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ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open-Source Assessment Startup

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Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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Reliable Turnitin alternatives for K12

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This is the only service that can access the libraries like Elsevier/Scopus and Springer & Nature. Let’s see what each of them offers before assessing which one is the best. There are 3 types of similarity in the reports you can get from this site: identical, minor changes in the text, and related meaning. .

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(The Very Last) Hack Education Weekly News

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There’s more local Chalkbeat reporting on the recent charter school strike in Chicago down in the “labor and management” section below. ” Via NPR : “‘It’s Preventable’: Sandy Hook Parents Promote App For Reporting School Threats.” ” That approach: Reggio Emilia.

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.” “Three months after the former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexual assault, he was released on Friday,” NPR reports. ” “Two assessment companies – Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp. The states in question: Texas and Nevada.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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From Liberia , “Government to crackdown on unlicensed schools,” New Vision reports. A new project from the Learning Policy Institute and EducationCounsel : “Reimagining College Access: Performance Assessments From K–12 Through Higher Education.” ” The company: Questar Assessment, Inc.

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” “ Richard Spencer , the white nationalist, has dropped his lawsuit against the University of Cincinnati,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Meanwhile on Campus… Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Florida State Cancels Bundled Journal Deal With Elsevier.” Research, “Research,” and Reports.

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Via The Washington Post : “ Betsy DeVos was asked to address education reporters at their annual convention. ” Via The Washington Post : “Secret report shows ‘special’ treatment for public officials in D.C. ” That’s the Collegiate Learning Assessment exam (a.k.a. She said no.”

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