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With a degree no longer enough, job candidates are told to prove their skills in tests

The Hechinger Report

As the number of candidates balloons while health risks make it hard for hiring managers to meet with them in person, a trend toward “pre-hiring assessments” — already under way before Covid-19 — is getting a huge new push. Now, with far more applicants in the pipeline, “I only see pre-hiring assessment gaining momentum,” Price said.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

Districts have spent thousands of dollars on consultants and software upgrades, and the racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps that the law was supposed to help eliminate remain largely unchanged. To build public support for the changes, the foundation also gave smaller grants to youth and immigrant advocacy groups in the districts.

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From here to there: Musings about the path to having good OER for every course on campus

Iterating Toward Openness

assessment banks, assignments, online homework tools).) The Linux operating system is one of the most incredible success stories of the open source software movement. There is a popular myth that most of the people writing open source software do this work in their spare time for altruistic reasons. But is 300 a lot or a little?

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

The Hechinger Report

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. based education reform advocacy group.

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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. Many watched instructional videos or worked with adaptive-learning software that adjusted lessons based on each student’s proficiency. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Growing Role of Technology in Personalized Learning

MindShift

Last year, the founder of Facebook pledged to donate $45 billion to social causes, one of them personalized learning. The computer system does this by constantly assessing how a particular student answers questions and what kind of lesson most engages that student. based education reform advocacy group.

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The Emergency Home Learning (& More) Summit - 110 sessions + 80 replays #homelearningsummit #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Please spread the word and tell people about the Summit forward this email , or post on social media Hashtag: #homelearningsummit Twitter: @homelearnsummit Facebook: @homelearningsummit Instagram: homelearningsummit HERE ARE SOME OF THE TOPICS WE ARE WORKING TO COVER IN THE SUMMIT TALKS, INTERVIEWS, AND OPEN-CHAT TIMES : ADHD and Learning ?