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ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open-Source Assessment Startup

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The company offers a suite of tools used to create, deliver and generate reports from digital assessments. The vision behind TAO was to create an open-source assessment platform that works with different content authoring, delivery and reporting tools, says Marc Oswald, co-founder and CEO of OAT.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” “Three months after the former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexual assault, he was released on Friday,” NPR reports. ” “Investigation Finds Phillips Andover Faculty Engaged in Sexual Misconduct With Students,” The New York Times reports.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From Liberia , “Government to crackdown on unlicensed schools,” New Vision reports. From the press release : “ Knewton Launches Alta, Fully Integrated Adaptive Learning Courseware for Higher Education, Putting Achievement in Reach for Everyone.” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

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.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

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Says He Will Lead Federal Task Force on Higher-Ed Policy,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Via Campus Technology : “ Harvard Tailoring the MOOC Experience With Adaptive Learning.” “ inBloom ’s collapse undermined personalized learning and data standards efforts,” says danah boyd. (I’m

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“What Decades Of Covering School Shootings Has Taught Me” by NPR’s longtime education reporter, Claudio Sanchez. And there’s data about pay in the research and reports section below. blog : “ Elsevier Collaborates with Hypothesis to Integrate Open Annotation.” School Shooting. million total.

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” I mean… In other Arne news, Chalkbeat also reports that “‘I think that’s blood money’: Arne Duncan pushed charters to reject funds from Trump admin if budget cuts approved.” ” “Republicans try to take cheap phones and broadband away from poor people,” Ars Technica reports.