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Free Digital K-12 Academic Standards Registry Announced

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IMS Global Learning Consortium (IMS Global/IMS), the non-profit collaborative for educational technology innovation, impact, and interoperability announced a new collaboration among IMS member organizations to launch a free digital registry of state K-12 academic standards.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

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Earlier this month in New York City, the AT&T Aspire Accelerator, AT&T’s program that finds, develops, and invests in promising edtech companies from around the world, hosted an afternoon of mock board meetings with its 2018 cohort. To date AT&T has made 27 investments. Companies all want more eyeballs and users.

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Here’s how teachers think SEL can truly help students

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Of the more than 1,000 people surveyed in McGraw-Hill Education’s 2018 Social and Emotional Learning Report , 96 percent of administrators, 93 percent of teachers, and 81 percent of parents overwhelmingly say SEL is as necessary as core academic subjects.

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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

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Open Up Resources offers two of the highest-reviewed curriculum for middle-school math and K-5 English, according to EdReports, which evaluates textbooks for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. But a new partnership with a budding startup may help tip that scale toward digital. million in investment to date.

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

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following a devastating wildfire that destroyed most of the town in 2018, she made a startling discovery. That’s one thing Katie Worth, a former reporter for the PBS show Frontline, found while researching her new book, “ Miseducation ,” about how schools teach climate science. During a visit to a science class in Paradise, Calif.,

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Online Preschool Is Not Education for All

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This article is part of a collection of op-eds from thought leaders, educators and entrepreneurs who reflect on the state of education technology in 2018, and share where it’s headed next year. In an education reform climate that has redefined education as academic standards and success on tests, online pre-K programs are an easy sell.

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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When Sphero laid off 45 employees in early 2018, the Boulder, Co.-based Additionally, Sphero says it has more than a thousand lessons and activities that are aligned to Common Core and other state academic standards for math and computer science. Students making and tinkering with littleBits.

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