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2017

The Almanac: South Fayette High School Students Win National Competition
THE Journal: Digital Promise Global Seeks Alpha Testers for Learner Positioning System
Hechinger Report: Blended Learning
EdSurge: Real Life Learning: An Up Close Look at Competency-based Education
KCAW: To Teach Innovation, Sitka Schools Ramp Up Makerspace Program
THE Journal: Competency-based Education in Action: School Districts Share Advice
Education Dive: Rural Districts Band Together to Promote Innovation Across Schools
NCCE: Guest Post: Leading Innovative Schools: Some Views From 30k Feet
The Daily Journal: School, Businesses Seek to Close Digital Divide: Redwood City Community Collaborates to Help Improve Student Opportunities
EdSurge: The Hard Truths and False Starts About Edtech Efficacy Research
The 74 Million: $8 Billion a Year on Ed Tech, but Does It Work? Experts Call for Better Research at Unique D.C. Symposium
Education Dive: Are Micro-credentials the Key to Personalizing Professional Development?
EdSurge: Fusion: Bringing Personalized Learning Together
The 74 Million: #ShowTheEvidence: Building a Movement Around Research, Impact in EdTech
EdWeek: Ed-Tech Pilots That Appeal to Teachers
THE Journal: Digital Promise Selects Winners for filmMAKER Challenge
Education Week: Customizing Professional Development through Micro-credentials
Education Week: School Districts Update Professional Development
EdSurge: Grill That Edtech Company with These 6 Questions Before Buying Anything
San Diego Union-Tribune: Vista Supe Brings School Reform to Silicon Valley
Spartanburg Herald-Journal: Robot Helps Autistic Students at McCarthy Teszler Bridge Communication Barriers
Education Dive: VR Filmmaking Projects Offer Potential for Powerful Lessons in Empathy
The Hechinger Report: Using Virtual Reality to Step Into Others’ Shoes
EdSurge: Can a District Disrupt the Edtech Industry?
The Christian Science Monitor: Appalachia’s New Trail: Finding Life After Coal
Education Dive: Santa Ana USD Digital Transition Highlights Importance of Professional Learning
EdTech Magazine: Q&A: Melissa Dodd on Filling in the Access to Tech Gap
eSchool News: Why STEM Education Could Get a Transformative Makeover—Soon
Education Week: Helping Companies Identify Math and Science Practices Backed by Robust Research
Getting Smart: Smart List: 30 School Districts Worth Visiting
EdScoop: Lower Costs, Newer Tech Help Virtual Reality Become a Reality in the Classroom
Education Dive: Tuesday at SXSWedu: Higher Ed Access and Future-Ready Librarians
Hechinger Report: OPINION: Three misunderstandings about open resources
EdSurge: Expanding Access to Edtech Isn’t Enough. We Need to Make Sure It Works, Too
EducationNext: Competency-Based Learning for Teachers
Education Week: Patricia Deklotz: Recognized for Leadership in Innovation
Education Week: 18 Tips for Making Blended Learning More Student-Centered
KQED MindShift: Can Micro-credentials Create More Meaningful Professional Development For Teachers?
NottinghamMD.com: Eastern Tech, Parkville High VR films Receive Awards in National Competition
CBS19 Charlottesville: Monticello Students Nationally Recognized for Tackling the Issue of Bullying
EdScoop: Digital Promise Releases ‘Research@Work’ Video Series to Help Educators, Developers
Hechinger Report: How Can Schools Avoid Repeating Each Other’s Mistakes
The Huffington Post: Sparks of Change: A Look Inside Innovative Schools
Forbes: The 32 Million Disruptive Adult Learning Opportunities
Education Week: Are Microcredentials the Next iPhone?
eSchool News: Does Growing Student Diversity Mean a Renewed Focus on Personalized Learning?
EdSurge: Buying or Building Research-Backed Edtech? The Government Can Help
THE Journal: What’s Hot: 9 Major Ed Tech Trends for 2017
Hechinger Report: School of Me: Letting Students Study What They Want, When They Want is the Latest Education Trend
EdSurge: Finding ‘Personalized Learning’ and Other Edtech Buzzwords on the Gartner Hype Cycle

