THE News Update: Researchers To Study Student Achievement at Virtual Schools

5/26/2015

News & Issues

New Report Shares Personalized Learning Guidance

The recommendations are based on findings shared at a summit hosted by North Carolina State University's Friday Institute for Educational Innovation.
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Researchers To Study Student Achievement at Virtual Schools
Researchers from University of Michigan, Stanford and University of California, Davis have received a $1.6 million grant to conduct a three-year study of virtual schooling.
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Colorado League of Charter Schools Turns to Nonprofit To Improve Assessment
The Colorado League of Charter Schools has teamed with a private partner in an effort to improve student assessment at charter schools across the state.
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Adds New Developer Portal
Houghton Mifflin Harcourt has launched the HMH Developer Portal, a new online interface where developers, designers and educators can access the company's newly exposed application programming interfaces (APIs) to create new learning applications and integrate them with HMH applications.
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Hitachi Introduces Two New HDBaseT Projectors
The CP-WU8461 and CP-WU8451 LCD projectors both offer HDBaseT Ultra HD video networking capability along with 60 percent improved contrast, WUXGA resolution and other enhancements.
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