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To Jeff Bezos: 7 Suggestions for Enhancing Preschool Education, From a Former Montessori Teacher

Edsurge

Maria Montessori created a curriculum for individualized, competency-based learning a century before any of these terms became buzzwords. And, of course, please buy the classrooms science kits! Luckily, this is a great fit for the project-based nature of the Montessori class. I think I get it. They deserve it!

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Vermont’s ‘all over the map’ effort to switch schools to proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

He said the school’s transition is still in progress, but the district has been fairly successful in its adoption of the proficiency-based model. Teachers visit to observe from around the state and country and the school was featured in videos made for a recent MIT online course , he said.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

www.getalma.com ) Alma Technologies has announced it is allowing any SQL-based business intelligence tool, such as Tableau and Jaspersoft, to access data from its modern, student information system and learning management system. Registration for the course began November 1, 2017. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC.

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Making College A Powerful Experience For the Most Marginalized

MindShift

The cohort of 16 students meet once a week for three hours to discuss readings and how their individual projects connect to the theories they’re learning. Any time they meet in person the school provides childcare and food to make sure everyone can come. COMPETENCY BASED LEARNING.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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