2016

Forbes: Developing Our Understanding Of Personalized Learning
KVPR.org: Student By Student, Lindsay Schools Erase Digital Divide
Veja (In Portuguese): “Technology Democratizes Learning”, Says Expert
eSchool News: 8 Steps to Evaluating Ed-tech Products
Education Dive: Superintendents Find New Ways to Network Nationwide
Edutopia: Networked: How Today’s Education Leaders Make Decisions
MeriTalk: Digital Promise Releases Ed Tech Pilot Framework
Education World: Framework Helps School Leaders Pilot New EdTech in Step-by-Step Process
THE Journal: Digital Promise Offers Free Framework for Tech Pilot Programs
EdSurge: Digital Promise Rolls Out Free Tool to Help Execute Pilot Programs
Educational Technology Guy: Ed Tech Pilot Framework – Excellent Resources for All Schools
EdScoop: 8 Steps to Pilot Smarter K-12 Edtech Product Tests
The Hechinger Report: Blended Learning
Education Week: Ed-Tech Pilots: New Resource Tries to Help K-12 Districts Get Them Right
The Hechinger Report: Blended Learning
EdSurge: Which Edtech Companies Are Producing the Best Research-based Products?
Edutopia: Pen Pals 2.0: Can Technology Foster Global Tolerance?
Black Enterprise: East Harlem School Kids Get iPads, Free Data Plans
WBAL-TV: Educators from across country visit Md. to see language program
Education Week: The OER Landscape has Something for Every District
NBC News: 18-Year-Old Millionaire, Robotics Scholar Teach Students the Power of Technology
EdWeek Market Brief: Conquering Teachers’ Tech Anxieties a Recurrent Theme at iNACOL
THE Journal: Parents Buy into Potential of Ed Tech; Most Don’t See Learning Results
Education Week: ‘Red Flags’ to Look for When Evaluating Personalized Learning Products
Education Week: Data Dive
Education Week: Checking Up on Personalized Learning Pioneers
Information Age: HP Opens UK Learning Studios to Tackle the Digital Skills Gap
Roswell Patch: Fulton Schools Join Group Promoting Innovation in Education
Kokomo Perspective: Kokomo Schools takes the Digital Promise
THE Journal: Digital Promise Network Encourages District Innovation
Fox 21 News: Two Colorado Springs Middle Schools Get Grant for New iPads
The Hechinger Report: What Does It Take to Make an Innovative School?
Getting Smart: Vancouver Pilots Comprehensive Open Math Curriculum
North Fulton Neighbor: Fulton County Re-joins League of Innovative Schools
eSchool News: 19 New Districts Join League of Innovative Schools
KSMU.org: Missouri Superintendent of the Year Goes to Springfield’s John Jungmann
The Hechinger Report: What Does It Take to Make an Innovative School? Here’s a List Five Years in the Making
MorristownGreen.com: Morris School District Chosen for National Innovation Program
Irondequoit Post: East Irondequoit Accepted Into League of Innovative Schools
B-Town Blog: Highline Public Schools Computer Science Efforts Receive National Praise
EdWeek Market Brief: Rhode Island Makes Its Pitch to Ed-Tech Developers As Lab for Innovation
EdWeek Market Brief: Personalized Learning Needed in Increasingly Diverse Classrooms, Report Says
Christian Science Monitor: What If Volunteers Had a Craigslist to Help Public Schools?
Times of San Diego: Vista High School Awarded $10M to Create ‘Super School’
Getting Smart: 10 XQ Super Schools Announced: Leading the Way in Rethinking High School
EdSource: Three California Schools Awarded $10 million Each to ‘Reimagine High School’
Education Week: 10 High School Redesign Projects Win $100 Million in ‘XQ Super School’ Contest
EdSurge: XQ Institute Announces 10 Winners of ‘Super Schools’ Competition
The San Diego Union-Tribune: Vista High Lands $10 Million Innovation Grant
EdScoop: Personalized Learning Can Aid Increasingly Diverse Classrooms
THE Journal: New Report on Personalized Learning Recommends Use of ‘Learner Positioning Systems’
Education Week: Personalized Learning in 2016: What’s Working, What’s Missing?
EdSurge: What the Savviest School Administrators Know About Education Technology
El Paso Herald-Post: Five El Paso ISD Middle Schools to Receive iPads
