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EDC Highlights Ready to Learn Evaluation

Five-year research of New PBS literacy programming

EDC, our parent organization, has posted a brief feature article, "Thinking Outside the Book," on its website that describes our evaluation of PBS and CPB's Ready to Learn Initiative programming.
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About CCT

At EDC's Center for Children and Technology, we investigate the roles that technology can play in improving teaching and learning within children's classrooms, schools and communities. We also design and develop technology applications that support engaged, active learning and student-centered teaching practices. Our work seeks to inform stakeholders at across the educational system and shape programs and polices at the local, regional and national levels.

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Data-Driven School Improvement Book Set for March Publication

Teachers College Press will publish in March a new book on using data to support decision-making, Data-Driven School Improvement, that grows out of CCT's work and includes several CCT staff among its contributors. Edited by Ellen B. Mandinach and Margaret Honey, the book features chapters by CCT's Cornelia Brunner, Naomi Hupert, and Daniel Light.
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Digital Technology and the End of Social Studies Education

Reflecting on educational technology in social studies education, Bill Tally recalls the critical voice of the late Neil Postman and offers his responses to several key questions posed by Postman on technology's role in the social studies classroom. Originally published in Theory and Research in Social Education, a journal of National Council for the Social Studies.
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