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Retrieval practice, CBE, and what we value regarding student learning

Dangerously Irrelevant

This work often involves extremely sophisticated proficiency scaling of desired learning outcomes, student leveling diagnostics, and individualized instruction and student interventions. Some of our lower-level student learning outcomes are important and many are less so, particularly when viewed through the lens of ‘lifeworthy content.’

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What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

The Hechinger Report

One day, a friend forwarded an email about Resilient Coders, a boot camp that trains people of color for web development and software engineering jobs. It hurts employers, too, Fuller and his Harvard colleague, researcher Manjari Raman, found in their report. Lawrence Lanahan for The Hechinger Report. A ‘1-percent market’.

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Is the new education reform hiding in plain sight?

The Hechinger Report

Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Laura Pappano for The Hechinger Report. Smart tools like lesson software that adjusts to students’ responses (and automatically provides more practice when they stumble) can enable increasingly specific levels of independence.

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Using Timely Text Messages To Curb Missed Assignments and Class

MindShift

This time, working with the largest school district in West Virginia, they built software that communicated directly with the electronic gradebook that teachers were already using, and they used the phone numbers parents provided on class lists. ” Report cards come out quarterly. “The school is shut.”

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Federal relief money boosted community colleges, but now it’s going away

The Hechinger Report

Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report. And they’ve bought equipment and services designed to improve academic outcomes. Raritan put a chunk of its relief money — about $250,000 — toward a new software package that helps students map their shortest pathway to a degree. Credit: Steven Yoder for The Hechinger Report.

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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

Insight Venture Partners, a New York-based venture capital and private equity firm focused on software investing and majority owner of Illuminate and KDS, facilitated the combination. About Illuminate Education Illuminate Education is a leading provider of K-12 software and services. million students in 43 states.

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Erasing the Look and Feel of Poverty

Digital Promise

The district believes that by making its students feel equal to those in more affluent communities, they will start to see the same outcomes. With the belief that extracurricular activities can improve academic outcomes, the district launched a program the following year for third- and fourth-graders. Ending Social Promotion.