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After Layoffs, Math Curriculum Developer Reasoning Mind Sells to Weld North Education

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curriculum market shifted towards purchasing materials aligned materials to Common Core and state academic standards, the organization began building new offerings based on these U.S. Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. Later, as the U.S.

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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. million in 2010) and a Race to the Top grant ($16.6 The desire to do this causes some really interesting conversations between schools and project partners,” Boss said.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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acquired Wireless Generation in 2010, then made ambitious bets on devices, curriculum, and games. This “Google and good luck” approach throws a lot of options, confusion, and competing agendas at teachers. This “Google and good luck” approach throws a lot of options, confusion and competing agendas at teachers.

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Ohio shutting down its clearinghouse for online lessons

eSchool News

That has been the value of the clearinghouse, he said; not only pointing teachers and others toward online lessons to fit state academic standards, but providing an Ohio-specific seal of approval. “We They’ll have to go to Google and try to do their own review,” Herrelko said. “It