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      <title>2014 GED Test Aligned with New National CCR Standards for Adult Education - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[GED Testing Service recently released The Climb to Alignment which shows the alignment between the 2014 GED test and specific standards that are most important to indicate college and career readiness. For example, the adult education CCR standards require adults to demonstrate basic computer skills, and the ability to build arguments based on evidence-the same kinds of skills that employers expect. ]]></description>
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      <title>Baltimore County Chooses the SAFARI Montage Digital Learning Platform - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Baltimore County Public Schools has chosen SAFARI Montage Digital Curriculum Presenter (DCP) to support their recently announced initiative to provide 1:1 digital learning environments for all BCPS students, beginning in 2013-14.  DCP will be used to deliver the district's digital curriculum, including their new elementary-level world languages curriculum, to all BCPS classrooms and student mobile devices. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Free Website Makeover from Schoolwires® for Fall Mountain RSD - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[A search of district websites to identify best practices in district branding and community engagement led Fall Mountain Regional School District (FRMSD) to enter and win the Schoolwires Website Makeover Contest. FRMSD will receive a new district website built on the Schoolwires Centricity2TM content management system. ]]></description>
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      <title>New Study Shows UK Schools Moving Rapidly To Adopt Cloud Computing - World Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[SafeGov.org, in partnership with the Ponemon Institute, today released the results of a survey of UK schools designed to measure the views of school staff on the rapidly rising use of cloud services in the education sector and the potential risks to student privacy.  The study focused on cloud versions of email and document collaboration tools.]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>AEP To Host Two LRMI Sessions During ISTE - Announcements</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/announcements/aep-to-host-two-lrmi-sessions-during-iste.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) will host a concurrent session, The New Age of (Web) Discovery: New Resource Metadata Standards, and a Birds-of-a-Feather Roundtable, LRMI: The Dewey Decimal System for the Digital Age, during the 2013 International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference in San Antonio, Texas. Both sessions will focus on the Learning Resource Metadata Initiative (LRMI)....]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/23/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Report Urges States To Build Coherent Professional Learning Systems - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[State education leaders should take the lead in efforts to create more coherent, comprehensive, and sustained statewide professional learning systems that help educators at every level meet the promise of the Common Core, according to a new policy brief released today by Learning Forward. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/22/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>New Course Frameworks Offer Blueprints for Teaching with OER - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/higher-ed-market-headlines/new-course-frameworks-offer-blueprints-for-teaching-with-oer.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Lumen Learning and Instructure broke new ground for open education today with the introduction of six open course frameworks that make teaching with open content easier and more effective than ever before. Now freely available for anyone to access through the Canvas platform, these frameworks serve as blueprints instructors can use for designing and teaching general education courses based exclusively on open educational resources (OER). ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/22/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Unicon Updates Open Source Support Program - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Unicon, Inc. announced that it has updated its Open Source Support program to add more value and flexibility. The program is designed to cost-effectively support select enterprise open source projects, to assure the reliability of supported environments, and to drive the progress of the open source projects. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/22/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Smithsonian Online Education Presents Two Sessions on Astrophotography - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Smithsonian Center for Learning and Digital Access is hosting two online education conferences for teachers and students June 12 and July 10 that showcase astrophotography as a prime example of the intersection of these two subject areas.]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/22/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <description><![CDATA[The Association of Educational Publishers (AEP) and the Association of American Publishers (AAP) are pleased to announce an agreement to merge to provide the strongest services for the preK-12 education publishing industry in a rapidly changing environment. AEP and the AAP School Division have developed a strong working relationship through numerous successful collaborations. 
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      <pubDate>5/22/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>EBSCO Publishing and EBSCO Information Services Merge - Business Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[EBSCO Industries, Inc. announces the EBSCO Information Services (EIS) and EBSCO Publishing (EP) businesses will merge on July 1, 2013 and will operate as a single business under the name EBSCO Information Services (EBSCO). Tim Collins, a 26-year EBSCO veteran and previously President of EBSCO Publishing, will serve as President of the combined entity. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/22/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>LearningStation™ and itslearning, Inc. Announce Strategic Partnership - Business Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[LearningStation™, provider of robust, student assessment platforms today announced its partnership with itslearning, the digital learning platform of choice for teachers.  The two companies have joined forces to offer a comprehensive solution that combines the personalized digital learning platform from itslearning with LearningStation's assessment platform, Insight.]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/22/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Per Student Public Education Spending Decreases in 2011 - Featured News</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Fiscal year 2011 marked the first decrease in per student public education spending since the U.S. Census Bureau began collecting data on an annual basis in 1977, according to new statistics released today (dollars not adjusted for inflation). The 50 states and the District of Columbia spent $10,560 per student in 2011, down 0.4 percent from 2010. The top spenders were New York ($19,076), the District of Columbia ($18,475), Alaska ($16,674), New Jersey ($15,968) and Vermont ($15,925). Total expenditures by public elementary and secondary school systems totaled $595.1 billion in 2011, down 1.1 percent from 2010. This is the second time total expenditures have shown a year-to-year decrease, the first time being 2010.  
