Q&A: How Tech Can Improve Youngsters' Reading Skills - Education Week

Two early learning experts outline how they want to see devices, apps, and software treated as tools to foster better reading interactions between children and adults.

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Long Beach District Sets Course to Personalize Teacher PD - Education Week

The closely watched California district recently launched a "myPD" platform to help teachers select their own training paths.

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Video Gaining as Key Tool in Teacher-Learning Plans - Education Week

As platforms evolve, more districts are using video to boost teacher collaboration and refine classroom practice.

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Online Credit Recovery in Need of Improvement, Study Says - Education Week

School districts need to make changes to their online credit-recovery programs to focus greater attention on content mastery and evidence of learning gains.

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As ELL Tests Move Online, Educators Hope for Better Gauge of Skills - Education Week

Most states will shift to new, computer-based assessments to measure their ELLs' English-language proficiency this school year.

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Florida Testing Disruptions Caused by Foreign Hackers - Education Week

A cyberattack that disrupted Florida's statewide exams was vast, but the culprits are "likely based somewhere outside the United States," and law-enforcement officials said last week that they have closed their six-month investigation without suspects or a motive.

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Countries where 15-year-olds use computers the most in classrooms scored the worst on digital reading and computer-based math tests, according to an analysis of 2012 results from the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA.

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Facebook Moves Into 'Personalized Learning' With Charter Network - Education Week

The social media giant is bringing its engineering talents to the K-12 arena by teaming up with the Summit Public Schools on a personalized learning system.

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Probing the Impact of Parent-Teacher Digital Communication - Education Week

Academic researchers are beginning to study what kinds of tech-based exchanges between educators and families bring the biggest academic payoff for students.

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Ambitious Initiative Blends Adaptive Tech, Open Ed. Resources - Education Week

The creation of an online platform by ed-tech company Knewton marks the most aggressive attempt yet to mix adaptive tools with open content.

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New Report Finds Ongoing iPad and Technology Problems at L.A. Unified - Education Week

Had things gone according to plan, every public school student in Los Angeles would be working on his or her own iPad by now and textbooks would be largely a thing of the past.

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