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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. I am passionate about offering educational opportunities to students and educators alike, realizing that the stronger teachers are, the better the learning opportunities for students.

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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

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. All the estimates rely on some sort of test, but many low-income students didn’t take any tests in 2021. In 2016, U.S. In 2016, U.S.

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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away from paper and pencil and toward online assessments —lower average selling prices and a replacement market for outdated devices continue to drive volume, according to a release issued by the consulting firm.

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

Marketplace K-12

In January, Jefferson Education formed a partnership with math and science curriculum and assessment provider Agile Mind. ” Citelighter aims to help students break down writing tasks and enable teachers and administrators to create assignments, real-time assessments, and standards-based grading, according to the company website.

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Gwinnett County Public Library Introduces Learning alive™ Kits for Early Readers

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We will be using an online assessment tool to monitor the program’s effectiveness and to help us provide the best service for our community.” GCPL was recognized as a Top Workplace by The Atlanta-Journal Constitution in 2017 and 2018.