ACT has acquired Knovation, Inc., a curator of K12 open educational resources. The Knovation assets included in the agreement are the Knovation Content Collection, the netTrekker application and the icurio digital curriculum application.
Despite FAFSA's importance, one quarter of students don't complete it. A new report from the National Center for Education Statistics provides some context for why that is, with reasons ranging from the students' perception that they may not qualify for financial aid to the perception that the forms and application process are too burdensome to concerns about debt.
In this web seminar, literacy experts Dr. Mary Dahlgren and Michelle Elia explored how teachers need to be smarter than their programs, detailed effective solutions and interventions, and demonstrated how to supplement and strengthen core programs and to adapt pacing for individuals.
Educators look on the bright side (and the not-so-bright side) to predict where public schools will make the most progress and where they will fall short in 2019.
Amid rising parent and pediatrician concerns about the impact of devices on students' psychological and social development, some schools have started monitoring the amount of time students spend in front of screens.
Clovis USD's communications department chose eSchoolView to help with CMS consolidation, website redesign and the rollout of new websites for 53 schools.
District 11 in Colorado Springs adopted Achieve3000, which provides precision differentiated instruction, six years ago to improve literacy and college and career readiness.
School violence and teacher strikes dominated education news during 2018. But last year also saw empowered students voicing their frustrations: Youth activism surged around gun control, safer schools, immigration, voting and LGBTQ issues.