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Integrate OUR Curricula into Your Kiddom Digital Platform

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They received excellent ratings from EdReports , a leader in evaluating textbooks and curricula for rigor, usability and alignment to academic standards. A growing body of research names curriculum as a critical factor in academic success.

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How Mississippi made some of the biggest leaps in national test scores

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Mississippi Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes with trends and top stories about education in Mississippi. The National Assessment Governing Board report points to several key strategies that have led to these achievements: 1. Subscribe today!

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Standardized tests in their current format are ‘incredibly antiquated’

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Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every other Wednesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. They argue the solution isn’t to get rid of assessments, however, but to redesign them to be more effective.

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OPINION: How top charter schools became an ‘afterthought’ in one state

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The decline has accelerated, and results from the 2019 National Assessment of Educational Progress (NAEP) have pushed the state into the “learn-from-our-mistakes” category. Academic standards were the next to go. The troubling trend continued with state English and math tests aligned with the new, weaker standards.

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3 Things Educators and Edtech Suppliers Need to Talk About

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Open rubrics from the 1EdTech community can help start the vetting process on data privacy , security , accessibility and generative AI , while CASE Network 2 helps to align those tools with academic standards. The ecosystem as a whole is making a major impact.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

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At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. We focused on the essential needs of the market—curriculum, assessment, and intervention—which aligned with our core competencies and interests. Sometimes very hard.

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K-12 and Higher Ed Institutions Lead Consortium to Advance EdTech Innovation and Trust

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Does your school district or higher ed institution use a learning management system (LMS), digital curriculum resources, learning tools, assessment applications, a badging platform, a single-sign-on application launcher or a student information system? Now, this integration can take just a few minutes.

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