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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. When an educator is unprepared and unable to access high-quality resources to meet our unique learners’ needs, the system penalizes the educator.

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Implementing Innovation Strategies to Make School Districts More Equitable

edWeb.net

The disruptions and changes during the past year have made a return to the industrial education model of the 19th and 20th centuries problematic for school districts committed to preparing diverse students for 21st century careers. By Robert Low. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING. LISTEN TO THE PODCAST. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

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K12 Inc. Names Stuart Udell, Former Catapult Learning Official, as CEO

Marketplace K-12

a favorite target of critics of the for-profit school industry, has named former Catapult Learning official Stuart J. Udell most recently served as CEO of Catapult Learning Inc., On its website, Catapult Learning describes itself as the largest provider of contracted K-12 services in the United States. Udell as its CEO.

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Not by chance, learning analytics and all its related technologies (measuring learning, artificial intelligence, adaptive learning, personalized learning, etc.) Don’t let the industry confuse you.

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A vocational school curriculum that includes genocide studies and British literature

The Hechinger Report

When they go out into industry, we want them to know how to think.”. I think if you tried to be a real bully here no one would even take you seriously,” said Dylan Jenkins, a junior in the Natural Resource Management program. When they go out into industry, we want them to know how to think.”. needs more tradespeople.

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Five Things You Don’t Know About Cloud Computing and Education

Edsurge

They are developing a recommendation engine to leverage dropout rate data to predict and design interventions for at-risk students. After intervening and supporting approximately 16,000 students, dropout rates have decreased and test scores have improved. Cloud technology is also saving another invaluable resource—teachers’ time.

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Five-Way Merger Creates New Illuminate Education: Bringing K-12 Educators the Broadest Choice of Student Achievement and Personalized Learning Offerings

techlearning

The new company, called Illuminate Education, will be led by Christine Willig, a 25-year K-12 industry veteran. Learn more at illuminateed.com About Key Data Systems (KDS) currently supports close to 12.5 1999) is a premier provider of personalized learning solutions to the K-12 assessment platform industry.