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The overlooked power of Zuckerberg-backed learning program lies offline

The Hechinger Report

Summit Learning’s personalized learning program is a key part of the school’s improvement efforts. But Logan’s feelings about online learning are common. Surveys and interviews routinely find that many students prefer learning directly from teachers and get tired of looking at screens. MESA, Ariz.

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Trouble With the Curve: Estimating the Size and Growth Rates of K-12 Markets

Edsurge

flurry of activity in the private sector , as schools increasingly needed tools that facilitate evaluation such as rubrics, video observation platforms, student perception surveys, and professional development products linked to teacher observations. Common Core, Next Generation Science Standards, etc.).

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15 hot edtech trends for 2017

eSchool News

Duke University ran a widely read lecture capture survey. Companies like Kaltura, Panopto and Warpwire battled through the year for market share. This will likely have a significant impact on the K-12 landscape for the next four years when it comes to charter schools, Title programs, and common core standards. And it has.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” “The Indiana Department of Education is seeking $4 million in damages from the company that created last year’s problem-plagued ISTEP test. ” Oh look. million total.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via Chalkbeat : “‘ Common Core ’ no more: New York moves to adopt revised standards with new name.” SoFi : a student loan company and one of the most well-funded ed-tech companies out there sure seems swell. ” Tom Vander Ark lists “ 15 Dimensions of Personalized Learning.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient.

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Education Technology and Data Insecurity

Hack Education

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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