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What Is ‘Quality’? Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards

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In an effort to close the gap between claims and facts, Entangled Solutions has issued a near-final draft of a new set of “quality assurance” standards for how programs report and communicate student outcomes. One option is to charge accounting firms a membership fee to apply the standards in their audit reports of schools.

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Computer literacy: The invisible skills gap?

Neo LMS

Recent reports have found that – not surprisingly – digital natives who have mastered Fortnight and driving while texting are far from being able to distinguish between fake and real news, or adept at mid-skill job requirements for computer literacy. Construct a spreadsheet/document. Can find information on the internet.

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The 2018 ‘Horizon Report’ Is Late. But It Almost Never Emerged.

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The story behind the latest Horizon Report —which ranks tech trends in higher education—is easily more dramatic than the document’s actual conclusions. Then, as the report neared completion, the New Media Consortium abruptly shut down amid mysterious financial troubles, and it was unclear whether the work would ever reach the public.

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Lowest student-to-school-counselor ratio since 1986

The Hechinger Report

Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. My Hechinger Report colleagues have written many stories about how low-income students don’t get nearly as much help as wealthy students do when it comes time to apply to college. Graphic by Peter D’Amato/The Hechinger Report. schoolchildren receive.

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To the Citizens of BC

Pair-a-dimes for Your Thoughts

Here are some graphs from Statistics Canada: Summary Elementary and Secondary School Indicators for Canada, the Provinces and Territories, 2006/2007 to 2010/2011. Catalogue-no-81-595-M-No-099-Statistics-Canada ). So I ask you again: How important is a good, free, public education system to you and to our society?

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Spending on Ed-Tech Hardware Hits $15B Worldwide, Report Finds

Marketplace K-12

In 2015, spending on hardware for educational purposes amounted to $15 billion, an increase of 7 percent from 2014, according to Futuresource Consulting, a U.K.-based These devices take images of documents and project them onto a screen. It now accounts for 67 percent of total spending in this category, a 4 percent increase over 2014.

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PROOF POINTS: Later school start time gave small boost to grades but big boost to sleep, new study finds

The Hechinger Report

A new study in Minnesota documents what happened to 18,000 students in grades 5 through 11 after four school districts postponed the start of the school day by 20 to 65 minutes. Despite concerns that kids would just stay up later at night if school started later in the morning, many students reported sleeping more. Some haven’t.

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