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Science Outreach with Teachers, Dinosaurs
The fossils and data collected all help UW scientists investigate the extinction that ended the age of dinosaurs 66 million y...
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Infographic: Growing Up Google
Backupify has created an infographic to explain the rapid adoption of Google Apps in education.
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Mythbusting: Q&A with K12 Leadership
Following up on the release of a candid academic report in February, Tom Vander Ark visited K12 Executives last week and sha...
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Jen Robert's Classroom in the Cloud
Jen Roberts is an amazing high school English teacher. She encourages her students to use mobile apps to collaborate and publ...
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It’s Time for The Next Big Advance: Comparable Growth Measures
The most important next step in the shift to personal digital learning is the need for comparable growth measures for individ...
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States Report Challenges in Their Race to the Top
Last week, the Department of Education released reports for 12 Race to the Top grantees, detailing their progress (or lack thereof) on transforming education at the local level. The reports highlight the second-year work and accomplishments and challenges of implementing new information systems and the required tougher...
3 months ago by Tom Vander Ark
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Four Strategies in Four Years that Will Transform a Community Forever
Annually, for more than 45 years, the city of Reynoldsburg, Ohio has celebrated the Tomato Festival-- a nod to its heritage as the birthplace of the commercial tomato. This middle-America town also boasts one other claim to fame: A so-called "traditional" LEA, namely Reynoldsburg City Schools (RCS), which is poised to ...
5 months ago by Lisa Duty
EdTech
The old deal, the new deal, and the metrics
I don’t know about you, but I’m not paying much ...
one year ago by Tom Vander Ark
Learning
The race to platform education
Across the full spectrum of education – primary, secondary, and higher – we are witnessing a race to develop platforms for content, learning, teaching, and evaluation. As liberating as the web is, tremendous centralization of control is occurring in numerous spaces: Google in search/advertising/Android, Amazon in b...
one year ago by Guest Author
Learning
Good Evaluation Requires Good Data—And Sound Judgment
The superintendents and school district human resource officers I spoke ...
one year ago by Tom Vander Ark
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Compass Learning provides educational software that empowers educators to unlock the potential of every student by making learning personal. We serve nearly 8,000 schools and millions of students across the United States.
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The Cost-Comparability Conundrum
We’re stuck and $365 million may not help. The United ...
one year ago by Tom Vander Ark
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Innovate Procurement Unleash Innovation
Canyons and rivers form faster in the United States than ...
one year ago by Bryan Setser
