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Innovative School District Seeks Middle School Science and Social Studies Apps

Digital Promise

WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies. For more information about the district, watch this short documentary: Changing a Rural Community’s Expectations Through 24/7 Learning. Contact information.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

It was geared to promoting school choice in all its forms mainly through grantees who advocated for it at the policy level. The trustees regarded these as necessary proof-points to demonstrate that blended learning could be implemented and also improved the performance of students.

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

As of mid-2018, 17 states were in “advanced” stages of proficiency-based learning, also sometimes called competency-based learning. Another 13 were in “developing” stages of adoption, according to Competency Works , an online project of iNACOL, an education research nonprofit. percent between 2009 and 2017.

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‘Bigly’ Education Decisions for 2017

Edsurge

If the President-elect’s Tweet storms are any indication, education policies are in for an adventure next year. Rick Hess has observed, no one knows exactly how the new administration's campaign promises will play out, there are two policy areas that edtech decision-makers ought to pay extra attention to. School Choice.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

And certainly the expectation of many ed-tech products (and increasingly school policy) is that parents will do just this — participate in the incessant monitoring of student data. The sale, the FTC contended, would violate ConnectEDU’s own privacy policy, and it requested that users be notified so they could request their data be destroyed.

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Will “school choice on steroids” get a boost under a Trump administration?

The Hechinger Report

The logical extension of such policies – permitting students to take individual courses wherever they wish, by using online options – has already begun to take root in about a dozen states. It remains to be seen whether a Trump Administration will boost them further, using federal policy. The editors.