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

Doug Levin

FY 2003 $700,500,000. The 2010 request would continue the policy of permitting States to use up to 100 percent of their allocations for competitive grants to local educational agencies. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Mathematica Policy Research, 2003).

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Why haven’t new federal rules unleashed more innovation in schools?

The Hechinger Report

And it has everything to do with the policies of the states.”. His school and his state are trailblazers in personalized learning, a method that tailors instruction to students’ individual interests and learning speeds. Personalized learning advocates had big hopes for ESSA, enacted in 2015.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. But visions of a world where every teacher and every student had an internet-connected device, and every student would get personalized assessments for learning, were still just that—visions.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

He serves on the boards of numerous national and local organizations, including the Economic Policy Institute, the National Equity Project, and The Nation. Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy. About the Hosts. Dr. Daniel A. Dr. Daniel A.

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Reimagining failure: ‘Last-chance’ schools are the future of American high schools

The Hechinger Report

Once students have demonstrated competency in a course through a written or project-based assessment, they can move on to the next course in that subject area at their own pace. The school favors conflict mediation over zero-tolerance policies as a way to prepare young people to handle themselves once they head to college and jobs.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Ragan Toppan, a junior at Deering High School, took part in a walkout last fall to protest a change in the school’s grading policy. The result today is a patchwork of local policies, with pockets of proficiency-based grading surrounded by schools that have stuck with traditional methods of evaluating students — or reverted to them recently.

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'Robots Are Coming For Your Children'

Hack Education

.” And it sure isn’t “everyone should learn nursing.” ” Everyone Should Learn to Code. As I noted in the previous article in this series , the technology industry has continued this year to advocate for changes to both policy and curriculum to expand computer science education.