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Curriculum Associates’ CEO Rob Waldron Appointed to the Association of Test Publishers’ CEO Council

eSchool News

The Association of Test Publishers (ATP), the leading international organization for publishers of assessment programs, has named Curriculum Associates’ CEO Rob Waldron to its newly formed CEO Council. It’s an honor to be chosen alongside respected leaders from across different assessment sectors for the ATP CEO Council,” said Waldron.

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To Succeed, Ed Tech Must Be Easy to Use, Good Fit, Analyst Says

Marketplace K-12

percent per year through 2019, when 5 percent annual growth had been the norm before the 2008 recession. Looking ahead, a long period of tech adoption is coming up as the print-to-digital transition continues because most K-12 instructional materials and assessments are still print-based. percent to 3.5

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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

The Hechinger Report

Resnick came to Somerville by way of MIT, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in math in 2008. The two discovered a mutual interest in designing engaging learning opportunities for kids, and in 2008 they co-founded Sprout & Co. And she can’t bring herself to reject anyone’s assessment. It’s kind of all true.

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What Is Universal Design for Learning ?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

As Higbee and Goff (2008) suggest, UD emphasizes accommodating the needs of a diverse user base in the creation of spaces, products, or programs. individuals on skateboards or parents with strollers), as well as automatic doors, elevators, and lever-style door handles (Higbee & Goff, 2008). To start with, Courey et al.

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The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education

Iterating Toward Openness

Whether you consider people sharing billions of popular memes and photos on platforms like Facebook or Tumblr, or teachers swapping syllabi and lesson plans with each other, all of these materials are automatically and fully copyrighted by their creators and sharing them is illegal without a license granting you permission to share.

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