Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

After unsuccessfully approaching several major internet companies, the district decided to take matters into its own hands. The courses are still based on California state standards, and students continue to complete external assessments such as iReady. Graduation rates rose from 69 percent in 2010-11 to 90 percent in 2017-18.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 20, 2015

While you’re not likely to see a significant amount of content related to CCSS (which our reader data suggests may not be so bad), we do publish it from time to time, like that below from OpenEd CEO Adam Blum. . Myth #2: The Common Core Standards are too vague and are “dumbing down” our students.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. The company was renamed “Amplify.” Five years later, Berger led a management buyout of the company, backed by Emerson Collective. Sometimes very hard.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). On the agenda were one-on-one interviews with company CEOs and panel discussions on opportunities and challenges in different markets. Viva Amtrak!

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

Soft-launched last summer, the library currently houses more than 100 educational apps, which teachers can browse by subjects or categories (like assessment or presentation tools). With the Clever Library, the company aims to give teachers more agency in finding and trying new products. And they may be vulnerable to hackers. “It

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

That’s the idea at least behind the latest summative assessments from Project Lead the Way , a project-based STEM curriculum, which is introducing new tech-based question types to measure a raft of noncognitive skills from collaboration to general problem solving (in addition to subject-specific questions about engineering or coding concepts).

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

For example, specific policies regarding academic standards, testing requirements, and charter school authorization caps can give rise to specific types of products. By 2013, 28 states required teachers to be formally evaluated every single year, and 41 states required teacher evaluation models to include student achievement data.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

EDSBY UPDATES ( edsby.com/edsby-k12-dataaggregation-analytics/ ) Edsby announced that it has built sophisticated data aggregation and analysis capabilities that allow states, provinces and countries to optimize their education investments and policies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

The increased interest in work-based learning opportunities comes at a time when companies nationwide are calling for more skilled workers, and not just for jobs that require a college degree. However programs like Harwood’s that offer academic credit in core subject areas are rare, Parton said.

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