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

Doug Levin

Integrated Studies of Educational Technology: Implementing the Technology Literacy Challenge Fund – Educational Technology State Grants Program (Review Copy) (American Institutes for Research, 2002) **Note: Despite the fact that the report was conducted under the direction of the U.S. FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1930, 1942, 1954, 1966, 1966, 1978, 1990, 2002, 2014, 2026), you will exhibit these attributes: being energetic, full of life, goal oriented, sociable, easy going, and free-spirited. If you were born in the Horse year (e.g.,1930, Zodiac animal: Goat In Chinese culture, the goat represents ''filial piety, purity, and kindness'.

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A traditional model of organizational knowledge creation

Connecting 2 the World

It also becomes a tangible representation of tacit knowledge for both group members and those outside of the group (Conceicao, Heitor, & Veloso, 2003; Yaklief, 2002). While individual members may have differing levels of competency, the group must be able to work collaboratively to achieve group norms and defined level of competency.

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An upscale Florida auction yields millions for local preschool programs

The Hechinger Report

Starting in 2002, the foundation has dedicated more than $40 million of those dollars to early education initiatives, and the results have been transformative, said foundation CEO Maria Jimenez-Laura. million from the foundation since 2003. million from the foundation since 2003. “If The center has received $13.7

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Teacher Development Research Review: Keys to Educator Success

Digital Promise

Teaching quality has been defined as “instruction that enables a wide range of students to learn” ( Darling-Hammond, 2012 ), and it is the strongest school-related factor that can improve student learning and achievement ( Hanushek, 2011 ; Nye, Konstantopoulos, and Hedges, 2004 ; Rivkin, Hanushek, and Kain, 2005 ).

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Will Philadelphia Education Survive?

Philly Teacher

August 2002. The State takes over the School District of Philadelphia and puts in an appointed board to run the District called the School Reform Commission (SRC), which is made up of appointees chosen mostly by the Governor and some by the Mayor of Philadelphia. I move to Philadelphia immediately after graduating from college.

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Study Findings

Connecting 2 the World

Relating this to Skitka’s (2003) AIM model of Social Identify Theory (as discussed in Chapter 2), a greater level of ownership may create higher stakes for the individual within a group. 2000; Moreland & Levine, 2001; Skitka, 2003; Whitworth et al., Using social identity theory (McGrath et al., 2001; McGrath et al.,

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