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Chinese Edtech Sees $1.86B in Q1 2019, Bucking Plummeting Venture Trend

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secured a $15 million Series A round to further develop its STEM platform for preschool students. In the language-learning market, Dada raised $255 million in its Series D round. But in the future, as more top-down policies favoring these skills are carried out, the coding market is predicted to reach $4.3 And VIPThink (????)

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14 Examples Of Innovation In Higher Education

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Competency-Based Learning. Competency-Based Education is something I’m hearing more and more about, which is neither bad nor good, but worth understanding more carefully. They’ve recently updated the policy and why this doesn’t get more coverage, I’m not sure. New pedagogies.

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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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?Three Tips For Introducing Competency-Based Learning Into K-12

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By far, one of the most popular topics at the iNACOL conference in San Antonio last week was “competency-based learning"; out of the conference's approximately 200 sessions, 35 had the phrase in their title. . What exactly is competency-based learning? Check out Competency Works' description here.

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The Four Biggest Challenges to Implementing Maine's Proficiency-Based Diploma

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Maine has long been an innovator in education, stemming back to the Maine Learning Technology Initiative. Now all eyes are on our corner of the country as we transition from a traditional seat-time high school diploma to a proficiency-based diploma.

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Join Us for the Third Annual Global Leadership Summit - March 23rd, 2018 in Boston

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Paid registration is required [link] About the Summit In a time of increased cultural diversity, global connectivity, and polarization of perspectives, how can leaders in classrooms, schools, districts, and education policy arenas support students with the competencies to thrive in college, careers, and as citizens in diverse communities?

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8 Ed-tech organizations every teacher should know about

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CoSN positions itself as the only national professional association dedicated exclusively to education technology leaders working to transform learning. Focus: STEM. Focus: Digital Learning Advocacy and Research. The organisation has 26 chapters across 27 states, and 854 district members. Reach: World-wide. Level: K12.