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IMS Global Learning Consortium Announces 2018 Award Winners

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Beatriz Arnillas, senior educational advisor, itslearning (formerly the director of education technology at Houston Independent School District), and Lenny Schad, chief technology information officer, Houston Independent School District were awarded the 2018 William H. Bill) Graves Leadership Award.

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Much ado about NAEP

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But that’s a hard case to make, judging by a 2007 analysis from Gary Phillips, former acting commissioner of NCES. Phillips set out to map NAEP benchmarks onto international assessments in science and mathematics. . We continue to do the same things while expecting different results, instead of fundamentally rethinking how we do school.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S. Our analysis excludes companies whose primary business is to offer loans and happens to serve students (like Social Finance, which raised $500 million earlier this year).

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Wayne Township Metropolitan School District and itslearning Take Bronze Medal in 2018 IMS Global Learning Consortium?s LearningImpact Awards

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BO S TON — June 20, 2018 — Wayne Township Metropolitan School District and itslearning, an internationally acclaimed learning management system (LMS), have been awarded a bronze medal in the 2018 IMS Global Consortium’s Learning Impact Awards program. Bill) Graves Leadership Award.

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PROOF POINTS: 114 studies on flipped classrooms show small payoff for big effort

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Van Alten, a doctoral student, led the research team at the University of Utrecht in the Netherlands, which conducted the largest meta-analysis to date of flipped classrooms in the world. Yet other studies have concluded that students were harmed and learned less in a flipped classroom.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

Courtney Harritt, a spokesperson for ACCEL, wrote by email that OHDELA’s enrollment surge hit just as the school year started, creating operational challenges, and that ACCEL is making changes after taking over the school from another company in 2018. million in that period, almost quadruple last year’s spending, the analysis showed.

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Millions of kids are missing weeks of school as attendance tanks across the US

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Absences were more prevalent among Latino, Black and low-income students, according to Dee’s analysis. They cost crucial classroom time as schools work to recover from massive learning setbacks. James, 12, has autism and struggled first with online learning and then with a hybrid model.