Certica’s 80,000-plus item bank of assessment tools will now be available via Skyward’s existing student management system.
Blockly for Dash & Dot Robots enables kids as young as five to instruct the robots to sound an alarm, work through a maze of objects and control one another.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 08/03/15
NVBots has launched a new set of lesson plans, available through the NVLibrary, featuring 3D printable components.
The custom course builder has been redesigned to allow educators to identify and organize the building blocks of a course so they can personalize the learning experience for each student.
- By Christopher Piehler
- 07/30/15
A new study found that in two-year colleges, only 4 percent of instructors found students "most generally able to do what is expected." The number was slightly higher in four-year schools: 12 percent. The rest reported that students had arrived to higher ed with at least some gaps in preparation.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/27/15
Kaplan Early Learning has launched a series of augmented reality tools designed for use in kindergarten and elementary school classrooms.
The potential successor to No Child Left Behind — the Every Child Achieves Act — passed in the United States Senate Thursday in a bipartisan vote of 81-17. This bill is a proposed replacement for the current version of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which funds public education in this country.
- By Dian Schaffhauser
- 07/16/15
With the first round of computer-based Common Core assessments complete, here are a handful of tech tools that will help teachers and students prepare for the next round.
- By Anna Martin, Shannon Smith, Jesse Wray
- 07/16/15
Governor Asa Hutchinson lauded the board's vote, saying that it had “reached a final decision that I think is best for our students and teachers over the long term. It provides stability and aligns Arkansas with a nationally recognized testing system.”
- By Christopher Piehler
- 07/13/15
Ohio has become the latest state to bail out of PARCC, one of the two major state consortia focused on developing Common Core assessments. That leaves just 10 states, plus the District of Columbia, as participants.