”. Related: 10 findings about K-12 digital learning. Fast-forward to today. This shift has resulted in the phenomenon of unbundling content, the idea that education is customizable.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge , who published a list of “ The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech ,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and f**k-ups and flawed ideas.

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