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LearnWith.AI Launches TeachTap, the first AI-powered learning app for AP exam prep and high school courses

eSchool News

By combining a social media-style interface with academically rigorous content, TeachTap makes learning more fun, efficient and accessible than ever before. By combining a social media-style interface with academically rigorous content, TeachTap makes learning more fun, efficient and accessible than ever before.

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Making the case for common K-12 standards

eSchool News

In this ever-dynamic landscape, “commonstandards for education seemingly get a bad rap, but they’re useful, particularly for the development and distribution of open education resources (OER). When OER curation was in its infancy, there were few common standards in place for vetting and cataloging this content.

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Why Efforts to Improve Teacher Productivity and Efficiency May Not Pay Off

Edsurge

Rather, investments in education—both public and private—made at the local, state and national level have been spread across a range of activities committed to making the “line teacher” more effective at delivering learning to their “customers” (students).

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From Silos to Sharing: Why Are Open Educational Resources Still So Hard to Find?

Edsurge

There is also the US Department of Education’s Learning Registry, which contains resources created by various parts of the US Government. These resources are all freely available in the Learning Registry and can (and should) be made available in any state or other registry via API. Forty-two states and Washington, D.C.

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Writing Is Still How We Communicate

TeachThought - Learn better.

Among the biggest changes the Common Core Standards require is the shift in the burden of general literacy. In any learning, writing is a seamless fit. And here we are, and the Common Core Standards (no matter what you might think of them) are asking all teachers to teach writing. by Terry Heick.

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Understanding ESSA: How the Every Student Succeeds Act will Change U.S. Educational Policy

eSpark

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. Blended Learning. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. ESSA ensures that all U.S.

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After years of neglect, Mississippi takes baby steps to boost school readiness

The Hechinger Report

What started as a treasure hunt had become a logic game in Quitman’s state-funded pre-K classroom, a free early learning experience that’s only recently become available to a small number of students in Mississippi. From the time they come in, the learning starts,” Shows said. “If Closed from the world’.