EdScoop: Carnegie Mellon University Researchers Dive Into Edtech Pilots at Innovative Districts
Stanford Social Innovation Review: Making School New
eSchool News: 3 Ways Innovative Schools Advance Maker Learning for All
Education Dive: How Schools are Getting Maker Ed to All Students
EdSurge: What Machine Learning and Draymond Green Have To Do With Education
District Administration: Micro-credentials Provide Highly Personalized PD
THE Journal: President Unveils New Initiatives During National Week of Making
EdScoop: Tech Enthusiasts Trek to Washington for National Week of Making
U.S. News & World Report: Building a Nation of Makers
Education Week: Can ‘Deeper Learning’ Drive Teacher Power?
Education Week: The ‘Maker’ Movement Is Coming to K-12: Can Schools Get It Right?
Education Week: Testing Tech Products in the Classroom
Getting Smart: Making Education Research Available to All
EdSurge: Pittsburgh: Providing the Blueprint for Citywide Maker Education
The San Diego Tribune: Education in the Digital Age
T.H.E. Journal: Digital Promise Launches Web Tool to Find Ed Research
EdScoop: New Tool from Digital Promise Connects Educators, Startups to Research
KQED Mindshift: Digital Promise Puts Education Research All In One Place
Education Week: Online Tool “Maps” Ed Research for School Districts, Business Leaders
WESA 90.5: Avonworth ‘Maker Space’ Encourages Innovation And Creativity
TribLive: South Fayette Middle School a high-tech hub
WESA 90.5: Western PA School Districts Promise To Support Maker Movement
Hazard-Herald: Hazard Independent Among 17 in East Kentucky’s KVEC Region Nationally Recognized for Education Innovation
Remake Learning: How Digital Promise is Helping Sow Networks of Learning Innovation, One Region at a Time
EdSurge: Heard & Overheard on Day 1 of ASU+GSV Summit
The Hechinger Report: Are Ed-Tech Financiers Beginning to Listen to Teachers?
Education Week: Educators’ ‘TED’ Talks-Style Forum Leads Up to ASU+GSV Summit
Education Dive: Is Micro-credentialing the Future of K-12 PD?
Education Week: Can ‘Micro-Credentialing’ Salvage Teacher PD?
Make: White House Backs National Week of Making, Building High School Makerspaces
EdSurge: White House and Barack Obama Scale Up TechHire Initiative, Push for More Makerspaces in K-12
EdScoop: Contest offers prizes to educators for sharing practices in classrooms
Getting Smart: League of Innovative Schools District on Improving Low-Income Student Outcomes
Education Dive: Creative approaches can make coding more fun, accessible
eSchoolNews: 4 Ways Forward-Thinking Districts are Inspiring More Students to Code
The Huffington Post: School District Invests in “Erasing the Look & Feel of Poverty,” Sees Big Returns
The New York Times: Bridging a Digital Divide That Keeps Schoolchildren Behind
Education Dive: Measuring the costs and benefits of new ed tech
eSchoolNews: The major momentum behind micro-credentials
NorthJersey.com: Clocking-in to class from home: Local districts put virtual school days to the test
The Seventy Four: WATCH: Inside South Carolina’s Campaign to Empower Students with Technology #EDlection2016
The Hechinger Report: U.S. schools have more computers than ever. But what are they doing with all that (expensive) technology?
TribLive: South Fayette schools grab Obama’s attention
The New York Times: Forward Tinkering: Colleges Make Room for Maker Spaces
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette: AIU, 4 county schools receive White House recognition for computer science education
NJ.com: Elizabeth Public Schools recognized by White House for computer science initiatives
Salisbury Post: RSS recognized in White House announcement
T.H.E. Journal: BloomBoard Intros Curated Collections with Micro-Credentials
The Hechinger Report: Forget snow days. How one school district uses this time to teach students — and fill their bellies with food
Getting Smart: What You Need to Know When Developing Micro-Credentials
Bucks County Courier Times: Bristol Township ‘Tiger Techs’ get a glimpse of technology on the horizon
District Administration: Outlook: Deluge of mobile devices

