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What Will Schools Do in the Fall? Here Are 4 Possible Scenarios

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“The spectrum of crisis distance learning ranged from ‘drive-by’ course material pickups to telephone check-ins to haphazard online lesson plans and ad-hoc video conferences, all of which can be considered a low-fidelity migration to support continuity,” the authors write. Below are summaries of the four scenarios the authors lay out.

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When School Districts Buy From Amazon, Are They Getting the Best Deal? Maybe Not.

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Communities, a cooperative purchasing program for local governments and school districts, with the option to renew for three additional two year periods. The report authors write that U.S. In 2017, Amazon won an five-year public sector contract with U.S. Communities estimated that the contract’s value could be worth $5.5

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An Education ‘Intrapreneur’ on the Difficulties Innovating in a Conservative Industry

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Larry Singer: I went to a college at the university called Johnston College, which had all narrative evaluations, and a negotiated class contract. It became clear to me that those in public sector, in state and local government, in higher ed, and in K-12 had potentially a very different role. What were you thinking at that time?

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