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How Are Schools Harnessing Technology?

Joy Resmovits | Posted 04.07.2013 | Politics
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When it comes to education, the role and effects of technology has been a tough nut to crack. As tomorrow's Digital Learning Day approaches, education groups and officials are offering up their recommendations.

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Are New Online Standardized Tests Revolutionary?

| Sarah Garland | Posted 12.10.2012 | Home
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This piece comes to us courtesy of The Hechinger Report's HechingerEd blog. New high-tech standardized tests are coming soon to schools across the ...

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Policy 'Insiders' Overwhelmingly Agree: Jeb Bush Speech Best On Education

Posted 09.28.2012 | Home
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Whiteboard Advisors, a consulting firm that specializes in school policy, recently conducted one of its monthly surveys of 50 to 75 anonymous politica...

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New Standardized Tests Behind Schedule: Survey

HuffingtonPost.com | Joy Resmovits | Posted 07.18.2012 | Home
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When asked about the problems associated with standardized testing -- cheating, overtesting, blunt measures of student achievement -- U.S. Secretary o...

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