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Competency-Based Learning Puts Students at the Center. It’s Perfect for Now.

Edsurge

Asmaa, Ismail and their peers in public education were caught in the perfect storm of school closures and an unplanned and awkward move to online learning. One solution my district is beginning to explore is a competency-based learning system, and I am on a team of teachers and administrators working for the change.

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95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design

eSchool News

“Digital Promise’s Research-Based Design Product Certification recognizes the edtech products that incorporate research about learning into their design and development. Congratulations to 95 Percent Group for demonstrating that research informs product design.”.

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Supporting Teachers: Our Hoover Dam

ExcelinEd

Even more so than before the COVID-19 crisis, teachers are having to find and prepare their own instructional materials. This is not a realistic expectation and leaves teachers with less time to focus on instruction.