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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

Lillian Pace, vice president of policy and advocacy, KnowledgeWorks. For each standard, they created “kid-friendly” performance scales with a series of four learning goals or steps for making progress toward proficiency. A student demonstrates what he has learned, in a weekly “level-up” conference. The response?

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Indeed, according to one story in The Atlantic , a school district in Colorado opted to do away with parent-teacher conferences entirely, encouraging parents instead to simply check online to see what their children were up to. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). Peter Thiel.

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