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Five Things You Don’t Know About Cloud Computing and Education

Edsurge

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Higher education institutions are taking similar approaches.

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Five-Way Merger Creates New Illuminate Education: Bringing K-12 Educators the Broadest Choice of Student Achievement and Personalized Learning Offerings

techlearning

The new company, called Illuminate Education, will be led by Christine Willig, a 25-year K-12 industry veteran. Learn more at illuminateed.com About Key Data Systems (KDS) currently supports close to 12.5 1999) is a premier provider of personalized learning solutions to the K-12 assessment platform industry.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Data : Data is the primary analytics asset.

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‘State-sanctioned violence:’ Inside one of the thousands of schools that still paddles students

The Hechinger Report

According to a Hechinger analysis, 150 schools in eight states used corporal punishment on 20 percent or more of their students that year. Related: Some kids have returned to in-person learning only to be kicked right back out. Most of those schools — 69 — were in Mississippi. keeps a paddle used in the county’s schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via The Daily Times : “Blount County Schools building new options to personalize learning.” ” Boy, it seems as though “personalized learning” is really just code for “virtual charter schools.” “ Can personalized learning prevail? ” asks the Pioneer Press.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.” ” Well, I guess I need to keep an eye on how the tutoring industry rebrands itself what with all the investment dollars it’s receiving.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via Class Central : “Analysis of 450 MOOC -Based Microcredentials Reveals Many Options But Little Consistency.” Via The Atlantic : “The Downsides of America’s Hyper-Competitive Youth-Soccer Industry.” ” Via Chalkbeat : “Do suspensions lead to higher dropout rates and other academic problems?