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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

Edsurge

and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. 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.

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3 Questions That Still Boggle Educators, Technologists and Researchers

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billion in 2014, but the proportion of total dollars allocated to technology reached only $2.9 billion in companies building education products, but this is a far cry below the money invested in other markets like computers and software, $115.7 Total spending on K-12 education amounted to $613.6 billion and $8.7

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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. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. The rest of the country is starting to pay attention as well.

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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. Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. In 2012, the district was one of 16 U.S.