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Expanding ‘through-year’ assessments to boost student achievement

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Key points: To personalize learning, teachers need actionable data more frequently A new partnership in Montana will support student achievement in just this manner See related article: What’s the state of K-12 assessment? DreamBox solutions will then expand to all educators and students in the 2024-2025 school year.

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Marten Roorda Out as ACT CEO

Edsurge

These efforts have often entailed incorporating research about learning sciences into new offerings. Since Roorda took over, ACT has acquired organizations offering a variety of resources, from social-emotional learning to college-readiness tools and open educational resources.

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Top EdSurge Higher Education Stories of 2019

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Hoping to Spur ‘Learning Engineering,’ Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software by Jeffrey R. Young Carnegie Mellon University made its adaptive learning platform and dozens of related software tools available under a free and open-source license.

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How to apply for FAFSA student aid

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We are the brains, minds, and hearts behind the world’s smartest study app , bringing together the world’s experts, top students, and educators to compile comprehensive collections of adaptive, digital flashcards for hundreds of subjects. So, for example, for the 2023-2024 academic year, the deadline is 11:59 p.m.

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Education Technology and the 'New Economy'

Hack Education

I’d hardly know where to begin in writing one, but I want to open this particular article – one that focuses, in part, on the whole “everyone should learn to code” craze – recognizing his great contribution to educational computing as well as his loss. “Everyone should learn to code.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2012, Pearson, Cengage Learning, and Macmillan Higher Education sued Boundless Learning, claiming that the open education textbook startup had “stolen the creative expression of their authors and editors, violating their intellectual-property rights.” Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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