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Five Steps to Empowering Educators with Evidence

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Congress passed ESSA in 2015, but one area still challenging schools is the tiers for evidence-based interventions and materials. Step 1 – Understand the value of evidence-based strategies for students and schools. First, Dowell said they focused on giving teachers confidence that strategies and materials will work.

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Searching for Digital Courseware Solutions? Avoid the Rabbit Hole

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Gates Bryant: It’s easy for people leading the charge on courseware in digital learning to get lost in the different features of products and solutions. There’s tension between the traditional idea that education is an individual pursuit and the current emphasis on collaboration. I’m thinking specifically of collaboration.

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Meet The Gates Foundation’s New Deputy Director in Higher Education

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She began a long career in education, which included cofounding two social enterprise organizations (one of which helped get 4,000 women off welfare), serving as a Commissioner of San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education and starting two edtech companies. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Good for you. But that’s not my job. And honestly, it’s probably not your job either.).

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