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Do Students, Principals and Superintendents See Eye-to-Eye on Eliminating Grade Levels?

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Cederick Ellis and Summit Elementary School principal Lakya Taylor-Washington, the bigger asset in going personalized comes down to removing arbitrary grade level assignments and creating “learning labs,” a style of competency-based learning that Summit has been experimenting with since 2015.

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Why a K-12 Operating System is the Next Step in the Evolution of Edtech

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The following year, I wanted to ensure that when students did come to class, they could participate and engage—or at the very minimum—access the content via a class set of iPads. It felt like every tool I used in the classroom was inherently designed to work in isolation.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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Users can also use the NEO advanced features such as automation, gamification, learning paths, and competency-based learning directly from the Windows App. A new historical analysis genre and new historical analysis prompts will be available in December 2017 and more will be released in 2018. TCI BRING SCIENCE ALIVE!

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Steve Jobs wouldn’t let his kids have iPads. The email, he said, detailed a “Priority 1 Alert” that had been issued by Pearson and the New Jersey Department of Education, regarding a student who had tweeted about a test question on the PARCC — a standardized test based on the Common Core State Standards.

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