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Wow! This inquiry-based, technology-rich school has no tech staff

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In my second year, in an effort to get technology into the hands of the students, foster authentic inquiry, and break the “test-prep” mentality which has come to dominate many a school landscape, I launched Inquiry Fair. Another inquiry-based initiative we are always working on is our Next Generation Curriculum model.

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Twig Science Nevada Approved for Statewide Use

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The Nevada Department of Education has adopted Twig Science Nevada , a complete Pre-K–6 curriculum from leading education multimedia company Twig Education , making it available for purchase statewide. Educators and schools can get started using the curriculum by visiting Twig Science Nevada. They can’t wait for the next lesson.”.

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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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Random assignment is intended to ensure the treatment and comparison groups are the same along both measurable characteristics such as test scores as well as unmeasured characteristics such as motivation to learn. This could mean that the groups of students have similar scores on a state test or a pretest relevant to the study.

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

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Nevertheless, in the year following its founding, Lexia won a major grant from the National Institute of Child Health and Human Development to fund product research, design, and development. It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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?Tressie McMillan Cottom on For-Profit Higher Ed, Purdue, and Dream Data Sets

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It jumpstarted a moment in research for us. There is this whole world of open access communities out there that have built a plethora of tools that really do everything that they say they needed Kaplan to do, everything from the design of curriculum design to delivery. And doing that meant Purdue would’ve owned it.