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Utah STEM Action Center Releases Exemplar Statewide Program Evaluation

MIND Research Institute

A new bar has been set for state-grants-funded digital math programs evaluation. The Utah STEM Action Center has released its 2020 annual report , which includes the results of their comprehensive statewide program evaluation. Ebook: Demanding More from Edtech Evaluation. Further Reading.

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With Budget Cuts Looming, Here’s How Districts Will Decide What to Keep or Cut

Edsurge

Evidence-based Investments There is a long-standing interest in spending academic intervention funds on programs with a record of success. To date, these requirements have been more of a compliance exercise than practical guides to good investments. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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The Actual Dollars That Will Shape the New K-12 Investment Ecosystem

Edsurge

For instance: Why is it that one elementary school gets $1800 more per pupil of state funds than the higher-needs school on the other side of town? This is the kind of work that Schenectady City Schools in New York has been advancing with their return on investment program evaluation model. Questions will immediately emerge.

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K-12 Educators and Administrators: Share Your Ed-tech Pilot Approach

Digital Promise

And, we’ll highlight the best examples from across the country on our website for others to learn from. Director of Research and Program Evaluation. “We first piloted an adaptive math program with elementary school students. ” Mahnaz Charania. Fulton County Schools. ” Larry White.

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Three Ways That Rural States Can Become the Hotbeds for School Edtech Innovation

Edsurge

For example, the Distance Education Grant has provided $200,000 each year for new course design and creation, professional development, program evaluation and maintenance and operational needs. We can be the example. Competitive grant funding has provided schools and communities the ability to customize and innovate.

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OPINION: Black-white disparities in education correlate with teachers’ implicit biases, but it will take more than education reform to solve the issue

The Hechinger Report

Such policies include, for example, mandating that police , healthcare workers and judges receive training to reflect on how their own racial prejudices might affect their work. For example, these biases may affect teachers’ demeanor and warmth toward Black students and their families. Related: Teachers go to school on racial bias.

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Michigan School Administrators’ Journey Toward Increased Equity and Inclusion

edWeb.net

Dr. Davis identified some key steps needed at the start of an equity journey, using his work with the diverse Holland Public Schools as an example. He has worked in urban, suburban, and rural districts as an elementary/middle school teacher, middle school counselor, elementary principal, and assistant superintendent of instruction.