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

Adam Watson Edtech Elixirs

For a good starting place on learning more about competency-based education -- in particular, a new updated definition of CBE -- I highly recommend checking out Aurora Institute 's new paper released in November 2019.) Our current Shelby Strategic Leadership Plan 2.0 has a goal of a CBE system by 2022. It is a "one stop shop" of LMS needs.

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They didn’t turn in their work for remote school. Their parents were threatened with courts and fines

The Hechinger Report

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility. It sometimes takes him hours to type assignments.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

There’s really no agreed-upon definition of “personalized learning” after all , and as such no real way to measure how many or how well schools are actually implementing it. Whatever “it” is. Two high-profile coding bootcamps, The Iron Yard and Dev Bootcamp, closed their doors.

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