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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. That’s why Middletown is investing as much in professional learning for teachers as it is in devices and broadband. Class sizes are kept low, and students remain with the same student cohort.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

Instead, teachers, aided by learning software, determine students’ strengths and weaknesses and tailor activities toward them. That’s why Middletown is investing as much in professional learning for teachers as it is in devices and broadband. Class sizes are kept low, and students remain with the same student cohort.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Absorb Software has raised $59 million from Silversmith Capital Partners to build an LMS. ” Education Elements has also released a report on personalized learning. Via Brookings : “Signs of digital distress: Mapping broadband availability and subscription in American neighborhoods.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). ” Also via The Hechinger Report : “The future of proficiency-based education.”