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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

The 2010 request would continue the policy of permitting States to use up to 100 percent of their allocations for competitive grants to local educational agencies. FY 2015 $0. The Effectiveness of Educational Technology: Issues and Recommendations for the National Study (Mathematica Policy Research, 2003). ” FY 2012 $0.

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New study casts doubts on effectiveness of personalized learning program in New Jersey

The Hechinger Report

In the fall of 2015, five schools in the industrial port city of Elizabeth, New Jersey, dumped their usual math curriculum and started teaching their middle school students through a computerized system called “Teach to One.” “You just can’t learn linear equations if you don’t know how to multiply.”

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One Standardized Tests Provider Looks to Gaming and Personalized Learning to Innovate Exams

Edsurge

When the Opt-Out movement gained traction in 2015, more than 20 percent of New York students (about 200,000) in grades 3 through 8 declined to take state standardized exams, a statistic that raised questions about the future of such testing. Aligning tests with the ways students learn in the classroom is one of Gorin’s goals.

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Personalized Learning: Exploring the What, Why and How

Reading By Example

One approach that may offer that reasonable next step in embedding personalized learning into practice is blended learning. It combines online and face-to-face learning “that uses a variety of tools – digital, artistic, problem-solving, etc. National Education Policy Center. Yet…students need to know stuff.

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Personalized learning and Common Core: Mortal enemies?

The Hechinger Report

It’s a dilemma facing a growing number of schools and districts that have jumped onto a new tech-fueled trend in education known as “personalized learning.”. based policy group, “and the idea that equity to some extent is based on getting everybody to master the same content at the same time.”. education reform since the 1990s.

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Personalized learning: How kids are getting into college by mastering their skills

The Hechinger Report

Students work on individual projects in the blended-learning classroom of Jessica Anderson, in Deer Lodge, Montana. A student-centered personalized-learning model known as competency education has gained traction over the past five years as states have developed policies to promote its adoption in both elementary and secondary schools.

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Personalized Learning: Exploring the What, Why and How

Reading By Example

One approach that may offer that reasonable next step in embedding personalized learning into practice is blended learning. It combines online and face-to-face learning “that uses a variety of tools – digital, artistic, problem-solving, etc. National Education Policy Center. Yet…students need to know stuff.