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Pearson Is Selling Its US K-12 Business—Despite Posting a Profit and Digital Growth

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portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. But those moves may finally be bearing fruit, as the company reported a 2017 adjusted operating profit of £576 million (approximately US $804 million), one year after posting a $3.3 billion loss in 2016. and the U.K.”

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Amazon Will Shut Down TenMarks and Its Digital Math and Writing Tools

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Amazon will be sunsetting TenMarks and its online instructional tools, which were once at the forefront of the company’s K-12 digital education strategy. education strategy. TenMarks’ co-founders Andrew Joseph and Rohit Agarwal, joined Amazon Education after the transaction but left , respectively, in 2016 and 2017.

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?A Starter Kit for Instructional Designers

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A 2016 report funded by the Gates Foundation found that in the U.S. alone, there are 13,000 instructional designers. Instructional design is experiencing a renaissance. To be a good instructional designer, you should steep yourself in the research on learning and teaching. Surely a lot has changed!

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In Puerto Rico, the odds are against high school grads who want to go to college

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Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.

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Kids news round-up

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Skills and Strategies. News for Your Classroom : is Scholastic’s free daily magazine complete with kid reporters, video highlights and an archive. There’s a rich Election 2016 archive. Check out these regular features a teacher or a librarian might use nearly every day: Weekly News Quiz, Word of the Day.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

When my colleagues and I wrote our Social Media Curation Library Technology Report for ALA, we struggled with a definition. K12 digital curation is about getting our users/students/teachers to the good stuff, pointing them to content and resources they might now discover with their intuitive strategies. What’s curation?

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Carolina Biological Supply Company Announces California Close to Adopting New School Science Teaching Materials

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The state is reviewing new science instructional materials for the first time in 12 years to help science teachers succeed in teaching students the latest standards. 2016 to address NGSS, but implementation at the school level has taken time. have reported positive impact on their classes. “I

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