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Schools Drop Acellus Learning Platform Over ‘Glaring’ Offensive Content

Edsurge

The content in question includes a first-grade language arts video lesson that shows an Acellus instructor teaching about the letter “G.” As with any distance learning program, teachers at the school level are also reviewing content before they are assigned, similarly to how textbooks are used for instruction.”

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Achieve3000 updates blended learning, differentiated instruction tools

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To support schools and districts across the country and around the world, the company has created state-customized editions of its patented, nonfiction blended learning literacy solutions: · KidBizPro®, TeenBizPro®, and EmpowerPro® for English language arts, science and social studies in grades two through 12. Textbook Alignment Courses.

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Standardized Tests Aren’t Going Anywhere. So What Do We Do?

Cult of Pedagogy

We recognize that there’s something fundamentally different about large-scale, externally mandated standardized tests that rely on multiple-choice questions. “ As a concrete example of why that synchronization is necessary, multiple states allow a high degree of local control over the curriculum.

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64 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Roger Sands, CEO & Co-Founder, Wyebot Students and teachers will have a wider and wider choice of materials. Every year, we move further away from the “one size fits all” mentality that was the original textbook. Rather than traditional, multiple-choice questions, technology will interact with students at a greater clip.

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65 predictions about edtech trends in 2024

eSchool News

Roger Sands, CEO & Co-Founder, Wyebot Students and teachers will have a wider and wider choice of materials. Every year, we move further away from the “one size fits all” mentality that was the original textbook. Rather than traditional, multiple-choice questions, technology will interact with students at a greater clip.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

Edsurge

Reading back over a textbook or taking lecture notes with a highlighter at the ready is often done by students, for instance, but these practices have proven of limited merit, and in some cases even counterproductive in aiding recall. As a result, teaching is, to use another building metaphor, not up to code.

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