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

Edsurge

1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. education technology companies each year for the past three years. Not yet convinced? billion in 2010.

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What if students could study what they love, at a pace that suits their needs?

The Hechinger Report

Educators, researchers and advocates still quibble over the precise definition of personalized learning, but most agree on this much: In these classrooms teachers don’t pass out identical worksheets and tests to every student. The Horizon Report, as it is known, began in 2004 and is one of the longest-running publications of its kind.

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Why Recognizing Dyslexia In Children At School Can Be Difficult

MindShift

Individuals with dyslexia who are diagnosed in school settings fall under the category of “Specific Learning Disability (SLD),” a category within the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA 2004). The kids don’t get any better, that’s what happens,” Mather said.

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Blessings for the Broken Teacher: Students, Kintsugi, and Inspiring Life Lessons

The CoolCatTeacher

That’s definitely another thing that I hope kids can walk away from my experience of writing this book is that we all have a story. Aimee: Well, it’s funny that you say that, because a long time ago, 2004, I was nominated and I applied for the Disney Teacher Award, which is no longer. Vicki: We’re all kind of kintsugi, aren’t we?

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ProfHacker 2015 Holiday Gift Guide

ProfHacker

I am also much more satisfied with their customer service than I was with the other company. If they like the footy, a couple of books: Michael Calvin’s Living on the Volcano: The Secrets of Surviving as a Football Manager or Amy Lawrence’s Invincible: Inside Arsenal’s Unbeaten 2003-2004 Season are likely to interest.

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Institutions for foster kids aren’t doing enough to educate them

The Hechinger Report

According to a national 2015 study, on a single day in 2013, the most recent comprehensive data available, kids in those facilities numbered 55,916, 37 percent below the figure for 2004. Federal legislation passed earlier this year is designed to nudge states to further reduce the number of kids in residentials. .

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Georgia program for children with disabilities: ‘Separate and unequal’ education?

The Hechinger Report

Now known as the Alpine Program, it was where 13-year-old Jonathan King, a child diagnosed with ADHD and depression, hanged himself in 2004 after being placed in a windowless “seclusion room.” Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It It looked amazing on paper,” Brent recalled.