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Next Gen Science Standards 101

The Institute for Science and Math Education at the University of Washington recently offered a crash course on the Next Gene...

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DragonBox: This Is How You Gamify

DragonBox develops a user’s fundamental skills in algebra before teaching its context and application.

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Know Think Do

For John Danner, learning can be thought about in three parts: the need to know things, how to solve problems, and how to be ...

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Celebrating MOUSE: 15 Years of Engaging Kids, Narrowing Divide

MOUSE celebrated their 15th Anniversary on May 20th with a student led exhibit demonstrating the latest technologies and by h...

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Charter School Authorizing 2.0

Within the richness and diversity of the ed reform sector, the practice of charter school authorizing isn’t the trendiest. ...

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Scholastic Releases New EdTech Products

During last week's ASU Education Innovation Summit, Scholastic unveiled the largest release of educational technology products in the history of the company. Among the six new product offerings released, iRead(TM) and MATH 180(TM), bring focus to Scholastic’s mission, “We can be greater ”.

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Mind Trust Develops The Smart Cities Formula

Inspired by talent development shops like Teach for America and charter networks like KIPP, Harris deployed his core insights in a way that has became a national model. As the Bay Area became an ecosystem of innovation, The Mind Trust’s founders wanted to cultivate in Indianapolis a similar climate of talent, creativ...

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ASU Opening: Is America a Submerging Economy?

Investor Robert Grady moderated the opening panel at the ASU/GSV Education Innovation Conference in Scottsdale with perennial presenter Chris Whittle, CEO of the pricey global school network Avenues, and Jon Schnur, America Achieves. They agreed that patterns of excellence have emerged from world class models domestica...

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Aerospace Scholars Offers Blended STEM Experience

While demand for engineers in the workplace is growing, student interest in the STEM field is declining. In particular, students who enter high school interested in engineering, tend to become disengaged in the field as they approach graduation. An educational program located in Washington State hopes to stop that tren...

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Good Work: Tapping the Dark Matter

“Education is like the night sky; edreform offers a few points of light and the rest is dark matter,” said Nick Donohue. “The real opportunity is deeper public engagement--tapping the dark matter.”

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EdTech 10: Innovation on the Brain

Team Getting Smart has “ innovation on the brain” this week (even more than usual) as we gear up for next week’s ASU/GSV Education Innovation Summit (#EIsummit). The Getting Smart crew will be there learning, speaking, and blogging about eduinnovation.

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Preparing for the Future

The future of education will be on display next week in Arizona, at the Education Innovation Summit. There will be a wide range of speakers and panel discussions, which I am really looking forward to hearing.

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