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Does Ownership of Instructional Materials Matter?

Doug Levin

. – I want to focus instead on one aspect of how we are shifting from print to digital: the procurement decision schools make about whether to license digital instructional materials or purchase them outright, because I think ownership of instructional materials matters.**. Fast forward to 2015.

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Pearson Is Selling Its US K-12 Business—Despite Posting a Profit and Digital Growth

Edsurge

portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. The publisher sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015. higher-education courseware and in-school assessment in the U.S. It still retains a 25 percent holding.) and the U.K.”

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2020 Green-Garner Award Recognizing Outstanding Leadership

eSchool News

He returned for a second term as superintendent in 2015 and helped persuade voters to approve a $1.6-billion Founded in 1969, Curriculum Associates, LLC designs research-based print and online instructional materials, screens and assessments, and data management tools. About Curriculum Associates.

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3 tenets for developing cultural competency in schools

eSchool News

This is in large part due to a shift in the demographic makeup of the student population (non-white students are expected to make up the majority of public schools by 2024) while the demographic makeup of the teaching workforce remains constant ( 80 percent of teachers during the 2015-2016 school year were white).

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Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation

edWeb.net

Essential Elements for Digital Content is a free professional learning community on edWeb.net that provides policy makers, school administrators and educator leaders a better understanding of policies and practices related to digital instructional materials.

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How to sort the good from the bad in OER

The Hechinger Report

Leave this field empty if you're human: Teachers often spend many hours at night or on weekends searching the internet for good instructional materials – or just good ideas about how to meld online learning into their classrooms. Related: Open Educational Resources haven’t upended the way that K-12 schools get course materials – yet.

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Weld North Acquires Performance Matters, Merging It With Truenorthlogic

Marketplace K-12

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. million were reported to Inc. 5000 list last year.

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