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Does the future of schooling look like Candy Land?

The Hechinger Report

In particular, the suspension of mandated state testing in K-12 schools in 2020 “accelerated the conversation” about alternative assessments that would help educators personalize learning and focus on students’ long-term success rather than year-to-year progress, as measured by current end-of-year tests. “The The response?

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Proponents of Competency-Based Education Push to Spur Adoption — Amid Challenges

Edsurge

The glossy document was released here at the Competency-Based Education Network’s annual conference, where it was handed out to attendees and informed the themes of many sessions. But that still leaves thousands of colleges with no competency-based program.

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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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