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Lexia PowerUp Literacy Wins Best Personalized/Adaptive Learning Tool

eSchool News

For the second time in two months, Lexia Learning, a Rosetta Stone company (NYSE: RST) has had two of its literacy programs recognized as standouts in a prominent edtech award program. The company’s highly-regarded Lexia® Core5® Reading (Core5) was also named a finalist in the category for Best Literacy App or Tool.

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Should we hit the pause button for online and blended learning?

The Hechinger Report

Too many students in virtual and blended learning schools are performing poorly, according to a new National Education Policy Center report , released last week, by Gary Miron, a professor at Western Michigan University, and Charisse Gulosino, an assistant professor at the University of Memphis. That was the shock for us,” Miron said.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

ASSIST EDUCATION & APEX LEARNING ( assisteducation.com/ ) & ( www.apexlearning.com ) ASSIST Education and Apex Learning enhanced their partnership with the addition of adaptive content and digital tutorials into the ASSIST Integrated Education Management System for K-12 schools.

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School of Me: Letting students study what they want, when they want is the latest education trend

The Hechinger Report

A fifth grader works on a digital lesson as part of a blended learning program. Personalized learning dates back to a Chicago lab school at the turn of the 20th century, but the concept is having a renaissance because of today’s more sophisticated technology — and the excitement and investment the technology has inspired.

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Becoming an Anti-Racist Childhood Educator and Social Warrior

edWeb.net

It requires educators to deeply understand how institutional racism comes to be and manifests in environments where young students learn. At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. About the Presenters.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

Following this assessment is the design of an implementation plan centered on anticipated program outcomes. Spence, is to design instruction that uses sound instructional strategies (as educators should do in all learning environments). should be embedded in online learning.

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Tipping point: Can Summit put personalized learning over the top?

The Hechinger Report

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade.