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SMATH: How to Turn 2 Subjects Into 1 Super-Class

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Technology was also providing a surplus of real-time data we still weren’t sure how to best use. They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. . Common Core math standards and Next Generation Science Standards were being implemented, and subjects were becoming more interconnected.

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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. In less than two years, between 2015 and 2017, the district paid more than $4.5 That uncertainty is causing some educators—the ones with funding—to turn to high-priced consultants for answers. Probably not.

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6 lessons our district learned from our move to blended learning

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In 2015, Temple High School was chosen to be a Raising Blended Learners pilot site through Raise Your Hand Texas. That’s why we began working with Education Elements in 2016. Despite our success, this wasn’t something that happened overnight. Related: 4 myths about blended learning. Lesson 2: Support your principals.

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Saturday is the Online Global Student Conference - "STEM + Entrepreneurship" (plus we make our call for volunteers!)

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

by Simran Sehdev Grade: XI - Kamla Nehru Public School (India) Health Application using Sensors by Chloe Young with Aeron Young (8th Grade, Hwa Chong Institution) Grade: 6th - Temasek Primary School (Republic of Singapore, Asia) How high school students are already making a difference toward the detection of gravitational waves.

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6 things this district learned from a move to blended learning

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In 2015, Temple High School was chosen to be a Raising Blended Learners pilot site through Raise Your Hand Texas. That’s why we began working with Education Elements in 2016. Despite our success, this wasn’t something that happened overnight. Related: 4 myths about blended learning.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.”