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CoSN 2019: K–12 Schools Address Digital Equity with Curriculum Framework

EdTech Magazine

Teachers spend seven or more hours per week, or 250 hours per year , creating or finding instructional materials for the general classroom, said Clark. In addition, curricula must include elements such as guidance documents, formative assessments at the lesson and unit level, annotated unit outlines and supplemental resources. .

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Three Key Steps Districts Should Take in Addressing Unfinished Learning

Insight Education Group

In order for schools and districts to truly assess the needs of their students, they will have to lead with this information. Schools and districts should expect to assess students early and try to find other mechanisms to assess student learning.

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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This remarkable functionality makes an array of assessment types possible – including spelling tests, short answers, fill-in-the-blank, and more. ChromeTools is a cloud-based classroom management solution providing a variety of tools that allow teachers to monitor and keep students on-task when using Chromebooks in the classroom.

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Twelve Years Later: How the K-12 Industry and Investment Landscape Has Shifted (Part 2)

Edsurge

Others went deep, with curriculum, intervention and assessment stacks. All of these players, new and old, are operating in a stable yet fragmented market, finding product-market fit in school systems’ existing market segments: core, supplemental, and assessment. (I Assessment (including state tests) is another $1.2

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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?

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Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. use Google products and services for daily school functions, with Chromebooks accounting for a majority of all K-12 device purchases. More than half of all K-12 students in the U.S.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Testing, Testing… Via Education Week : “After seven years of tumult and transition fueled by the common core, state testing is settling down, with most states rejecting the federally funded PARCC and Smarter Balanced assessments, and nearly one-quarter embracing the SAT or the ACT as their official high school test.”