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OPINION: Post pandemic, it’s time for a bold overhaul of U.S. public education, starting now

The Hechinger Report

After unprecedented learning loss, growing disparities in educational outcomes and overall public dissatisfaction, the time is right for an education overhaul. A decade ago, barely half of all states had policies in place that allowed for personalized, competency-based learning. We should ask no less of ourselves.

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Toilet Paper Hands: Empowering Students With Skills-Based Economic Education to Accelerate Financial Literacy

eSchool News

The learning resources provide comprehensive instruction with practice materials to reinforce the lessons and help students achieve optimal outcomes. The complete multimedia learning system is designed as a financial competencies-based learning resource for educators.

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15 Edtech items to include in your back-to-school checklist for teachers

Neo LMS

English Year 10/2022-2023 with an orange color scheme and a specific image is a good example of how to organize your classes easier even when you have two or three classes on the same subject and level. Moreover, when the competencies are set, students can self-monitor their learning, see their quiz results, and check their progress.

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6 trends to watch in K-12 schools in 2024

eSchool News

I hope that this movement will open a larger window for mastery-based, or competency-based, learning, such that we prioritize the success of every single child, not just the few who can keep up with the lockstep pace of schooling.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

billion by 2023. The charter school chain was already developing a personalized learning platform to manage its competency-based learning practices when Facebook stepped in , offering to help the software it called Basecamp. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.).

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