2015

Education Week: The K-12 Marketplace: What to Look for in 2016
EdScoop: Privacy, broadband, No Child Left Behind among big topics of 2015
Education Week: New Tool Helps Districts Evaluate Ed-Tech Companies’ Claims of ‘Evidence’
T.H.E. Journal: UC Davis and Digital Promise Report on How To Run Better Ed Tech Pilots
Getting Smart: 30 Districts Worth Visiting 2015
Education Dive: Survey examines barriers to evaluating purchasing ed tech
Education Week: Districts Struggle to Judge Ed-Tech Pilot Projects
EdSurge: Digital Promise’s Guide to Running Effective Edtech Pilots
Education Week: Little consistency in how districts judge ed-tech through pilot tests, study finds
EdScoop News: Micro-credentials, the new gold star for teachers, show concrete evidence of learning
Getting Smart: Rethinking Educator Professional Development with Micro-credentials
eSchool News: How micro-credentials could have a chance
T.H.E. Journal: New partnership will provide micro-credentials to teachers
Getting Smart: EdTech 10: It’s a Small World
Hechinger Report: To the future and beyond: A new class of innovative schools joins a growing network of educators who share best practices
eSchool News: 22 districts join network of innovative school systems
Education Week: Once Micro-credentials are Explained, Teachers are Willing to Pursue Them, Study Finds
Bangor Daily News: Maine teachers to get online access to professional development
Bright: What Kind of Smart Are You? How “maker” education is priming our kids for the kind of intelligence that matters most
Getting Smart: Micro-credentials for Personalized, Powerful Professional Learning
Education Week: Family partnerships are key to digital equity
Kokomo Tribune: Digital Promise coaching aims to enhance Kokomo Schools’ technology use
The Huffington Post: The Global Search for Education: The New UN Agenda – What Is the Role of Education?
eSchool News: 4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates
District Administration: Edtech purchasing: What CIOs need to know
FedScoop: Education app developers overlook a target audience: adult learners
Philadelphia Inquirer: Philly’s adult literacy problem
Hechinger Report: Tablets and other tech offer ways to track teacher performance beyond just standardized tests
Education Week: Regional Partnerships Emerging to Support K-12 Innovation
FedScoop: Education innovation “clusters” coming to Chicago
Knoxville News Sentinel: Bearden, Carter middle move to one-to-one technology
Education Week: Amazon Top Pick for Contract to Create N.Y.C. Schools’ e-Book ‘Marketplace’
MIT Technology Review: Lessons Learned
Bright: How Should We Approach Education’s Digital Divide?
Maui News: Middle school students get a tech boost with iPads donated by Verizon
Hechinger Report: Let students lead a digital learning transformation, and you might be surprised by what happens next
Buzzfeed: Baltimore’s Challenge: Buy Computers For 100,000 Kids, And Don’t Mess It Up
Education Week: Schools, Organizations to Compare Notes on Education Innovation Clusters
Quartz: These third graders spend 75% of their day on iPads, and their teacher doesn’t mind a bit
Stephenville Empire-Tribune: SISD on its way to digital transformation
Edutopia: Deeper Learning in Practice
StateScoop: Schools rethink how to pilot edtech programs
Education Week: Student Tech Use at Home Is Tricky Balancing Act
Getting Smart: Preparing Leaders for Deeper Learning
T.H.E. Journal: New Report Shares Personalized Learning Guidance
Marketplace: Giving every kid a computer and a connection
Education Week: Johns Hopkins’ Education School Reviews Educational Products for Companies
California Schools magazine: After-School Connections
Time: The Next Experiment in Education
Education Week: K-12 Librarians’ Roles Shift to Meet Digital Demands
The Columbian: School district hosts national meeting
Education Week: Four Lessons for Today’s Education Leaders
Hechinger Report: As market surges, schools struggle to find the best tech products
PBS Newshour: Tech giants battle for classrooms
Education Week: Staging Better Trial Runs of Ed-Tech Products in Schools
Politico: Many students wired at school feel digital divide at home
The Atlantic: When Students Can’t Go Online
Bucks County Courier Times: Tablet roll out finally taking shape in Bristol Township middle schools
Education Week: Digital Promise to Create Network of Education Innovation Clusters
EdSurge: Targeting Deeper Learning with Micro-Credentials
Alliance for Excellent Education: Culture Shift: Making Innovation Contagious
Anniston Star: What apps are most useful in classrooms?
EdSurge: How to Make Micro-Credentials Matter
Raleigh News & Observer: Carroll Middle School students to receive personal tablets

