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?Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too

Edsurge

Students need access to tools that work. Five factors currently drive this demand for improving the quality and scalability of education technology: Higher academic standards nationwide. A focus on college and career-training readiness. So far, 3,100 school districts have taken the Future Ready pledge.

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1EdTech and Common Good Learning Tools Launch Major Upgrade to Database of State Learning Standards

eSchool News

CASE Network 2 is a significant upgrade to the current CASE Network that provides access to K-12 learning standards in a digital format. This increased costs and made it difficult to ensure fidelity (especially when standards were updated). and access revision histories of those standards. 1edtech.org.

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On the importance of making a (reopening) plan

NeverEndingSearch

After seeing Cathi’s message on the Future Ready Librarians’ Facebook Group , librarian Kim Borden, from the Penn Argyl (PA) School District, responded to the call. School librarians form relationships and connections with every single student and teacher who walks through the doors of that school.

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