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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report. Madison Reed, a high school senior.

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Renaissance Learning Buys Freckle Education to Expand Math Offerings

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It was spring 2018. The tool also offers educators reports on how students perform across various academic standards and skills. After buying myON last year to improve access and student choice, Renaissance purchased Early Learning Labs last month. Serious acquisition talks began last month, according to Kakkar.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report.

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A charter chain thinks it has the answer for alternative schools

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. Nationwide, high schools offering credit recovery used online courses 71 percent of the time, according to a 2018 U.S. Some students reported finishing a course in two weeks. Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report.

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Schools Say Highest Pressure from Students’ Social and Emotional Needs

EdNews Daily

Some States like California are experiencing 30 percent attrition, with 107 districts losing more than 15 percent of their enrollment in 2018, rumored to be accelerating in 2019. First came the cries for accountability resulting in increasing numbers of required reports.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

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Progress reports go out on Thursday and the teachers are up in arms because they can’t enter scores into their online gradebook. So in 2018, when Empower was pressured by a large district customer to support a different open data standard— IMS Global’s OneRoster—the company was reluctant. Currently, as of 2019, there are 244.

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Everything You Need To Know About the Georgia Milestones Assessment System

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These tests determine if the student has understood the curriculum as per state standards, because they are pegged to Georgia’s new academic standards, which are guided by the Common Core, a national consensus of what each child should learn in each grade level. Substantial academic support needed. Grading of the GMAS.