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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

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Edtech is a vital precursor to “work tech”—the tools that today’s students will need to leverage in college, career training and eventually the workplace. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide. Static state budgets.

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

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And not to mention, Google announced yesterday its first “education tablet made for Chrome OS” that comes with a built-in stylus. Dissecting a frog on Apple’s new iPad Accompanying Updates and Upgrades In addition to the iPad, the company unveiled a slew of upgrades and apps to work in concert with the tablet. The cost: $329.)

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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. The State of the K-12 Sector The edtech boom of the past two decades promised efficacy and new instructional models. But poorly integrated standards, curriculum, assessment, and intervention materials have always been a problem.