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Senator Lamar Alexander (R-TN), chairman of the Senate Education Committee, and Ranking Member Patty Murray (D-WA) have said that the committee is making significant progress toward rewriting No Child Left Behind (NCLB) and expects to have markup legislation for consideration by the middle of next month. MoreLos Angeles Unified School District teachers are moving to a new professional development site that will centralize all of their learning opportunities. MoreThe San Diego Supercomputer Center at the University of California, San Diego is now accepting applications for the 2015 SDSC Research Experience for High School Students summer program, which runs from June 22 to August 14 at SDSC. More
University of Southern California's Rossier School of Education has teamed with a private partner to launch an online course focused on strategies to differentiate instruction for English language learning students in an effort to prepare them for Common Core assessments. The course is one of four that, taken together, comprise the "Equity Educator Certificate Program." MoreAcer is expanding its line of its Chromebox devices, which, like Chromebooks, run on Google's Chrome OS. Unlike Chromebooks, they come in a desktop form factor (somewhat resembling an external hard drive enclosure). MoreThe combination of a Mindstorms Education EV3 robot and the app is designed to allow teachers and students to get started in robotics within a 45-minute classroom period.
MoreThe Foundation for Excellence in Education (ExcelinEd) has launched a series of free, self-paced courses focused on education reform and designed specifically for policymakers. MoreNaiku, a provider of classroom assessment software, has launched a series of free monthly professional development webinars focused on learner-centric assessment practices. More
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