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Data & Analytics
Data Can Help Schools Confront 'Chronic Absence'
A new report from Attendance Works and the Everyone Graduates Center encourages schools and districts to use their own data to pinpoint ways to take on the challenge of chronic absenteeism.
09/22/16
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21st Century Teaching & Learning
Curriculum and Instruction: Brewing a Better Vocabulary
Get a room full of educators and ask them about digital learning, blended learning, hybrid learning, personalized learning or individualized learning, and you'll likely end up with more definitions than people in the room.
09/21/16
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Funding, Grants & Awards
E-rate Update Helping Add Internet, But Not Enough
The biggest allotment of E-rate requests in applications for fiscal year 2016 was dedicated to data and internet service. More than $2.3 billion focused on that type of funding help, with the E-rate portion totaling $1.8 billion and the applicant portion covering $559 million.
09/19/16
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STEM
New AIR Report Offers Vision for Accomplishing STEM for All
An aspirational vision for STEM education is set out in a 73-page report just issued by the American Institutes of Research and written by one of the foremost national experts on the subject.
09/15/16
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Research
Newest NMC/CoSN Horizon K-12 Report Emphasizes Kids as Creators
Over the next year K-12 will be placing more emphasis on coding as a form of literacy and on students as creators. Schools that don't already have makerspaces will want to get them and online learning will start to look like something that's typical rather than out of the norm. Those are the "short-term" trends and technologies that surfaced in the 2016 K-12 Edition of the NMC/CoSN Horizon Report.
09/15/16
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