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How SBG Led Us to Empower: The Tyranny of 82% (Part 1 of 2)

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

If a medical procedure has a 82% success rate, I can take comfort in the fact that there are "only" 18 out of 100 case studies when the procedure fails. A few years ago in Shelby, our teachers asked for something better -- not only in an online gradebook, but in a learning management system (LMS) that had SBG as its centerpiece.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. If those two say “ the LMS market glacier is melting ,” it’s probably melting. (I’m The LMS, of course, needn’t be a permanent line item in schools’ budgets.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

That doesn’t seem like much money if you’re selling access to your students as a “case study” for a tech company. PowerSchool has acquired the LMS Haiku Learning for an undisclosed sum. Via The New York Times on Tim Berners Lee ’s latest: “The Web’s Creator Looks to Reinvent It.”