THE News Update: LA Unified Appoints New Lead for 1-to-1 Program

1/21/2015

News & Issues

LA Unified Appoints New Lead for 1-to-1 Program
The Los Angeles Unified School District is rebranding its troubled 1-to-1 program and putting new leadership in charge of device and curriculum decision-making.
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Report: Many Schools Have Implemented Common Core, Lack Bandwidth for Tests
In districts that have adopted the Common Core State Standards, 95.7 percent of schools have already implemented the standards or are in the process of doing so, while the remaining 4.3 percent are still in the planning stage, according to a new survey of public school principals. However, only 53.6 percent report that they have sufficient bandwidth to conduct online assessments.
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5 Essential Multimedia Skills Every Educator Must Master
In a national survey, we asked teachers, administrators and tech leaders to tell us how technology energizes their classrooms. Here are their top five answers.
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High School Girls Create Their Own Wearables at MIT Workshop
MIT's Lincoln Lab hosted 50 high school girls last month for a "Make Your Own Wearables" Workshop.
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Researchers Publicly Release Photo Album of Universe
A collaboration of 51 schools and laboratories have released the final set of data from a six-year program of research that used a wide-field telescope in the southwest to survey the distant universe, the Milky Way galaxy and extrasolar planetary systems.
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