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

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Follow education technology-reform projects, and you’ll find mixed academic outcomes and expensive consultants. One high-profile version of this type of event occurred in Newark back in 2010, after Facebook billionaire Mark Zuckerberg gave a matching $100 million-dollar donation to the New Jersey school district. Probably not.

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Communications Tips for School Leaders

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That's why we've designed a communications guide for school leaders and districts, with tips, examples and resources. And just because Facebook works for the district down the road doesn’t mean it will work for you; take the time to figure out what channels work for your district. Show, don’t tell. But don’t stop there.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Still in its early stages, this ambitious project relies on a little-known public resource – a slice of electromagnetic spectrum the federal government long ago set aside for schools – called the Educational Broadband Service (EBS). ” Also via The Hechinger Report : “The future of proficiency-based education.”