Excelligence Learning Corporation has acquired the Letter People and the DIG comprehensive pre-K curriculum from Abrams Learning Trends. The Abrams products acquired will be incorporated into Frog Street Press, a subsidiary of Excelligence.
SAS launched free artificial intelligence (AI) software for teaching and learning, a new analytics simulation game, AI certifications and badging, and a Boys & Girls Club coding partnership.
The California Department of Education is calling for schools to have half of all K-12 students on track for proficiency in two languages by the end of the next decade. But districts are facing another hurdle: A report shows that the number of teachers with bilingual certifications has decreased from about 1,500 annually in the 1990s to around 700 in 2015-16.
Computer technology has had a major impact on education over the years, but K-12 hasn't completely abandoned paper and textbooks. The much anticipated ed tech transformation has not quite come to pass. Here are 11 barriers to technology integration in public education.
It's important to give students time to work through their thinking and to struggle. Not only do people learn through struggle, but puzzling through a tricky math problem resets expectations about how much time a math problem takes.
Transitioning to teaching online can leave many educators feeling unprepared. Here's how to make the shift to teaching from behind the computer screen.
This web seminar addressed how administrators can facilitate discussions about the effective use of data and how to improve teachers' relationship with data. Sponsored content by Istation.
Curriculum development teams must review and select resources that align with standards, grade-level expectations and assessments. During the review process, a team should typically review five or more different resources and narrow them down to two, according to Align the Design, an ASCD publication co-authored by Ann Mausbach and Nancy J. Mooney in 2008. The […]
