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7 Things to Consider As We Return to Learn This Fall

The CoolCatTeacher

As a STEM school, we were proud to have the 2017 Northwest Iowa STEM Teacher of the Year, as well as a state of Iowa Teacher of the Year top five finalist. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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Learning.com Joins National Digital Learning Day Celebration with Classroom Lessons and Resources

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The company offers a complete digital literacy curriculum for grades K-8 that engages students as they develop critical skills such as keyboarding, business applications, online safety, computational thinking, and coding. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S.

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Learning.com’s Third Annual Code-a-Thon Open for Registration

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Dixon Elementary School in Dixon, Kentucky, and Little Cypress Junior High School in Orange, Texas, were the 2017 grand prize winners with the highest average number of points per student. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S. school districts and serves more than 4 million students each year.

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America’s reading problem: Scores were dropping even before the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. For the same reasons that many low-income students struggled to learn remotely during the pandemic, it was also hard, if not impossible, for students to take an online assessment of their progress. Estimates of just how sluggish vary. In 2016, U.S. In 2016, U.S.

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K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool Acquires Haiku Learning; Jefferson Education Partners with Fishtree

Marketplace K-12

“With this acquisition, PowerSchool has invested over $100 million within the past six months to implement the K-12 education industry’s first unified classroom platform,” the company said in a statement. In January, Jefferson Education formed a partnership with math and science curriculum and assessment provider Agile Mind.

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Global K-12 Market for Personal PCs to Contract in 2016, Experts Project

Marketplace K-12

While the rate of growth is lower than in 2014 and 2015—when the market was fueled by a national trend away from paper and pencil and toward online assessments —lower average selling prices and a replacement market for outdated devices continue to drive volume, according to a release issued by the consulting firm.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

Prior to the 2021-2022 school year, the district’s assessment data showed math scores were low, contributing to 14 out of 48 schools in the district being identified as low performing in 2019. Jump to: Johnston County Public Schools , Carol Cleveland , Colene Hardy , Joey Norris , Jhone M.

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