The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Today’s Sponsor: WriQ from Texthelp is a new FREE Add-on for Google Docs that helps teachers easily assess student writing and track progress over time by automatically scoring students’ spelling, punctuation, and grammar errors. Tuesday, October 10, 2017. It works really good for reminding parents about meetings that we have.

Google 290

Google Twitter Data Tools 290

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

In recent years, though, a variety of virtual counseling models have popped up, from College Possible’s Navigate program, which operates primarily via phone, text and e-mail, to a pilot from College Advising Corps, debuting this fall at two rural Texas high schools, which relies primarily on video conferencing. I’d never been to a college.”.

E-rate 111

E-rate Report Accessibility Secondary 111

NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). Ratings and reviews a based on standards-aligned, multifaceted rubric used by a team of expert reviewers and a select group of educators who field-test products for their value with learners. Check out their Top App Lists.

iPad 40

iPad Android E-rate Facebook 40

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” The specific moonshot he recently set his sights on is to revolutionize the teaching of mathematics, specifically for college students who lack basic competencies to meet admission or graduation requirements.

Education 216

Education Learning Software Knewton 216

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Funds are available through the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), E-rate program, and federal COVID relief funds like the CARES Act. However, schools are limited in how they can spend this money and often have to make tough decisions about priorities.

Technology 169

Technology E-rate Laptops Digital Divide 169

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2016

The Department of Health’s Division of Child Care Licensure has received an extra $1 million, a 50 percent increase in its budget, to enable licensing officials to inspect centers four times a year and allow them to spend more time helping each center to meet health and safety requirements.

E-rate 40

E-rate Report Meeting Training 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 12, 2017

Here’s what caught my eye the week of March 6, 2017 – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 10 Edition). Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5 Tagged on: March 10, 2017 State reaches $3.5

EdTech 170

EdTech E-rate OER Coursera 170

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

In addition, kindergarteners who took advantage of state-funded pre-K in Quitman ranked among the top five performers on an assessment of school readiness skills, state data released in November show. Almost half of Mississippi’s 4-year-olds are not attending any preschool at all, according to the Annie E. million in 2017.

Elementary 59

Elementary Data Training Report 59

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

Via NPR on Sunday : “ President Trump Set To Meet With Presidents Of Historically Black Colleges And Universities.” ” Via NPR on Tuesday : “ Trump, And Most Black College Presidents, Absent From Annual Meeting.” From the Knewton blog : “ Introducing Knewton Product Updates for Fall 2017.”

Education 48

Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. In 2017, the petite Texan arrived at the jail with an armada of plans and the energy to launch them. An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / WASHINGTON, D.C. Jerard Briscoe is away at school. It’s a plausible story.

Tablets 165

Tablets E-rate Khan Academy Study 165

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Via WaPo’s Valerie Strauss : “ Trump ’s rather weird meeting with the 2017 Teachers of the Year.” “5 Reasons Why e-textbooks in Egypt Would Be Inequitable” by Maha Bali. The “nation’s report card” is the National Assessment of Educational Progress, or NAEP.

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

Martin had the lowest ratings possible for achievement and improvement on its state report card that year. Not only is the middle school new, but the high school graduation rate has soared from 57 percent to 91 percent in four years. Obama had seen Corridor and wanted to meet him and the people in the film from Dillon and elsewhere.

E-rate 40

E-rate Course Policies Advocacy 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

To the entrepreneur who wrote the Techcrunch op-ed in August that ed-tech is “ 2017's big, untapped and safe investor opportunity.” In part, their struggles are a result of controversies surrounding the Common Core State Standards, which were supposed to streamline and procurement the development of curriculum and assessment.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

” Via Inside Higher Ed : “Two debt collectors said in separate statements this week that they will not assess collection fees on defaulted student loan borrowers who quickly enter repayment, despite new guidance from the Department of Education.” officials approve new rating system.” ” Bye, Mercator. .

Education 52

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

Testing, Testing… “At last weekend’s annual meeting of the Association for Psychological Science (APS) in Boston, Cornell University psychologist Robert Sternberg sounded an alarm about the influence of standardized tests on American society,” says Scientific American , publishing a Q&A with Sternberg about his concerns.

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

” Just as we’ve seen in recent years, there was some faculty pushback to online education in 2017 at various institutions , notably at George Washington University, which was sued last year by a handful graduates who claimed that their online education was inferior to what was offered on campus. broadband privacy rules.”

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Board of Education school-segregation decision, Williams saw a post on Facebook shared by an old high-school friend she knew from her days playing trumpet in the Gardendale marching band: The newly empowered Gardendale Board of Education would be meeting in a few hours. After the meeting ended, two parents approached Williams in the lobby.

Education 111

Education Report Data E-rate 111