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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of One of the major components of this reform was enacted in 2012 when the district received $19.3

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3 Keys to Creating a More Agile School District

Education Elements

In 2012, Google began studying how workers can transform productivity by examining the perfect team. They scrutinized everything from how often they socialize together, to how regularly they communicate, to their personal backgrounds.

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[Guest Post] The Future of Learning is Now

Education Elements

It also helped launch KIPP Empower Academy in Los Angeles whose blended design was Anthony Kim’s first project that led to the formation of Education Elements. At that time, the only schools we could find that were innovating as whole school models were charters.

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‘Where We Went Wrong’ Atlanta Educators Reflect on ‘Failed’ Tech Implementation

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Five years into a massive transition to a personalized learning model, Educators at Fulton County School District in Georgia are scratching their heads wondering where they went wrong. Daniel Hodge Back in 2012, ambitious district officials in Fulton County revealed a 5-year plan.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. That grant is a large bet that Middletown’s progress is real, and that it will not only continue, but become a model for other districts educating low-income students. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well. districts to earn a $20 million federal Race to the Top grant.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S. That grant is a large bet that Middletown’s progress is real, and that it will not only continue, but become a model for other districts educating low-income students. "I’m The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well. ” - Celeste Miller, Middletown parent.