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How Education Elements Guides Districts in Creating Environments that Personalize Learning

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Education Elements provides support for schools and districts as they transform their school models to personalize learning. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. As of spring 2016, the company has supported 100 districts nationally, representing 300 schools and 300K students. Stay tuned!

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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. Anthony Kim, CEO of Education Elements, argues that he can’t make promises about academic results. “Of By indicators, Ashkenas does not mean milestones such as collecting data by a particular date. Probably not.

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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. Some students constructed model airplanes and tested their flights while observing how changing one variable, such as weight, could change the data. . They both worked with Education Elements to make smath a reality. .

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

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— Digital Promise (@DigitalPromise) February 9, 2016. The teacher assigns each student to a group and lesson based on her knowledge of that student’s strengths and weaknesses, determined in part by data provided through learning software. All the data in the world is great, but it has to be pointed in the right direction.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via EdWeek’s Market Brief : “ McGraw-Hill Education Picks New CEO From World of Data Analytics.” New hires at the Department of Education include Mark Schneider, director of the Institute of Education Sciences , and James Woodworth, commissioner of NCES. (And Examity has acquired BVirtual.