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

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2003 $700,500,000.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

Before joining the faculty at UCLA he served as a tenured professor and holder of endowed chairs at New York University (2004–2015), Harvard University (2000–2003), and the University of California, Berkeley (1990–2000). Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy.

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

The Hechinger Report

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. About 20 other states sprinkled elements of personalized learning into their plans.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

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From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. During his tenure, he focused on aligning the Department of Education’s work on three key issues: early education, educator quality, and secondary school reform. An educator since 1973, Ray has been a teacher, vice principal, principal, and superintendent.

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One of the poorest cities in America was succeeding in an education turnaround. Is that now in peril?

The Hechinger Report

The district had toggled between remote and hybrid instruction in 2020-21, returning to in-person classes at the beginning of the 2021-22 school year, only to ping-pong between remote and in-person learning again after omicron struck, a situation that continued for the rest of the school year.

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Thursday Interview: The Personalized High School

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Prior to joining ESR, Wolk served as a program associate with The Education Alliance at Brown University where she served on the core work group with the National Association of Secondary School Principals to write Breaking Ranks II: Strategies for Leading High School Reform (NASSP 2004), and Breaking Ranks in the Middle (NASSP 2007).

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

The Hechinger Report

I had never seen kids so in charge of their learning.”. Related: What if personalized learning was less about me and more about us? In 2003, the Gates Foundation gave RISC $5.8 Each student had a little bar chart on their desk that tracked their progress toward mastery in each standard. “I

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