eSchool News

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

When we arrived at Betty Best Elementary in Houston in the summer of 2014 and dug into the school’s data, we saw there were 627 office referrals during the previous year. From 2014 to 2018, we reduced the number of office referrals by 37 percent, in-school suspension days by 52 percent, and out-of-school suspension days by 97 percent.

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Neo LMS

MARCH 27, 2018

decreased by 20% between 2014 and 2016. Data management was again seen as a key driver in time wastage, and remarkably the report acknowledged that government policy itself, in terms of how student assessments are made and quantified, is part of the problem. Teachers are the fastest shrinking position type in the US!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Jen Medbery stepped down as CEO of Kickboard. In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment. Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. Sebastian Thrun stepped down as Udacity’s CEO.

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