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Wednesday Interview - Breaking the Cycle of Students' Disengagement by Having Them Leave, to Learn

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Date : Wednesday, April 17th, 2013 Time : 5pm Pacific / 8pm Eastern ( interna tional times here ) Duration : 1 hour Location : In Blackboard Collaborate (formerly Elluminate). psid=2013-04-17.0748.M.9E9FE58134BE68C3B413F24B3586CF.vcr&sid=2008350 Log in at [link].

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

But it logged growth starting in the 2013-14 school year, two years before the school introduced Edgenuity. In 2014, the district’s program evaluation department published a study on the reading program’s impact on student learning, as measured by standardized tests. Credit: Source: edgenuity.com. The results were stark.

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