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The 4 Biggest Questions You Need to Ask Before You Start District Strategic Planning

Education Elements

People have changed—in districts with a high number of students receiving free or reduced-price lunch, teacher turnover can be over 22 percent (Di Carlo, 2015)—and the new team isn’t up to speed. Policies have evolved and buy-in has dropped off.”

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

Edsurge

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 Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of Probably not.

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4 Game Mechanics Driving Higher Achievement in Math

MIND Research Institute

A 2015 study by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development found that simply having access to computers and other digital devices had no impact on students’ proficiency in reading, math, and science. Other studies on various education technology programs show varying amounts of impact. Education Elements.

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[Guest Blog Post] Give Girls The Gift of Math And They'll Change The World

Education Elements

The Nation’s Report Card revealed in October 2015 that overall U.S. This exclamation is even more troublesome when it comes from middle school girls, because young girls start off strong in math and science but lose interest and confidence as they get older.

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Virtual School Chat Series Part 1 - Why Is Running A Virtual School So Hard?

Education Elements

So as I think about the future of virtual schools, I want to start with, and respond to, some of the negative comments about virtual schools that surfaced in 2015. One report from CREDO stated , “Attending a virtual school is literally as if the kid did not go to school for an entire school year.”.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

As more teachers opted in to blended learning classrooms, they reported being able to learn more about each student. At the start of the 2015–2016 school year, all K-8 math and ELA elementary school classrooms in Middletown used some form of blended learning as part of their instructional approach.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

As more teachers opted in to blended learning classrooms, they reported being able to learn more about each student. At the start of the 2015–2016 school year, all K-8 math and ELA elementary school classrooms in Middletown used some form of blended learning as part of their instructional approach.