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

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portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. In Pearson’s 2017 full-year results report , the publisher stated that “we have concluded the strategic review of our US K12 courseware business and have classified the business as held for sale.” billion loss in 2016.

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Broadband Provides More Equitable Access to Education and Workforce Preparation

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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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Council of the Great City Schools Names Congressman Bobby Scott as the Recipient of the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice

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In 2015, he was one of the four primary authors of the Every Student Succeeds Act, which reauthorized the Elementary and Secondary Education Act for the first time in 13 years and replaced the No Child Left Behind Act. As chairman, he helped craft the 2021 American Rescue Plan, which provided $122.8 See CGCS.org. About Curriculum Associates.

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Anatomy of a failure: How an XQ Super School flopped

The Hechinger Report

The mayor had signed a letter dated August 14, 2015, that offered unambiguous backing. “I Since his “full support” in 2015, the calculus had changed. And she can’t bring herself to reject anyone’s assessment. Design Lab High School in Wilmington, Delaware, opened in August 2015 but closed this past May due to low enrollment.

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The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education

Iterating Toward Openness

According to a report written with support of major search engines like Google, Creative Commons estimates that the number of CC-licensed works available online is over 1 billion (Creative Commons, 2015). In no instance did a majority of students or teachers report that the OER were of inferior quality.

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