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K-12 Dealmaking: Knewton Raises $52M; Imagine K12 Merges with Y Combinator

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Edmentum Partners with WebbAlign: Edmentum , a provider of online learning solutions, has partnered with WebbAlign , a company focused on the alignment of K–12 standards and assessments. Edmentum is currently one of the premier participants in WebbAlign’s Depth of Knowledge (DOK) Partner Program, according to a statement.

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T&L’S ISTE 2018 BEST OF SHOW AWARDS WINNERS

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COM ) Achieve3000 Pro offers a patented instructional model that combines summative and embedded formative assessments to differentiate content and instruction, so students always see lessons at their just-right reading level. Gizmos help prepare students for rigorous new standards and online assessments.

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17 Hero Awards finalists demonstrate their commitment to education

eSchool News

Nominee: Laura Johnson , Apex Learning Virtual School Nominated by: Edmentum. Through phone calls that allowed her to get to know them and discover what motivates them, she took the extra steps like providing individualized feedback on assessments and checking not just for completion, but for understanding.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

techlearning

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

Alexander inspires an innovative approach to learning by embedding interventions led by Istation’s assessment data into the school’s daily instruction. In the wake of the tragedy in Uvalde, TX earlier this year, school administrators across the nation began assessing ways to protect students.

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How Effective Are Publishers at Delivering Inclusive Materials?

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And the historic low scores recorded by the NAEP assessment —which showed some disparate gaps—have only added to that. Edmentum’s curriculum is pretty inclusive, Candee claims, and the company had even overhauled it prior to the pandemic to include more perspectives.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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And like so many products on this list, 3D printing was hailed as a revolution in education, and schools were encouraged to reorient libraries and shop classes towards “maker spaces” which would give students opportunities to print their plastic designs. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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