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3 Ways a Company Can Personalize Its Support for Teachers

Edsurge

Education is awash with efforts to personalize learning. But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? Companies, too, need to build that kind of inquiry into every step of their work with educators. Hardly the case!

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Newly Launched Assessment Program Aims to Recast Testing

Marketplace K-12

The Assessment for Learning Project is focused on re-imagining assessment in a number of ways. The center at Kentucky is led by Gene Wilhoit, the former executive director of the Council of Chief State School Officers, which took a major role in the inception of the Common Core State Standards, among other efforts.

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

The benchmarks are similar to those used in the more than 40 states that, along with the District of Columbia, adopted the national Common Core standards a decade ago. Data analyzed by McKinsey & Company late last year concluded that children have lost at least one and a half months of reading.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. HOONUIT’S NEW COURSES ( www.hoonuit.com ) Hoonuit announces the launch of accredited professional learning courses. TCI BRING SCIENCE ALIVE!

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Companies like Kaltura, Panopto and Warpwire battled through the year for market share. Stephen Downes works in the Learning and Performance Support Systems program at the National Research Council, a multi-year effort to develop personal learning technology and learning analytics. And it has.

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