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ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open-Source Assessment Startup

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The company offers a suite of tools used to create, deliver and generate reports from digital assessments. The vision behind TAO was to create an open-source assessment platform that works with different content authoring, delivery and reporting tools, says Marc Oswald, co-founder and CEO of OAT.

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“ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on Common Core And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching Common Core was one of Trump’s campaign promises. More on the future of Common Core from NPR. regulation,” reports The Washington Post.

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.” “The White House on Monday announced that it would nominate Mitchell “Mick” Zais as deputy secretary of education ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. ” The latest Pew Research report addresses the future of automation. 2 Post at Ed.

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” Via The LA Times : “Trump is ending Michelle Obama’s ‘ Let Girls Learn ’ initiative, CNN reports.” ” Via Infodocket : “ Louisiana State University is Suing Elsevier For Breach of Contract.” The school in question: Bethune-Cookman University.

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.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

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Dan Patrick (R) told reporters on Tuesday that he is sending letters to every superintendent in the state advising them not to follow the Obama administration's recently issued guidance on transgender students.” Via Education Week : “New Test Pitched As Alternative to Common Core-Focused High School Exams.”