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Excite, expand, equitize: Using data to support reading

eSchool News

Our overall objective was to expand access to literacy and use real-world data in curating and individualizing collections to better serve the needs of the district’s highly diverse student population. Providing impactful data on student reading habits. We also work as a department to analyze the data and make purchasing decisions.

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Current Trends in Education

eSchool News

Key points: Current education trends point to personalization and accessibility Keeping up with current trends in education is essential for educators Learn more about K-12 Tech Innovation News In the dynamic landscape of K-12 education, several trends are shaping the way students learn and educators teach.

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School Districts Are Being Held For Ransom Over Data. Are Solutions On The Way?

Edsurge

But it’s not just schools themselves who are easy targets: Hackers have hit the edtech vendors that schools work with as well, most notably Illuminate Education, where a breach earlier this year exposed the data of millions of students across the country. But the bills have also reflected another big trend in education: workforce concerns.

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Want a stronger workforce? Make reading initiatives multigenerational

eSchool News

NAEP long-term trends data also show that average scores for 13-year-old students in 2022 declined 4 points in reading from the previous assessment report in 2020.

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Advocacy Group to DOJ: Cengage-McGraw Hill Merger Could Create a ‘Platform Monopoly’ in Education

Edsurge

An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. Cengage and McGraw-Hill’s proposed merger is a step toward forming a monopoly over higher education data." —The Cengage and McGraw-Hill’s proposed merger is a step toward forming a monopoly over higher education data,” it argues.

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New data: Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones

The Hechinger Report

It’s the first time this kind of data has been compiled and analyzed nationally, and some of the spending gaps are extreme. Hechinger’s analysis of state and local spending by school included nearly 700 districts (those with 15 or more schools) from 40 states that made the data available. But he’s not surprised. That’s a problem.

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The State of Computer Science Report Reveals Progress and Challenges in US Education

eSchool News

It provides an update on national and state-level computer science education policy, including policy trends, maps, state summaries, and implementation data. Scroll down for some takeaways and data highlights. The 7th annual report on K-12 computer science in the United States dropped today. Dig in to the whole report here.

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