EdWeek Update: November 14, 2013: November 14, 2013

Your daily education news and insight for November 14, 2013. View as web page.

Emiliano Abramzon, the co-founder of Nearpod, a startup that offers teachers a digital platform for designing interactive lessons and delivering them to students on tablets, puts a high value on partnerships with publishers.

Tech Platforms, Publishers Join Forces to Sell Content

In the crowded field of ed-tech startups seeking to go to scale, companies with distribution platforms and those that develop instructional materials are merging their resources. Read more.

(Education Week)

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Ed. Department to Scale Back Key Waiver-Renewal Mandates

States seeking extended NCLB flexibility no longer would have to come up with plans to ensure that poor and minority students have equal access to effective teachers. Read more.

(Politics K-12)

COMMENTARY

A Promising Academic Model for Students With Disabilities

Most students with disabilities have the cognitive ability to achieve the same academic standards as their nondisabled peers, Candace Cortiella and Kalman R. Hettleman write. Read more.

(Education Week)

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Startups See inBloom as Appealing Partner

The biggest integration opportunity for many ed-tech startups may be with inBloom, a nonprofit group that has been the target of critics over issues related to the privacy of student data. Read more.

(Education Week)

• Lawsuit Filed in New York to Halt inBloom Program

Former U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords, center, holds hands with her husband, Mark Kelly, while exiting Town Hall at Fairfield Hills Campus in Newtown, Conn.

Rep. Giffords and Sandy Hook Mother Co-Author Anti-Violence Lesson Plan

In anticipation of the one-year anniversary of the shootings at Sandy Hook Elementary School, former U.S. Representative Gabrielle Giffords (D-Ariz.) has collaborated with a victim's mother and a teacher to write an anti-violence lesson plan for schools. Read more.

(Teaching Now)

• Nevada District Rocked by Shooting Waits on Answers

MORE NEWS

Fed Chairman Bernanke Gives Teachers an Economics Lesson
(Marketplace K-12)

Rewrite of E-Rate Program Could Cover Technology Outside Schools
(Digital Education)

New 'What Works' Guide Focuses on Teaching Math to Young Children
(Curriculum Matters)

Common-Core Fight Leads Ind. Chief Ritz to Abruptly Exit State Board Meeting
(State EdWatch)

Los Angeles School Board Imposes New Restrictions on iPad Plan
(Digital Education)

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(Sara Mead's Policy Notebook)

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(Public Engagement & Ed Reform)

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(Charting My Own Course)

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