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3 Questions That Still Boggle Educators, Technologists and Researchers

Edsurge

billion in 2014, but the proportion of total dollars allocated to technology reached only $2.9 Games, online instruction and other technologies implemented in the classroom address personalized learning and enhance student success. Total spending on K-12 education amounted to $613.6

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

eSchool News

A new proposal out of Georgia is betting it is, and supporters hope schools will implement it soon. In a typical Georgia school, kids like Sean Prisk would have to abide by a kind of classroom speed limit, forced to learn at the same pace as others his age. 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. Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. You take a personal interest,” says Keith. “It

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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. Like a few other students of hers, Karim would spend his lunch period in her classroom, where she would give him some extra academic help. You take a personal interest,” says Keith.