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      <pubDate>5/21/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>SETDA Releases "Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning" - Featured News</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[To raise awareness about many of the major K-12 data standards and interoperability initiatives underway to address these and related issues, the State Educational Technology Directors Association (SETDA) today released a new report entitled, Transforming Data to Information in Service of Learning. SETDA developed this new report to help education leaders understand how technical interoperability initiatives relate to teaching and learning and to offer recommendations for how states, districts, and schools can become more responsive to educator needs and personalize learning for students.]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/21/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Edgenuity Offers Enhanced PD Services - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
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      <pubDate>5/21/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Sesame Workshop Partners with Teaching Strategies - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today, Sesame Workshop and Teaching Strategies announced a multi-year partnership to develop a series of educational offerings for the preschool classroom using the proven content of Sesame Street. Over the next five years, the partners will create multiple innovative products for both the home and school and expect their initial offering to pilot in the fall of 2013.]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/21/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Mac® SW Coming in June for FrontRow Juno® Classroom Audio System - Technology Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[FrontRow Juno users can download Mac-compatible software to add automated lesson capture and system control to their portable classroom audio systems starting in June. This release will run on Mac OS 10.6 (Snow Leopard), as well as with the Windows® 8 operating system. All Juno hardware shipped since April 1, 2013 can use the new software.]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/21/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Schools Gear Up for 12th Annual National Mix It Up at Lunch Day - Announcements</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Registration is now open for the 12th annual National Mix It Up at Lunch Day event, Teaching Tolerance announced today. More than 5,000 schools across the country are expected to take part in the event, set for Oct. 29. Teaching Tolerance, a project of the Southern Poverty Law Center,. launched Mix It Up at Lunch Day in 2002... 
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      <pubDate>5/21/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>CourseSmart eTextbooks Now Includes Online and Offline Capabilities - Higher Ed Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CourseSmart® announced CourseSmart eTextbooks, a significant upgrade to its dedicated mobile application specifically designed for the Android Operating System (AOS). In response to customer demand, CourseSmart's new Android app features both online and offline access to digital course materials,  ensuring that students and faculty who rely on their Android mobile devices are never without the materials they need]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/20/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>6th Annual Flipped Conference To Be Live Streamed - Announcements</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[The 6th Annual Flipped Conference is scheduled for June 18-19 in Stillwater, Minn., and worldwide through the FlipCon13 Virtual Conference live stream. Virtual attendees can participate in keynote sessions with speakers Jon Bergmann, Aaron Sams and Ramsey Musallam; a panel of students, parents and educators; and 28 concurrent sessions. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/20/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>ISTE 2013 Awards Honor Education Leaders - Announcements</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) announced the outstanding education leaders that will be honored at the world’s premier educational technology event, ISTE 2013, in San Antonio, June 23-26. “The 2013 ISTE award honorees are living examples of the how educators are, right now, using thought leadership, advocacy and innovation to leverage technology to transform learning and teaching,” said Brian Lewis, ISTE CEO. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/20/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Teachers Call for Social and Emotional Learning in School - Featured News</title>
      <link>http://www.ednetinsight.com/news-alerts/featured-news/teachers-call-for-social-and-emotional-learning-in-school.html</link>
      <description><![CDATA[Teachers across America believe that social and emotional learning is critical to student success in school, work and life, according to a new national survey released today at the 2013 CASEL Forum. The survey, highlighted in “The Missing Piece,” a report by Civic Enterprises with Hart Research for CASEL: Collaborative for Academic, Social, and Emotional Learning, also found that teachers believe social and emotional skills can be taught, and that the development of those skills in all students should take far more priority in U.S. schools and state learning standards than they do today.
 
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      <pubDate>5/18/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Vantage Learning Launches Two New Teacher Tools - PreK-12 Market Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[CorrectEnglish® Teacher Edition reviews students' essays for grammar, usage, style and mechanics. Teachers can spend up to an hour working on an individual student’s essay. SPMS Classroom is powered by a computer-adaptive test that assesses each individual student's capabilities and provides prescriptive instruction that focuses on the student’s areas of weakness. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/18/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>School Specialty Adds Royal Seating Brand - Business Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[School Specialty, Inc, now owns full rights to the brands and the exclusive distribution rights to the Royal Seating™ line of K-12 furniture. Royal Seating will now be exclusively marketed and sold by School Specialty, expanding the company's proprietary Furniture & Equipment stable of products.]]></description>
      <pubDate>5/7/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Grockit and BBC Worldwide To Pilot BBC Earth Content on Learnist - World Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Social learning company Grockit, announced today that BBC Worldwide, the commercial arm of the BBC, has become the latest partner to offer content for its social learning platform, Learnist. BBC Worldwide has curated a BBC Earth multimedia board, as part of a new “Earth Science” category on Learnist. This offers fans of environment and life sciences the opportunity to interact with a host of BBC Earth content. ]]></description>
      <pubDate>4/27/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>New HP Catalyst Academy Launches - World Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today an unprecedented global collaboration designed to accelerate STEMx* education was announced by the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE®) and the New Media Consortium (NMC). The 2013 HP Catalyst Summit in São Paulo, attended by more than 120 educators and policy leaders from 15 countries, marks the launch of the HP Catalyst Academy, designed to accelerate STEMx education, transform teaching practices and continue to close the global skills gap.
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      <pubDate>4/15/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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      <title>Dell Empowers Youth with Technology Access, Support and Tools To Enhance Learning - World Headlines</title>
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      <description><![CDATA[Today at Clinton Global Initiative University, Dell announced that more than 250,000 youth in 15 countries will be reached in 2013 as part of its Powering the Possible youth learning initiative. The goal is to help close the learning gap for youth worldwide who may not have access to the facilities, teachers and technology they need for a better education.]]></description>
      <pubDate>4/6/2013 12:00:00 AM</pubDate>
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