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

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. ” How would the program operate? Having said that, I have already committed to writing a series of posts specifically on the U.S.

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”. But it logged growth starting in the 2013-14 school year, two years before the school introduced Edgenuity.

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More than a Checkmark

MIND Research Institute

The focus must shift from dominantly spotlighting the wide range in formal rigor and confidence in the studies themselves (that “one good study” paradigm which I discussed here ) to considering the range of credible facts that demonstrates a program’s effectiveness in real-world classroom settings.