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New Certification Rewards Education Products Backed by Research

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And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. But it wasn’t until late 2018 that the team embarked on a listening tour. Last fall, Digital Promise invited about 100 companies to participate in beta testing. The premise may sound simple.

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Savvas Announces its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 Earns Highest Rating from EdReports

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Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 received the highest rating from EdReports.org. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.

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New Efficacy Research Demonstrates Curriculum Associates’ Ready® Meets Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA) Federal Funding Requirements, Including School Improvement Funds

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June 12, 2018—A new research study titled “ Ready Efficacy: Research on Ready Program Impact” demonstrates that Curriculum Associates’ Ready Mathematics and Ready Reading instruction for Grades 3–8 meets the federal funding requirements for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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Student seeks to create the ‘Netflix of online learning’

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Joffe’s database answered a pandemic-era demand: About a quarter of families and teachers want more online instructions and resources to help them use online learning tools, according to a recent NewSchools Venture Fund-Gallup poll. There are a lot of digital materials out there that may not be well-aligned with curricula,” she said.

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Pandemic Pivots: Edtech Edition

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In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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Want to Boost Reading Scores? Build Silent Reading Stamina.

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Her desire to incentivize and reward students for their reading diligence was born out of a deep concern for some alarming English Language Arts (ELA) numbers: In 2018, when she became the principal, the lowest-performing 25% of her 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders reached only 46% of their expected yearly growth based on statewide assessments. “I

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Amazon Will Shut Down TenMarks and Its Digital Math and Writing Tools

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The message reads: “TenMarks will no longer be available after the 2018-2019 school year. She emailed the company to learn that it was not. A company spokesperson wrote via email that “after a thorough review of TenMarks, we’ve made the difficult decision to no longer offer this service after June 30, 2019.”

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