Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

And we're serving more and more students who are just learning English. Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. If the history of education has taught us anything, it is that education is a human process.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 6, 2020

Photo: Linh Tat for The Hechinger Report. While credit recovery is one of the fastest-growing fields in online education, many programs are little more than diploma mills hastening students through the curriculum with insufficient support. Students spend 80 percent of their time learning from home. Department of Education brief.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. The model also helped students and educators weather the pandemic’s ups and downs more easily than other districts in the country. While the pandemic still took its toll, adapting to online learning was smoother in Lindsay due to its preexisting infrastructure and history of adaptation.

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eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

The goals of No Child Left Behind were the right goals: Making a promise to educate every child with an excellent teacher -- that’s the right thing to do, that’s the right goal. Higher standards are right. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. Early Childhood Education. Accountability is right,” Obama said.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 29, 2014

As more than 900 entrepreneurs and educators converge in San Francisco this week, some will talk academic standards, literacy and charter schools. Disclaimer: the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation is among the various funders of The Hechinger Report. It’s an excellent question.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2014

The thought is so alluring that parents often ask early education teachers what the best apps are, said Lisa Guernsey, speaking at the national seminar of the Education Writer’s Association in Nashville this week. The Learning Accelerator on blended learning: `In the future, we’ll just call it learning’.

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Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

OCTOBER 15, 2022

All of this created a spiral of stress for both the educators and students. At its core, the issue was resolving one of the toughest situations in education: effective co-teaching. While students may "level up" as they successfully complete lessons, there is no real individual assessment grades to report.

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