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Game On: Kahoot Snaps Up DragonBox for $18 Million for Its First Acquisition

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Kahoot is best known for its digital quiz tools that can turn the classroom or corporate office into a raucous quiz show. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards. But there is no question about how it plans to grow.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

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. — On a morning this fall at Washington Elementary, a young boy, sitting at a table with five of his peers, held a tablet while he built a digital snowman — a cool proposition given the 85-degree heat just outside his air-conditioned classroom. Teachers rarely stand at the front of the classroom. The role of technology.

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“It’s unfair” special education students lag behind under Common Core in Kentucky

The Hechinger Report

Field Elementary teacher Jessica Rockhold works with Remy Campbell on a smart board in her classroom. Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system.

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National test scores reveal a decade of educational stagnation

The Hechinger Report

states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. More than 40 states embraced the “Common Core” while additional states adopted similar standards.). Then, nearly all U.S.

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Apple’s Strongest Case to Reclaim the Education Market Is Not the New iPad

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We believe that our place at the intersection of technology and the liberal arts makes it possible to create and amplify our creativity,” Apple CEO Tim Cook said on stage. But once a staple—and stable—presence in the classroom, Apple’s dominance in the education market has taken a backseat. This is something only Apple can do.”

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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We left behind the tablets and spun out a few adjacent businesses. A growing corps of entrepreneurs, supported by record-setting investments in education, are creating new technologies, experimenting with business models, and living their own bouts of euphoria and terror. The intervention program aligns with the core.