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DATA SHOWS SCHOOLS STRUGGLE TO MODERNIZE CLASSROOM PRACTICES

Survey Shows More Than Half Of Schools Deemed Traditional By Their Teachers

Webcast Offers Best Practices for Dyslexia Instruction and Intervention

Reading Horizons , a multisensory curriculum used to rapidly increase reading skills, today announced its upcoming webcast,  Dyslexia: Best Practices for Instruction and Intervention . Th...

Free Webinar from Its Learning

UDL and Personalized Learning: The Path to Deeper Learning

New Online Maker Community for Educators and Fans

“Makey Makey Labz” invites users to “go beyond the banana piano” by making projects found on the site and creating and sharing their own

Workbench to Provide Maryland Public Libraries with Its Virtual Maker Space

Edtech company Workbench and Maryland’s network of public libraries have partnered to launch an online maker space for libraries throughout the state. Libraries are increasingly becoming hubs fo...

Exploring Advanced Placement® Offerings Beyond the Traditional School Model

Digital Learning Boom Leads One Rural School to Expand their Teaching Model

Detroit Public Schools Community District Adopts Literacy Courseware in 65 Schools

myON provides a personalized literacy environment through high-quality digital texts

Leadership Development Program for Colorado Educators

Novel certificate program uses peer-team approach to help turn around state’s low-performing schools

Bloomz Offers Class Messenger Users a One-Click Transition to Keep Communication Going After Shutdown

Educators can easily import their class and parent information, and automatically invite their classroom parents to the new app

Student Performance Results on Smarter Balanced Assessments, Now Able to be Forecasted

Achieve3000, the Leader in Differentiated Instruction, can now forecast student performance on the Smarter Balanced ELA assessments, expanding on the number of state tests for which educators can forecast results.

IXL Introduces Personalized Recommendations Feature to Help Students Make Informed Learning Choices

Today, IXL Learning announced the release of personalized recommendations for students on IXL , a K-12 adaptive learning program used by 1 in 9 U.S. students. This new tool helps students make ...

The Virtual High School Announces New Computer Science Initiative

New VHS computing certificate program announced as part of White House Computer Science for All initiative

Apperson’s Evo SEL Named One of District Administration’s Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products

Apperson’s Evo Social & Emotional assessment has been named one of District Administration’s Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products. The Top 100 Products awards feature the best education tools se...

Colorado Digital BOCES Expands Students’ Career Technical Education and Elective Offerings

Students at Rocky Mountain Digital Academy and Mountain View Virtual have access to Fuel Education’s Online Courses and Career Readiness Pathways™

SolidProfessor Sponsors DraftSight LIVE at SOLIDWORKS World 2017

SolidProfessor  is proud to sponsor the first  DraftSight LIVE  event during Dassault Systèmes’ SOLIDWORKS 2017, being held February 6-7, 2017 at the Los Angeles Convention Center in Los Angele...

Credo Commits to Learning Community with edX Partnership

Credo – an industry leader for information literacy, critical thinking, and research solutions –announced it is contributing features and enhancements to the open edX initiative, the leading...

myON Named a “Readers’ Choice Top 100 Product”

Nominations from top K12 leaders led to the selection of products that enhance learning across the country

SchoolMint Wins a 2016 District Administration “Readers’ Choice Top 100 Products” Award

Cloud-based student enrollment and school choice system recognized by three industry-leading awards in 2016

Boxlight Launches ‘MimioTeach for Your Time’ Initiative

Administrators Get Free Portable Interactive Whiteboard After Participating in One-Hour Demonstration

Mahoning County Education Service Center Provides More Post-Secondary Opportunities

Online courses support students at districts and the county’s Career and Technical Center prior to high school graduation


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