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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

” This letter marked the launch of the implementation of the first federal program dedicated to ensuring universal access to information and communications technology for improved teaching and learning in the nation’s schools. Department of Education’s national educational technology plans.).

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Is Algebra Really Necessary?

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As a result, secondary schools began teaching algebra. Fifty years later Harvard added geometry to its requirements—and secondary schools again followed suit. The figure, according to the National Center of Education Statistics, was 11 percent in 2009.) There is certainly a limit to the logic.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

Edsurge

In Massachusetts, an emerging partnership between private funders and the state department of education aims to help teachers across the Commonwealth learn, share and spread best practices when it comes to leveraging new instructional models and technologies. You can personalize learning just fine without technology.

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Using Learning Science to Create Action on Equity

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Instead of just looking at test scores and saying there’s an equity issue, leaders need to dig down into each group of students and determine why they’re not meeting their learning goals. Make learning collective. Invite a diverse group to analyze the problems. It will take time for staff to recognize and change their faulty practices.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. Top Hat has been steadily expanding its suite of tools ever since the company was founded in 2009, and in recent years has charted a course to “create the next generation of interactive courseware,” says Silagadze in an interview.

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April 22 Learning Revolution Mini-Conference: Emergency Remote Teaching & Learning: Survive, Thrive, & Plan for What Comes Next

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

If you are learning about the mini-conference right before or during the event, please join LearningRevolution.com and while you are waiting for your approval we will have a special link for you to use to join the sessions. What tools and methods will be discussed on “What makes online learning effective and engaging to the student?

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Student Data Privacy: What’s Your Obligation?

Tom Murray

House Education and Workforce Subcommittee on Early Childhood, Elementary, and Secondary Education and the U.S. Homeland Security Subcommittee on Cybersecurity, Infrastructure Protection, and Security Technologies. In 2014, I was asked to testify before Congress, in front of the U.S.