Thinking back to our last standardized paper exam experiences, some common themes we might find are ridiculously long testing hours, way too many questions that seemed to ask the same things with different wordings, cramped wrists, and having to wait weeks to know how well we did. Rocketing into the tech-savvy age we live in,…
It seems that, just about every other day, a new video is released of an unnecessarily violent police altercation, or of an irrationally angry shopper slinging slurs in the produce aisle, or of a certain individual touting a certain symbol a little too proudly. While these instances are infuriating, it’s important to note that they…
As we get better at pulling out our phones and pulling up our cameras, the world is beginning to realize what BIPOC have known all along: racism doesn’t take breaks. Fighting systemic racism and dismantling institutional white supremacy happens at marches and protests, but it also happens in every other facet of our lives, especially…
Glenarden, MD – July 24th, 2020 – The Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (DESE) has awarded AdaptiveX, an industry-leading adaptive testing company, with $305,000 in project funds to be a fundamental contributor in the Department’s Cultural Proficiency Professional Development project. The project tasks AdaptiveX with analyzing and understanding culturally sustaining practices, pedagogy, and…
By:Alprentice McCutchen On March 19th 2020, as New York City’s 1.1 million students prepared to be home for their first full week of Covid-19 school closures, this was also the day when the largest school district in the United States offered laptops to more than 300, 000 students. These laptops, along with acquired WIFI access…