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Instructure Acquires MasteryConnect for $42.5 Million to Expand K-12 Footprint

Edsurge

With the addition of MasteryConnect’s formative assessment tools, Instructure aims to capitalize on what it sees as a “shift occurring at the state level as they replace high-stakes, end-of-year testing with innovative assessment models,” according to a prepared statement. There are plenty of dollars behind that idea. billion by 2020.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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Seeing the Pandemic as an Opportunity for Change

edWeb.net

From 2009–2012 he served as a trustee for the State University of New York as an appointee of the governor. She assists education organizations with content strategy and teaches writing at the college level. Noguera was recently appointed to serve as a special advisor to the governor of New Mexico on education policy.

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What do at-risk students, English language learners and adult college students have in common?

The Hechinger Report

Many administrators at public schools say they are using strategies to “personalize” learning, giving students the chance to tackle coursework at their own pace or have a greater say in what they study. The process began in 2009 and Common Core, as it is known, has been adopted in 41 states and the District of Columbia.