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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. Too many edtech initiatives treat teachers as robotic implementers of a higher plan. Technology should inspire teachers' creativity, not stifle it.

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Can ‘Sober High’ schools keep teenagers off drugs?

The Hechinger Report

While national surveys indicate that adolescent drug use has fallen across the board in recent years, some 1.3 Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically. The standard is what’s appropriate,” Mr. Kain says. “If The remaining 5 percent were either expelled or dropped out.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Chalkbeat : “ Betsy DeVos ’s first Detroit visit featured Girl Scouts, robots, and talk of beluga whales.” ” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” “Soon.”

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