2014

McClatchy: School buses bring Wi-Fi to impoverished families
The Atlantic: Can a School’s Tech Program Take a Rural Town out of Poverty?
Hechinger Report: Preparing for the future: Summits to help schools make smart technology choices
WRAL-Raleigh: Carroll Middle among 8 schools nationwide to win tablets
Los Angeles Times: How L.A. Unified got its iPad contract
Levittown Now: Truman STEM Program Helps Area Students Succeed
KQED Mind/shift: How Rural Schools Paid for Students’ Home Internet to Transform Learning
Tampa Bay Times: When it comes to technology, Florida schools struggle to keep up with students
MediaBistro: AAP Honors Educational Publishing Leaders
Getting Smart: 25 Districts Worth Visiting
The Columbian: Teacher-librarians fill high-tech role
Hechinger Report: Is the next Khan Academy star a teacher in D.C. Public Schools?
Education Week: League of Innovative Schools’ Leaders Share Ideas, and Common Frustrations
Education Week: Ed-Tech Vendors Often in Dark on District Needs, Study Shows
Education Week: Who Calls the Shots in School Purchasing? Vendors, K-12 Officials Disagree
Buzzfeed: School Districts Are Really Bad At Buying Technology
EdSurge: Bringing Order and Transparency to a Dysfunctional K-12 Marketplace
Politico: Ed-Tech Blues
Daily Northwestern: Two District 65 schools receive iPads through national learning program
Edutopia: Leading and Learning for a Successful Digital Transformation
The Coast News: iPad donations are a game-changer for Vista students
Education Week: Making the Big LMS Buying Decision
St. Paul Pioneer Press: iPad training for east metro teachers targets personalized lessons
Al Jazeera America: The digital divide in American Schools
Education Week: Middle Schools’ 1-to-1 Tablet Deployment to Be Studied
KQED Mind/shift: What Are the Most Powerful Uses of Tech for Learning?
USA Today: Technology access lacking, uneven in Miss. schools
EdSurge: So You Think You Can Educate Adults?
USA Today: A cheaper, faster version of a college degree
Education Week: It’s Time: Connecting What Students Need and What Entrepreneurs Create
EdSurge: Digital Promise Kicks Off Micro-Credentialing With Summer Pilot
Slate: Tablet-Sized Teachers
Hechinger Report: Digital education is supposed to transform public education, but many schools can’t even get online
eSchool News: 7 big problems–and solutions–in education
Hechinger Report: Wanted: More gutsy leaders to drive schools into digital age
KQED Mind/Shift: 7 Big Hurdles In Education and Ideas For Solving Them
EdSurge: League of Innovative Schools Adds Nine New Members
FOX Business News: Online Education: Can it Solve the Employment Problem?
National Public Radio: For The Tablet Generation, A Lesson In Digital Citizenship
Education Week: ‘Learning Menus’ Empower Students to Tailor Curriculum
T.H.E. Journal: 5 Best Practices of Tech-Leading Superintendents
The Economist: Wiping out the blackboard
EdSurge: Obama Spotlights Needs of Young Adult Learners

2013

Huffington Post: Obama ConnectED Initiative Aims To Get Classrooms Online
EdSurge: Karen Cator: “Close the Digital Learning Gap”
AL.com: Education nonprofit praises Baldwin County schools’ Digital Renaissance
U.S. World and News Report: The Latest Tools for Teaching STEM: Video Games
Education Week: Ed. Leaders Balance Risk-Taking and Failure
Education Week: Building a District Culture to Foster Innovation
Education Week: K-12 Leaders Shift From Protectors of Status Quo to Change Agents