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

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Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. Founded by former Kaplan executive Jonathan Grayer, Weld North has purchased 16 companies since 2010. Imagine previously acquired Think Through Math, another digital math product, in 2016.)

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The massive experiment in New Orleans schools that few have noticed

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Five-year-old Mykell Robinson practices his reading on the Lexia software while a small group of classmates work with a teacher. What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Photo: Sharon Lurye/The Hechinger Report.

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“Tired of fighting that fight”: School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech

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A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S.

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Apple’s Longtime Education VP Shares Frustrations With Slow Pace of Change

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So we probably had more education software in the early, early days of the PC than anyone else. But Steve had a special place in his heart particularly for elementary schools. We equated it to writing a software program. We saw a big push by schools back in 2010 and 2011 to adopt iPads on a large scale. Apply it.’

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The Senate Education Committee began work this week sifting through the 800-some-odd-page reauthorization for the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. The presentation software SlideRocket announced SlideRocket EDU this week, making its tools available to students and teachers via the Google Apps Marketplace.

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Workbench Education Expands Partnership with Baltimore City Public Schools

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In August 2017, Workbench began its initial pilot phase with a multi-day Professional Development (PD) workshop for teachers from Wildwood Elementary/Middle School (formerly Lyndhurst Elementary/Middle School). Height Elementary, Forest Park High, Ft.

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Inside DC Schools: The Struggle to Develop Personalized Learning’s Independent Learners

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He then opens up an assignment on a Google Doc and a grading rubric, reviewing the comments and feedback his teacher has left on his work. Yet getting students to make choices and direct their own learning is no easy task, even with the assistance of an online platform that has more than 50 software engineers maintaining it.