Spotlight
People over age 25 who have a college degree live an average of a decade longer than high-school dropouts, according to a new report from the Population Reference Bureau. MoreA new report from the Center for American Progress fund that teacher professional development programs are severely lacking and need to be changed to produce improvements in teaching practices and student learning outcomes. MoreThe vast majority, 84.3 percent, of district technology leaders have a "high level of interest" in implementing or expanding a one-to-one mobile program in their districts, though only 12.1 percent currently have one-to-one classrooms in their districts, according to the National Survey on Mobile Technology for K-12 Education. MoreFollowing the Federal Communications Commission's (FCC) recent decision to review and modernize the E-rate program, which helps schools and libraries pay for Internet access, the Fiber to the Home Council Americas (FTTH Council) has petitioned the FCC to now establish a Gigabit Communities Race to the Top program. More
Technology in Schools
State School Superintendent John Barge and Governor Nathan Deal have announced that Georgia is withdrawing from the Partnership for Assessment of Readiness for College and Careers (PARCC) consortium and plans to develop its own standardized tests. MoreJunior High School 189 Daniel Carter Beard in Queens has launched a blended learning program to provide students elective courses. The program will serve students in grades 6 through 8. MoreThe Utah Governor's Office of Economic Development (GOED) has announced plans to expand its Smart School Technology Pilot Program to deploy whole-school technology, including one-to-one mobile devices, to more Utah public schools. MoreCalifornia's Fillmore Unified School District will launch an online high school, the Fillmore Digital Academy, in the fall in an effort to allow students to balance school with other responsibilities and interests. MoreLiberty County School District has taken its teacher evaluation and professional development processes from paper-based to digital in an effort to provide more timely and relevant feedback to teachers. MoreA collaboration between the University of the Free State in Bloemfontein and the Free State Department of Education is using webcasts in an effort to improve learning outcomes for South African students in at-risk schools. MoreIn an effort to manage, simplify, and improve internal communications for teachers, parents, and students, Huntsville, Alabama's Madison County School System will implement an advanced communications networking technology platform. More
New in Ed Tech
Senkatel has launched two new Android-based tablets for education, including one built around an Intel Atom processor. MorePresenceLearning has launched a new dashboard aimed at providing special needs program administrators with data for monitoring the progress of students participating in online speech therapy programs. MoreSurveyMonkey has teamed up with Harris Interactive to support the Harris Poll School Pulse satisfaction tool for school leadership. MorePowerPoint plug-in Snap! by Lectora has released version 1.4, featuring compatibility with PowerPoint 2013 to turn PowerPoint content into interactive Flash content for e-learning courses. MoreLexia Learning has released Lexia Reading Core5, a technology-based reading program designed to help students of all abilities in prekindergarten through grade 5 meet the Common Core State Standards (CCSS) in reading. MoreNetop has released an update to two of its classroom monitoring and management tools, Vision and Vision Pro. The latest updates allow teachers to display demonstrations on students' Android and iOS devices. More
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