eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Produced with the insights of an international panel of experts, and with nearly one million downloads per year, this report on emerging technologies for learning is likely the most well-read report identifying key technology trends for primary and secondary education. Personalizing Learning. Online Learning.

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Under this initiative, children who will be starting kindergarten in fall 2016 will receive a free summer subscription to Smarty Ants®, an effective, research-based literacy program designed specifically for young learners. Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 27, 2020

These and other important lessons from Oregon’s Gresham-Barlow School District were discussed during a recent edWebinar , hosted by AASA, The Superintendents Association and AASA’s Leadership Network , with the district’s Superintendent, Dr. Katrise Perera, and Assistant Superintendent of Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment, Lisa Riggs.

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techlearning

MAY 16, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 27, 2016

The Alliance for Excellent Education (the Alliance) launched its Future Ready Schools (FRS) initiative in October 2014 with the aim of leveraging technology and connectivity to personalize and transform learning. In June 2016, the Alliance, in partnership with the U.S. Personalized learning for BOTH students and teachers!”. “I

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2018

It’s all part of a statewide push to “personalize” learning, giving students more of a say over what — and where — they study. ILOs are the ultimate in personalized learning, and they depend on teachers to structure programs, assess student growth and award academic credit. Wess is a hands-on learner.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2017

Summative assessments evaluate competencies in each course through the year, instead of the quarters to reach a “3” in each competency to achieve course credit. Many courses are integrated to scaffold learning, but also to make content relevant. We celebrated our first graduating class of students in June of 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 21, 2019

At Montpelier High School, in Vermont’s capital city, teachers spent years defining the school’s “proficiencies” and rewriting their lesson plans to highlight those core objectives in the lead-up to the transition in 2016, when all grades and classes switched to a proficiency-based model at once. Michael Dougherty for The Hechinger Report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

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 Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 15, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. Educators know that all learners have different abilities and experiences and will respond in unique ways to learning opportunities. He is a Google Certified Innovator, Bammy!

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

Secondary sessions are held in Zoom meeting rooms with a capacity of 300--if those rooms are full, you'll have to wait for the recording to watch. Educators know that all learners have different abilities and experiences and will respond in unique ways to learning opportunities. He is a Google Certified Innovator, Bammy!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Under a Trump administration: I very much want ed-tech companies and schools to reconsider collecting so much data about students — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) November 10, 2016. 2016 underscored that security flaws aren’t solely a problem of educational institutions and government agencies.

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

It’s too soon to know how well the free pilot program mixing online and in-person learning will work, but one thing is clear: Without it, said Holmes County Superintendent Angel Meeks, AP physics in this rural Mississippi district “would not exist.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

million in venture capital from high profile names like LinkedIn founder Reid Hoffman and from firms active in ed-tech investing such as Learn Capital. billion for 2016, the largest loss in its history. And then there’s Mark Zuckerberg’s venture philanthropy firm and its commitment to fund “personalized learning.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

There’s a difference between the promises of “personalized learning” and the policies that school leaders enact—whether through changing academic standards, testing tools, teacher accountability and technology implementation—to make them a reality.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2017

That number likely topped two million in 2016, meaning more American students are now homeschooled than enrolled in parochial schools. In Massachu­setts, for example, the Department of Elementary and Secondary Education lists and links to all private and parochial schools in the commonwealth. By 2012, about 1.8 million, or 3.4

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

Although the divide between the haves and the have-nots in this country has been widening for years, the 2016 presidential race and, in particular, the surprising victory by Donald Trump underscored the growing discontent caused by unequal access to the American Dream. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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