Common Core Tech Update
 
3/19/2015

Features

  • 3 of 10 District IT Leaders Report Full Readiness for Online Assessments

    This year's top priorities among IT leadership in K-12 are assessment readiness, wireless access and mobile learning, in that order. Those are the same priorities as last year, with the difference that wireless beat out mobile learning. Those and a number of other findings surfaced during this year's K-12 IT Leadership Survey Report from the Consortium for School Networking (CoSN), a professional association for school and district IT leaders.

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  • What Tech Skills Do Students Really Need to Take PARCC Assessments?

    In the 2014-2015 school year, nearly 12 million K-12 students in public districts will take college readiness assessments online for the first time. In order for them to perform successfully, it is vital that both students and teachers have the technology skills that the new tests require.

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  • 7 Best Test-Prep Apps for Students

    Common Sense Media’s service Graphite, which offers independent ratings and reviews of learning apps and websites, has compiled this list of the best apps to help students prepare for standardized tests.

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  • Research: How Twitter Has Shaped the Common Core Debate

    The continued unraveling of the Common Core makes for compelling drama — at least that's how a research project has begun presenting it.

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  • Testing Is Biggest Moneymaker for Education Technology Vendors

    Software vendors and publishers raked in $2.5 billion on digital assessment products in the United States in the latest school year for which there is data, according to a new report. The total market for software and content in U.S. preK-12 education was up by $480 million to $8.38 billion.

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  • Will Gifted Education Weather the Common Core?

    According to a new study, some districts and states believe that the Common Core gives them a reason to "ditch" services for gifted students, equating the standards with advanced education.

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