by admin | Sep 18, 2015 | Industry News
“According to an article in the New York Times, the state of New York will shorten its Common Core-aligned assessments for third through eighth graders this year. Education Commissioner MaryEllen Elia announced the change at a Board of Regents meeting on...
by admin | Aug 24, 2015 | Industry News
As Education Week reports, “[t]he U.S. Department of Education approved Friday additional renewals of state flexibility from mandates of the No Child Left Behind Act for Florida, Idaho, Ohio, and South Dakota, leaving just a handful of waiver states waiting in the...
by admin | Aug 4, 2015 | Industry News
“The first set of questions Woltering said he hopes to answer with his research are focused on self-regulation: why some students can control their attention and emotions better than others; how self-regulation plays out over a lifetime; and whether self-regulation...
by admin | Jul 21, 2015 | Industry News
Summer break can be a setback for student learning, as students are not required to practice skills like math and reading on a regular basis like they do during the school year. MetaMetrics, the company behind Lexile Framework for Reading, has partnered with the...
by admin | Jul 14, 2015 | Industry News
Education Week reports that “[i]n an unexpected move, U.S. Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., moved to close debate on the chamber’s bipartisan bill to overhaul the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, invoking cloture on the underlying bill...
by admin | Jun 24, 2015 | Industry News
As EdTech becomes increasingly prevalent in U.S. schools, administrators are faced with many choices for laptops and tablet devices to serve their student population. District budgets are finite, and the tech devices offered evolve rapidly, so how can educators know...
