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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

OHDELA gets an F rating from the Ohio Department of Education, receiving failing marks on measures including students’ performance on state tests, academic growth and graduation rates. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. In any case, do not be surprised if I periodically return to this post to update or add key facts and documents. FY 2015 $0. FY 2014 $0.

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New Year, New Look for Our Scope and Sequence

Graphite Blog

Give Assessment: Follow up with the interactive unit-level assessment. Students can take the assessment and then share their table of results with you -- an easy way to document your efforts in regards to E-rate funding. We all hope you have a great beginning to the 2015-2016 school year.

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6 Tech Treasures for Special Ed Teachers (K-6)

The CoolCatTeacher

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. To learn more about Wriq go to www.texthelp.com/wriq. Listen Now. Listen to the show on iTunes or Stitcher.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Photo source: Acuitus) “We are probably the most-studied educational program in history,” quips Newkirk, since [the government] required constant documentation on its progress. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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Worldwide, Online, and Free - The Library 2.013 Conference Starts Friday

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

There are eight conference strands covering a wide variety of timely topics, such as MOOCs, e-books, maker spaces, mobile services, embedded librarians, green libraries, doctoral student research, library and information center "tours," and more! We have 146 accepted conference sessions and ten keynote addresses.

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Truth, truthiness, triangulation and the librarian way: A news literacy toolkit for a “post-truth” world

NeverEndingSearch

A recent Stanford Graduate School of Education report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Civic Online Literacy assessed of the news literacy of students from middle school through college. Check out the post That Chain E-Mail Your Friend Sent to You is (Likely) Bogus.