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Two Lexia Learning Products Honored in the 2018 Tech Edvocate Awards

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The online student dashboard encourages students to set goals and take ownership of their learning. Lexia PowerUp Literacy was recognized as a finalist in the category of Best Personalized/Adaptive Learning App or Tool. The judges also took the results of a popular vote into consideration for the finalist selection process.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Dan Meyer writes “Why Secondary Teachers Don’t Want a GitHub for Lesson Plans,” in a response to Chris Lusto who suggests that we do (or at least “We need GitHub for math curriculum.”) “Harvard Finds That DreamBox Learning Improves Math Test Scores,” according to Edsurge. public schools.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this decade — from ITT to coding bootcamps, from Trump University to the Draper University of Heroes — we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works now. “And I’d never gotten my Ph.D. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.”. “I

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