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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Google Classroom-2014. Quizizz-2015. Many of those technologies support collaboration. These days, millions of students in the U.S.

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Fun with GIS 198: Two ConnectED Years

esri

Dateline Washington DC, The White House, May 27, 2014: President Obama welcomes Esri to the ConnectED Initiative , a partnership with private industry to help all US K12 students engage in digital learning. Esri also supported a bank of educator workshops in 2015, and is supporting another series in 2016.

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Is competency-based learning the next big thing in school reform?

eSchool News

In 2014, students who participated in the computerized component of the program had 2 percentage point higher pass rates in math, English and reading than students who did not. He and others say the proposal would require new money for training, technological support and more teachers. He says test data back that up.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Teachers are supported by three “teachers on special assignment,” who stepped out of the classroom to provide full-time instructional technology support.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Though the rate of low-income students in the district has steadily increased in the last decade, so have graduation rates, to 83 percent in 2014. Teachers are supported by three “teachers on special assignment,” who stepped out of the classroom to provide full-time instructional technology support.