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Million-Dollar Advice: The High Cost and Limited Return on Personalized Learning Consulting

Edsurge

Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. Consultants charged the district as much as $1,000 per day for their services, as recorded in former Washington Post reporter Dale Russakoff’s book, The Prize. Take Fulton County School District, in Georgia. Probably not.

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Vote for Digital Promise’s SXSW and SXSW EDU 2018 Session Ideas

Digital Promise

Every day at Digital Promise, we work with leading educators, researchers, and developers across the country to help close the Digital Learning Gap and improve learning for all. Come hear their stories and learn which approach is right for you. Is there a right way to approach CBE?

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Five Types of Digital Content Data You Can Use in Personalized Learning Pathways

Education Elements

From the grouping of students, to strategic assignment of content, to keeping track of each student’s personalized learning paths, data is essential for making every decision along the way. When it comes to data and decision-making, digital content providers offer an array of reports.

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In the marketplace: Measuring student progress, new digital solutions, personalized learning, and more

eSchool News

A new K-12 digital solution from Britannica Digital Learning , called LaunchPacks: Social Studies, is designed for classroom use and to make lesson planning more efficient. After implementation, educators, administrators, and students reported numerous improvements to their daily experience. Read more.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

About 30 percent of households don’t have high-speed broadband, with a higher concentration of those households in minority and low-income communities, according to a brief by the Stanford Center for Opportunity Policy in Education. “All the data in the world is great, but it has to be pointed in the right direction.