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3 Ways to Achieve a Successful School Improvement Initiative

EdTech Magazine

Using that information, administrators chose to integrate DreamBox , a software solution designed to help math teachers teach and assess students. After one year, students who participated in the program scored on average 97 percent higher on the STAR assessment than those who did not, according to a case study.

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Case Study: A “mega” school district negotiates a better deal

Education Superhighway

Prince William’s Director of Information Technology Services, AJ Phillips, used Compare & Connect K-12 to see the kinds of broadband services that other large Virginia districts procured and to assess how their bandwidth pricing compared to that of other mega-districts.

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Edtech Reports Recap: Video Is Eating the World, Broadband Fails to Keep Up

Edsurge

Connected Nation bases the analysis in its “Connect K-12 2020 Executive Summary” on FCC E-Rate application data for the 2020 federal fiscal year. Think lots of nuts-and-bolts, this-should-go-into-a-checklist details punctuated with brief case studies.

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Case Study: A “mega” school district negotiates a better deal

Education Superhighway

Prince William’s Director of Information Technology Services, AJ Phillips, used Compare & Connect K-12 to see the kinds of broadband services that other large Virginia districts procured and to assess how their bandwidth pricing compared to that of other mega-districts.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

Finally, somewhat for the sake of brevity, I have excluded consideration of the role of the E-rate (which is overseen by the Federal Communications Commission and not the U.S. 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). 2012 and 2012 (ARRA case studies). ” How would the program operate?

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Learning Analytics 2018 – An updated perspective

IAD Learning

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. Case studies show: the validity of predictive models applied to learning analytics, interventions with at-risk students are effective, and. Does it work?

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10 Big Hurdles to Identifying and Educating the Nation’s Smartest Kids

MindShift

issue, plus case studies on gifted education from a dozen countries around the world. students are classified as “high achievers” in mathematics, according to the most recent international assessments. ” Failing Our Brightest Kids: The Global Challenge of Educating High-ability Students by Chester E.

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