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Digital learning is different

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textbooks, documents, paintings, audio recordings, and movies) as well as one of the most commonly used physical resources: teachers. Students need to have access to some high-quality digital resources starting in elementary school. These include human-made items (i.e.

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Making Math Class Relevant to Real Life

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For example, Marylands state board has flagged that it wants every student career ready by the end of 10th grade. And although historically focused on middle and high school, the model will reach back into elementary school, as the company is developing a "bridge" course meant to sharpen the skills students need before entering pre-algebra.

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Is the Traditional Classroom Becoming Obsolete?

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Too many students don’t reach grade-level metrics and no one can agree on the cause. Today’s students demand more than just traditional lectures and textbooks; they’re looking for an engaging, flexible, and personalized learning experience. Something broke in American education these past years.

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IXL Approved by Missouri Department of Elementary and Secondary Education as a State-Approved Supplemental Literacy Solution for Grades K-5

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The platform’s curriculum for grades PK-2 is designed according to research-based best practices for effective early literacy instruction and focuses on systematic, structured phonemic awareness and phonics instruction.

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These Colleges Are Betting That Culturally Relevant Textbooks Will Improve Student Outcomes

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Millie González and her colleagues aren’t here to argue about whether open educational resources are on par with traditional textbooks?she culturally relevant textbooks? Usually when you hear any discussion about free textbooks, it really talks about just the cost, and what we’re saying is, it goes way beyond that.”

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Better Know a District Superintendent: Dr. Philip Hickman’s $800K Textbook-for-Technology Swap

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But by fifth grade I should understand more specific science and medical related careers, maybe something like biotechnology or biochemistry, and be aware of these other professions. When I first started, on July 28, 2014, the superintendent before me had ordered close to a million dollars’ worth of textbooks.

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Discovery Education Presents Three New Virtual Field Trips

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This virtual field trip is appropriate for students in grades 6-12. The Be Vape Free initiative has at its core the proven-effective CATCH My Breath program which equips students in Grades 5-12 with the science-based background knowledge and practical refusal skills necessary to avoid risky behaviors like vaping.

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