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A guest post from AASL’s Banned Websites Awareness Day Committee

NeverEndingSearch

While banning books is commonly recognized by librarians as detrimental to the student educational experience, restricted website access isn’t on everyone’s radar. Linked to the Common Core Standards for high school. That’s where Banned Websites Awareness Day comes in. Develop a toolkit for school leaders.

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10 Big Hurdles to Identifying and Educating the Nation’s Smartest Kids

MindShift

” His research became a book, with co-author Brandon Wright, out next month from Harvard Education Press. ” Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-ability Students by Chester E. ” Copyright 2015 NPR. has three very bright granddaughters. educating its top performers? ” 7.

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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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Thousands of parents are enrolling their children in online preschool

The Hechinger Report

a month for the first student in the family who enrolls, with a discounted rate for additional students. A 2015 research study showed that pre-K students who used Embark showed significant improvement in math and language arts and thus were better prepared for kindergarten than if they hadn’t used it,” officials said. for one year.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. The CEO of Safari Books left the company “ amidst massive layoffs.” But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt’s CEO resigned.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Chicago Tribune : “ Chance the Rapper writes $1 million check to CPS as a ‘call to action’ ” “The History of the Future of E-rate ” by me. ” Via The Washington Post : “ School offers ‘incentives’ to get kids to take Common Core standardized test.”