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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

Here are five existing policies that policymakers and local officials are likely to lean on to ensure that funds are used effectively, with regard to investments in remote learning programs and services. Evidence-based Investments There is a long-standing interest in spending academic intervention funds on programs with a record of success.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., ” How would the program operate?

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5 Principles for Evaluating State Test Scores

edWeb.net

But as Mitch Slater, Co-Founder and CEO of Levered Learning, pointed out in his edWebinar “ A Little Data is a Dangerous Thing: What State Test Score Summaries Do and Don’t Say About Student Learning,” looking at data from one set of assessment scores without context is virtually meaningless. Christina earned a Ph.D. Join the Community.