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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

DeLorenzo screened the candidates, assessing their capacity for change, and six districts were approved , among them the three districts mentioned above that had already begun experimenting with the model. To encourage them along, the state offered schools $50,000 grants to subsidize RISC training, Gendron recalled. The state ramps up.

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Schools Are Looking for Evidence From Their Edtech. Are Companies Ready to Provide It?

Edsurge

And companies, in turn, are beginning to work out the answers. The long-time classroom educator is co-founder and chief content officer of Bamboo Learning, a company that launched in 2018 with a voice-enabled literacy application and began piloting the technology in schools earlier this year. It is not a high bar.

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2016 Global Education Conference Starts Sunday - Important Information!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

We are grateful for companies and organizations who believe in the power of globally connected learning. Associate Professor Harmonizing Global Alliances: A Case Study of Afghanistan - Maria A. Host Family Experiences in Study Abroad - Alexi Kim How can you build your personal global competence? . Barrios, Ed.D.;

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How to Use the Triple E Framework for Edtech Evaluations

The CoolCatTeacher

She teaches courses in educational technology for the undergraduate elementary, undergraduate secondary, and Masters and Certification programs. And I think sometimes in my research world that I'm in now, we tend to stay in the clouds where we make everything very lengthy and wordy and difficult to assess.

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Video-Powered Professional Learning (The Pulse Podcast)

Edthena

I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Rod Murray: What made you decide you needed to solve this problem, and how’d you go about forming a company? And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. My handle is @rodspods.

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Video-Powered Professional Learning (The Pulse Podcast)

Edthena

I, of course, would only accept sponsorship from companies and products that I’m very fond of. Rod Murray: What made you decide you needed to solve this problem, and how’d you go about forming a company? And in February of 2011, I was full time building the company into what it is now. My handle is @rodspods.

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5 Ed-Tech Ideas Face The Chronicle’s Version of ‘Shark Tank’

Wired Campus

In the TV series Shark Tank, entrepreneurs with budding companies pitch their ideas to a panel of investors who ask probing questions and then decide whether to back the proposals. Freund: When I sold my previous company, I had some time at my hands for the first time really in my life. Each spoke from a different perspective — Ms.

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