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Acceleration Is Better Than Focusing on Learning Loss. This Unique Summer School Shows Why.

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In the state of New Mexico, where 81 percent of students tested below proficiency on the 2019 Algebra I statewide Transition Assessment , programs like this one can be a game-changer in preparing students for Algebra I and shifting historically low outcomes. Santa Fe Public Schools Multi-dimensional project-based learning.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

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Unruly Studios (Boston) revolutionizes learning by combining coding and STEM education with physical play. They adopted a similar strategy in Maryland, offering schools quizzes that aligned to the state’s high-stakes assessment. If you focus on both, both are slowed down,” Speakaboos’ Jay Rappoport counseled.

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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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If we want technology to finally transform education and teach the 21st century skills our students need to succeed, we need to design tools with the understanding that teachers are activators of learning and the secret to achieving better student outcomes.

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What Happens When A Public University Buys a For-Profit Online One?

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And here’s the most surprising part: that online school it bought, Kaplan University, was a for-profit business—part of a sector that’s been criticized for high costs and poor outcomes for students. It’s hard to think of another example of two more different higher education cultures placed under the same name. It's very early.

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High schools fail to provide legally required education to students with disabilities

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Throughout her career, Hassan has supported and sponsored bills aimed at improving outcomes for people with disabilities. Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student’s parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child’s disability classification every three years.

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