Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

So when Piedmont is looking for great digital science and social studies programs for its middle school, it’s hard for them to know where to look and what’s out there. WHAT: Piedmont Middle School is seeking to pilot digital learning programs that support competency-based learning in science and social studies.

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Study Laptops Competency Based Learning Policies 120

Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2020

From 2004 to 2009, transfer students on average lost 43 percent of their credits—basically a semester’s worth. In an education world driven more by inputs than learning outcomes, it’s hard to prove the case one way or the other. But as they move, their credits don’t always follow.

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System Outcomes Competency Based Learning Course 101

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

. — Remi Savard is one of the last students at Montpelier High School who remembers what class was like before the school switched to a proficiency-based model three years ago. “If If you brought a pencil to class or not, that would be factored into your grade,” the high school senior said during a study period in the library.

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Learning System Report Outcomes 82

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2018

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. She also plans to carve out time for students to choose what to study. As part of a pilot, he is testing this, and Ms.

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Competency Based Learning Common Core Personalized Learning Study 75

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date. In 2013, Intel acquired Kno for $15 million — for “ pennies on the dollar ,” said one analyst — and rebranded the software as the Intel Education Study App. They’re distracting others. And on and on and on.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 28, 2016

In the tiny Dell City Independent School District, with fewer than 100 children enrolled in kindergarten through 12th grade, every single middle and high school student was enrolled in an online social studies class after the district’s teacher left mid-year.

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