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3 Ways to Achieve a Successful School Improvement Initiative

EdTech Magazine

After one year, students who participated in the program scored on average 97 percent higher on the STAR assessment than those who did not, according to a case study. Using that information, administrators chose to integrate DreamBox , a software solution designed to help math teachers teach and assess students.

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Fostering Permeability in Academia

ProfHacker

I just published a call to action for fellow global South scholars in Al-Fanar Media (an Arab higher education magazine) entitled Amplifying Voices of Global South Scholars. Not because of low rates of submissions, but low rates of acceptance. How can we remedy this?

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Via IDG’s CIO magazine : “ How artificial intelligence is transforming learning.” “ Girls in the Middle East do better than boys in school by a greater margin than almost anywhere else in the world: a case study in motivation, mixed messages, and the condition of boys everywhere.”

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all. .”