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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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” 2010 was also the year that the Common Core Standards Initiative was enacted in response to numerous indicators of low student academic performance. Globally, edtech spending is predicted to reach $252 Billion by 2020. Parents are engaged via student activity reports on school-owned devices. Indeed, $2.3

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Everything You Need To Know About the Georgia Milestones Assessment System

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If you’ve got a child in the Georgia state school system, then you’ve probably heard of the Georgia Milestones Assessment System and how important it is. This post is a comprehensive guide on what the Georgia Milestones Assessment System (GMAS) is all about. Grades 3 – 8 will take the End of Grade (EOG) assessment.

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Colleges Are Missing Out on Students Who Start — But Don’t Finish — Their Applications

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They outlined key factors that can predict non-submission, using data students put into their Common App profiles coupled with community indicators from the American Community Survey administered by the U.S. Census Bureau and school features from the Common Core of Data maintained by the U.S. Department of Education.

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. The benchmarks are similar to those used in the more than 40 states that, along with the District of Columbia, adopted the national Common Core standards a decade ago.

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Confused by your kid’s math homework? Here’s how it all adds up

The Hechinger Report

He has two sets of videos specifically on the Common Core, in which he talks about the kindergarten and the third grade standards. Sylvia Majdoch, 9, pictured here during a remote school day at her home in Florida, is the fourth in her family to take on math using the principles of Common Core.

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What U.S. Companies Should Know About Asia's Edtech Market

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On the one hand, China’s private education market is projected to grow 9 percent per year until 2020, reaching a value of $330 billion—an enticing market for many American entrepreneurs. As EdSurge and others have reported , these companies greatly concentrate in B2C English and tutoring services (and sometimes a combination of both).

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W.Va. leaders advocate statewide one-to-one computing

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The state superintendent, who has set a goal of getting a one-to-one computer to student ratio in grades 3-12 in all Mountain State schools by 2020, said he wants pupils to have devices with all their classes on them to use at school and take home. He also wants devices available for younger kids, but not to take them home.