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95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design

eSchool News

In addition, the company also demonstrated its commitment to making its robust research base clear and accessible to the public. Digital Promise launched the Research-Based Design Product Certification in February 2020, certifying more than 60 products to date. About 95 Percent Group. Visit www.LXDResearch.com.

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Pearson Efficacy Study Highlights the Challenge of Letting Students Retest

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Emily Lai, Director of Formative Assessment and Feedback at Pearson But new, externally audited, efficacy research from Pearson about one of the company’s third-party apps shows a significant correlation between increased retesting and lower overall course performance.

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report. With about a day planning, [teachers] shift right into distance learning,” Rooney said. Credit: Charlotte West for The Hechinger Report Washington Elementary is a K-8 school in Lindsay, an agricultural community in California’s Central Valley. Ushering in a new model.

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Why Continuing Education Programs Are Poised to Become Hubs of Innovation

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As my Entangled Solutions colleagues Amber Laxton, Yury Lifshits and I write in a new report, 10 Trends Ahead for Continuing Education , continuing education programs are an ideal place to not only test new ideas, but also launch new programs. In addition to funds awarded through the program, students may also apply for state and federal aid.

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What does it take to make an innovative school?

The Hechinger Report

One is an expansion of a coalition of schools that share best practices, called the League of Innovative Schools; the other is a comprehensive report on the ways that competency-based learning initiatives have grown in the six New England states. Sign up for our Blended Learning newsletter.

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

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Nueva has been teaching socio-emotional competencies since the sixties (originally billed as Self-Science). Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. Assessing the assessments.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

Gooru’s enhanced, free K-12 content will support a variety of innovative educational models and facilitate the growth of competency-based learning.”. In addition, Gooru offers a wiki-assessment system with millions of questions teachers can use to assess student learning.