Boom Back-to-School Symposium Schedule
This three-day Back-to-School Symposium features over 20 speakers, including teachers, specialists, therapists, publishers, and more!
USA Federal Funding Cheat Sheet
Does Boom Qualify for Federal funds? The short answer is yes. Let us help you apply.
What Schools and Teachers Can Do to Keep Student Data Safe
This is a guest post, written by Indrė Vaicekavičiūtė of Cybernews. Similar to the marketing agencies that use predictive analytics to develop promotional strategies, schools collect and store student addresses, contact numbers, performance reports, and social security numbers to improve their offerings. With the help of these analytics, schools can better promote enrollment and retention, …
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Why Schools Should Embrace ChatGPT and Its AI Siblings
Schools are concerned about ChatGPT. The founder of Boom Cards thinks they’re another a tool in students’ toolkit.
Back-to-School Symposium 2022
This two-day Back-to-School Symposium features over 20 speakers, including teachers, specialists, therapists, publishers, and more!
The Research is In: Our Approach to Testing is Wrong
In the past 16 years we’ve imaged brains and tested students. We have no better information about how to use testing to improve schools now than when we started. We do now know that human variability is not mere noise to be ignored by categorical systems, such as standardized testing, but rather it directly affects outcomes. It is time to walk away from the Twentieth Century obsession with standardized testing and develop a Twenty-First Century approach that combines neuroscience learning with effective intervention.
HR 610
HR 610 wants parents to abandon at-risk students in exchange for $370 in vouchers per kid. Is the current focus of ESSA just right? That is worth a closer work (can you say testing third graders?). But is throwing it out the solution? HR 610 does just that.
Equal Justice Under IDEA
The Supreme Court holds special education students are entitled to justice, but not equal opportunity, under IDEA.
What Changes Stays the Same
States will stay the course this year on how they implement testing. #testingiscoming
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