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Beyond English: Why Writing Belongs in Every Classroom

Catlin Tucker

Writing deepens learning and positively impacts academic performance, improves our students’ ability to establish and maintain relationships, and helps students manage their complex emotions. Writing improves reading skills (Graham & Herbert, 2010; Shanahan, 2016). Plus, it works across all subject areas! Kiuhara, S.

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

Doug Levin

Please feel free to comment if you believe I’ve missed a key document or piece of crucial information, or if you have a question regarding the context of a specific statement or document. In any case, do not be surprised if I periodically return to this post to update or add key facts and documents. FY 2010 $100,000,000.

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How Is Cloud Computing Revolutionizing the Education Industry?

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Online libraries and collections of free didactic documents were a reality as early as 1997 , through the Cisco Networking Academy. With their help, trainers can create virtual scenarios that their students engage with and apply in a computer-generated space. Extended Access to Education.

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This Neuroscientist Wants to Know Your Brain On Art—and How It Improves Learning

Edsurge

At the time, our state test was based upon performance assessment, and learning the thinking skills framework. Then six is evaluation, and lots of research around feedback and even student’s’ knowledge of when they're getting feedback and how that affects performance. Not assessing of knowledge but assessing for knowledge.

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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

Edsurge

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Through a 2010 collaboration with Gisele Huff from the Jacquelin Hume Foundation and Michael B. Dena Cushenberry hadn’t seen much change in instruction or student engagement.

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Dissertation Journal: Defended, Edited, Submitted, Accepted

Mistakengoal.com

They’ve accepted the document and forwarded it on to ProQuest for permanent archival so I think I’m just waiting for a few random bits of paperwork to work their way through the systems before everything is completely, totally, and finally done. Although that assumption is correct for many students, it is false for others.

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Funding Edtech with the E-Rate Program and Grants

edWeb.net

As schools and districts strive to meet their existing technology needs and prepare for the future, access to federal and state funding, along with other grants, is making a major difference in whether students engage in 21 st century learning or are left behind.

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