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  • Changemakers: Meet the Educators Rethinking School in 4 Major Cities

  • The Alumni: Inside a Revolutionary Campaign to Get High School Grads Through College

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  • NEWS

    Personalized learning boosts math scores, new RAND study finds — but scaling is a challenge

    Students who engage in personalized learning do better in math than their peers, and charter schools are more conducive to implementing and scaling personalized learning programs than traditional schools, because of their inherent flexibility. These are among the findings of a new RAND Corp. study of 40 schools nationwide — 31 charters and nine traditional schools —...

    By Tim Newcomb | July 11, 2017


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    • Technology

    Darryl Adams got iPads, wi-fi for every student in Coachella. Here’s what he’s up to now

    Darryl Adams put an iPad in the hands of every one of the 18,000 students in the Coachella Valley Unified School District, one of the poorest districts in the nation. Then he installed Wi-Fi on school buses and parked those buses throughout the district’s 1,250 square miles, so those kids’ iPads could get online. “The...

    By Tim Newcomb | April 21, 2017


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    California high school nets $24 million from Snapchat investment, all thanks to curious VC dad

    While some schools may wrestle with the best way to handle Snapchat on campus, Saint Francis High School in Mountain View, Calif., has much bigger Snapchat-driven decisions: what to do with the millions it netted from an early investment in the massively popular disappearing-image app. The private Brothers of Holy Cross institution invested $15,000 in...

    By Tim Newcomb | March 16, 2017


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    • Classroom technology

    South by Southwest Education: 10 new ed tech startups about to grab the spotlight in Austin

    As the ed tech industry continues to expand, breaking into the game means facing stiffer competition from companies keen on occupying the same space. But as teaching, student learning, and the delivery of educational content continue to evolve, there has never been a greater opportunity to make a difference in the lives of the students....

    By Tim Newcomb | March 8, 2017


    • from the 74

    • Changemakers: Meet the Educators Rethinking School in 4 Major Cities

    • The Alumni: Inside a Revolutionary Campaign to Get High School Grads Through College

    • Exclusive: New Interactive Map Shows States’ Progress in Finalizing ESSA Plans

  • NEWS

    ‘I will be your valentine’: Navy dad surprises his 2 daughters at school after more than a year at sea

    Abella Aleman was intently reading her first-grade class a Valentine’s Day letter about her love for her dad, Omar, a Navy sailor who had been deployed overseas for more than a year. So intently, she didn’t even notice when he crept into her Rancho San Diego Elementary School classroom and stood behind her chair. As...

    By Tim Newcomb | February 13, 2017


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    • Hour of Code

    CodeSpark: The California startup that’s using apps and games to teach coding to 5-year-olds

    Reading ability isn’t necessarily a prerequisite for logical thinking. That’s why Grant Hosford, CEO and co-founder of codeSpark, a Pasadena-based startup developing computer science games for kids, has created a new app where reading doesn’t get in the way. And without barriers, Hosford is now teaching coding to kids as young as 5. “We get...

    By Tim Newcomb | February 19, 2016



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