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Tips and Scoops from ASU GSV That You Won’t Find on the Agenda

Edsurge

Here’s how the attendee demographics have grown from 2010 to 2018. It’s very easy to feel FOMO, across all the panels, keynotes, workshops, receptions and serendipitous meetings in the hallways. Under Clifford, the company has made a dozen acquisitions that greatly expanded Frontline’s product suite. Educators: 30 to 750.

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Bankers, Buyers and Warriors: Reporter’s Notebook From the 2017 ASU+GSV Summit

Edsurge

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Here’s a few of the things we noticed on Day 1.

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Strategies to Mitigate the Impacts of COVID Slide

edWeb.net

Based on evidence with both elementary and secondary school-aged students, summer slide can typically equate to one month of learning loss. Dr. Brooke joined Lexia from the Florida Center for Reading Research in 2010, where she served as the Director of Interventions. Why, What, and How.

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The Challenges of Broadband Access in Rural Schools

edWeb.net

Telecom companies often forget about rural areas because they don’t have high population density. Jamie Foreman, Deputy Chief Technology Officer, Albemarle County Public Schools (VA), said that his schools have focused on culturally responsive content to meet the needs of their diverse community. Jamie holds a B.A. About the Host.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Nellie Mae passed on the money to the Portland-based Great Schools Partnership, which used it to coordinate The New England Secondary School Consortium, a coalition advocating for proficiency-based diplomas, among other things. (Nellie Mae is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.) So far, none of the academies are in Maine.

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Live and Interactive with Roger Schank on "Our Broken Education System"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. Date : Wednesday, October 13th, 2010 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern / 12am (next day) GMT ( international times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Elluminate.

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NCLB’s legacy: As the ESSA era begins, have policymakers, educators learned from the past?

The Hechinger Report

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor?