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Otus Awarded Practitioner-Informed Design Product Certification from Digital Promise

June 25, 2025 by ESchool News Staff

Chicago (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Otus, the leading K-12 assessment, data, and insights solution, has been awarded the Practitioner-Informed Design product ... Read more

How 3 Districts Are Reimagining High School and the Future of Work

June 4, 2025February 2, 2025 by Jeff Festa

To prepare high school students for the future of work, forward-thinking district and school leaders across the Digital Promise ... Read more

College and Career Readiness

How to leverage microcredentials and LERs in K-12

September 9, 2024 by Laura Ascione

A report offers recommendations for implementing microcredentials and LERs to advance skills-based learning for historically excluded students

As the U.S. offers more opportunities for skills-based hiring and advancement, microcredentials and learning and employment records (LER) can certify student learning and success and comprise lifelong learning…

Newsline

Digital Promise and Edthena Partner to Strengthen Science of Reading-Based Instruction Using AI-Powered Coaching

July 18, 2024 by ESchool News Staff

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Digital Promise and Edthena are partnering to help train and support teachers on Science of Reading-based instruction ... Read more

Live @ CoSN2024

#CoSN2024 Conversations—Jean-Claude Brizard, President and CEO of Digital Promise

April 10, 2024April 9, 2024 by Kevin Hogan

eSchool was able to snag Jean-Claude between sessions to talk big picture. Digital Promise is a global, nonpartisan, nonprofit organization ... Read more

Live @ CoSN2024

How InfoCase ensures Return on Investment AND Instruction

April 9, 2024April 9, 2024 by Kevin Hogan

eSchool News spoke with Diane Doersch, Senior Director at Digital Promise and formerly a Chief Technology & Information Officer of ... Read more

Innovation Insights

Big Deals—AI GUIDANCE for Schools Toolkit, Assessment PD for Teachers, and EV Buses Hit the Road.

October 27, 2023 by Kevin Hogan

New resources from Code.org, ETS, the International Society of Technology in Education, Khan Academy, the World Economic Forum, ISS, and more.

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95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design

December 14, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

Lincolnshire, IL & Washington, DC – 95 Percent Group LLC, the trusted source for comprehensive, proven literacy solutions, today announced its 95 ... Read more

Newsline

Discovery Education’s K-12 Learning Platform Earns Learner Variability Product Certification From Digital Promise

April 14, 2022 by ESchool News Staff

SILVER SPRING, MD (Thursday, April 14, 2022) — Discovery Education—the worldwide edtech leader whose digital services support learning wherever it ... Read more

Newsline

IXL Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise

June 23, 2021 by ESchool News Staff

SAN MATEO, Calif., June 22, 2021 /PRNewswire/ — IXL, the personalized learning platform used by more than 12 million students, announced that ... Read more

District Management

19 new districts join League of Innovative Schools

May 7, 2019October 4, 2016 by Stephen Noonoo

A cohort of 19 new school districts have been accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition of ... Read more

STEM & STEAM

3 ways innovative schools advance maker learning for all

July 15, 2016 by Melissa Gedney, Digital Promise

Maker learning inspires creativity, confidence, and passion for learning in young people. So how do you sustain a maker program, and encourage the sorts of innovative action required…

District Management

The major momentum behind micro-credentials

February 16, 2016 by Jennifer Kabaker

New partnerships and pioneers are giving Digital Promise’s badging movement a new push.

Teaching Trends

Editor’s Picks 2015, No. four: 4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates

December 28, 2015 by Melissa Gedney

Forward-thinking practices from districts in Digital Promise's League of Innovative Schools focus on college and career readiness, and ultimately help increase the overall graduation rate.

District Management

22 districts join network of innovative school systems

December 15, 2015October 21, 2015 by Laura Ascione

Oxnard Union High School District is one of 22 school districts accepted into the League of Innovative Schools, a national coalition of forward-thinking school districts organized by Digital…

District Management

ED’s former ed-tech chief discusses new role

June 7, 2013 by By Dennis Pierce, Editor in Chief, <a href='https://twitter.com/eSN_Dennis' target='_blank'>@eSN_Dennis</a>

In an interview with eSchool News, Karen Cator reflected on her tenure as the nation’s top ed-tech chief—and she described how her current organization, Digital Promise, is building…

District Management

Here’s how to scale school innovation

May 23, 2013May 21, 2013 by Meris Stansbury

In a new TED talk, Adam Frankel, executive director of Digital Promise, discusses how technology can help bring personalized learning and school innovation to scale.

District Management

White House makes ‘Digital Promise’ to schools

November 5, 2013September 17, 2011 by By Dennis Carter, Assistant Editor

A nonprofit start-up funded in part by the U.S. Department of Education (ED) will quickly evaluate which educational technologies are worth the investment – and which ones aren’t…

Otus Awarded Practitioner-Informed Design Product Certification from Digital Promise

How to leverage microcredentials and LERs in K-12

Digital Promise and Edthena Partner to Strengthen Science of Reading-Based Instruction Using AI-Powered Coaching

#CoSN2024 Conversations—Jean-Claude Brizard, President and CEO of Digital Promise

How InfoCase ensures Return on Investment AND Instruction

Big Deals—AI GUIDANCE for Schools Toolkit, Assessment PD for Teachers, and EV Buses Hit the Road.

95 Phonics Core Program® Earns Product Certification from Digital Promise for Research-Based Design

Discovery Education’s K-12 Learning Platform Earns Learner Variability Product Certification From Digital Promise

IXL Awarded Research-Based Design Product Certification from Digital Promise

19 new districts join League of Innovative Schools

3 ways innovative schools advance maker learning for all

The major momentum behind micro-credentials

Editor’s Picks 2015, No. four: 4 things innovative districts do to improve graduation rates

22 districts join network of innovative school systems

ED’s former ed-tech chief discusses new role

Here’s how to scale school innovation

White House makes ‘Digital Promise’ to schools

Why interactive solutions are a smarter investment for schools

Lerner Publishing Group Launches Dr. Gholdy Muhammad’s Genius and Joy Curriculum

School Specialty LLC Announces Acquisition of Nasco Education U.S.

100 Learning Spaces Transformed, $5 Million Invested: School Specialty and College Football Playoff Foundation Celebrate Impact Across Schools Nationwide

ACT and Texas Instruments Collaborate to Enhance Student Success in Mathematics

Big Ideas Start Young: Games for Change Opens 2026 Student Challenge to Game Creators and Innovators Ages 10–25

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