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Charting New Territories in PD: The Whitsby Story with ASCD

The CoolCatTeacher

She has held several leadership positions with education companies, most recently Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Achieve 3000, Kaplan K12, and Renaissance Learning. Prior to that, they completed their Bachelor of Science degree in Secondary Education – Science at Bloomsburg University of Pennsylvania from 1990 to 1993.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

Edsurge

Maia Sharpley’s career in education includes serving in executive positions with the New York City Department of Education, Kaplan and Charter Schools USA. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology.

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7 ways schools can get creative with STEAM

eSchool News

But the move from STEM to STEAM can also impact the way students synthesize abstract mathematical concepts and make new brain connections, according to Denise Douglas-Faraci an associate professor at Kaplan University’s college of education who frequently works with teachers at the intersection of art and math. Build deeper learning.

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October 24 - Ed Tech News, Our Weekly Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The system is a little weird, since you can''t see all of the proposals in one area (they are categorized into primary, secondary, and tertiary blocks based on arbitrary ordering of session submissions by one individual), but here are direct links to panel proposals I made: "School 2.0:

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Or the company will have to start charging for the software. In 2018, Mozilla said it would retire Backpack, its platform for sharing and displaying badges, and would help users move their badges to Badgr, software developed by the tech company Concentric Sky. The End of Library" Stories (and the Software that Seems to Support That).

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Purdue University is buying Kaplan University for a dollar. Me, I wrote about how far Kaplan Inc ’s reach is in education politics and products. ” I’m more interested in hearing about segregation and state laws in Mississippi than the adaptive learning software a school is using. Or something else? ” Oh.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” IPEDS is the government’s database tracking post-secondary education statistics, including enrollments and graduations. Via The Washington Post : “A hiccup in Purdue ’s acquisition of for-profit Kaplan University.” .” Roy Moore has just been elected Alabama ’s new Senator.

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