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Not Just Classroom Supplies: Teachers Also Buy Edtech With Their Own Money

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When new trends become the norm, report findings sometimes elicit more shrugs than surprise. That’s arguably the case for U.S. smartphone and Wi-Fi adoption, which continues to grow unabated as evidenced in latest internet trends deck from renowned investor Mary Meeker. In education technology, a litany of surveys published this decade have touted the growing […]

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Amira Raises $5 Million to Boost Literacy Through Voice Recognition Product

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A digital model of a woman with short dark hair and a green jacket pictured in the corner of the computer screen stops a student mid-sentence. The student has mispronounced the word “stripes” as “strips.” The model, Amira, states a word that rhymes with “stripes” to help the student. “Now you try reading this word,”

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Student survey reveals 95% of students feel mandatory online courses are a bad idea

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A new survey from the Ontario Student Trustees’ Association (OSTA-AECO) revealed that 95 per cent of the 6087 students surveyed disapprove of the e-learning mandate introduced by the provincial government back in March. Beginning in 2020 all high school students in Ontario will be required to complete four e-learning courses to earn their high school

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A Bored Student Hacked His School’s Systems. Will the Edtech Industry Pay Attention?

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This week on the podcast we’re talking about cybersecurity at schools—and how secure, or in some cases how vulnerable, the tech systems in school systems are these days. We’re focusing on a pretty unusual story about Bill Demirkapi, who had a pretty odd hobby while he was in high school in Lexington, Massachusetts. While many

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Colleges Reinforce Inequality Rather than Social Mobility, New Book Argues

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Guidance counselors who only steer you toward community college. University recruiters who never visit your high school. Relatives who are ambivalent or even hostile about your goals. If you’re a poor, smart student who dreams of changing your circumstances through higher education, the resistance you often face may make you wonder whether the system is

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U.S. News Rankings Add Consideration of How Well Colleges Serve First-Generation Students

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The rankings of the “best” colleges in America by U.S. News and World Report now take into account how well institutions serve first-generation students. Yet despite a few tweaks to how the magazine defines what makes a top college—iterations in methodology that have become routine—Princeton University is still the highest ranked (again), and there are

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A Faculty-Led Fund Gets Cash to Struggling Students, Fast

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The email arrived like a punch in the gut. You have exhausted your Pell Grant funds. In order to take this class, you will need to pay out of pocket. Jimmieka Mills was familiar with that feeling. When she’d shown up at the financial aid office of a Houston Community College campus at age 19,

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Charter Schools May be the Answer, But What’s the Question?

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Charter schools educate six percent of America’s children, but get an outsized amount of attention, pro and con. Partly because charter schools represent change: Charter schools have grown more than sevenfold in the last twenty years. Partly because charter schools educate an outsized, and concentrated, percentage of Black and Latinx students, and groups of Black

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How Our Summer Program Uses Deeper Learning to Reach Struggling Students

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Cristian watched with excitement across the picnic table as Chef Bruce formed blue balls of cornmeal and pressed them between two stainless steel paddles. “I know how to do that!” he exclaimed with excitement. “He’s making tortillas. My Mom does that.” Cristian, a fourth grader originally from Mexico, speaks Spanish at home but struggles with

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