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APRIL 12, 2024

COVID-19 was edtech’s big moment, and while digital tools kept learning going for many families and schools, they also faltered. This way of thinking about technology has been core to many pitches made by edtech providers to schools and, I’d argue, it has outsized influence on how most of us think about edtech.

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MARCH 3, 2025

Early numeracy encompasses fundamental mathematical concepts and skills young learners acquire before formal schooling. It contributes to cognitive development, problem-solving abilities and logical reasoning essential skills across all subjects and future career paths.

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FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Imagine IM’s Inspire Math video Climbing Mount Everest links the drama of mountaineering to middle school work on percentages. Garden in the Ice Recommended Resources Impact and Outcomes in Chicago Schools Inspire Math videos introducing problem-based scenarios in Imagine IM: Deforestation in Borneo and Climbing Mt.

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MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

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SEPTEMBER 23, 2018

Decades of research on child and adolescent development has shed powerful light on how we can best support student development. But here's what we should all find unacceptable: We have yet to widely reflect that learning in how we educate students in our schools.

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OCTOBER 24, 2017

public schools is that 51 percent of all students come from low-income families. For years, research has shown that socioeconomic status is associated with differences in school readiness, cognitive development and achievement. In a single school year, working memory training can yield gains equal to 1.5

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MARCH 15, 2019

Throughout the school year, Thomas had shown a keen interest in global issues in class and had displayed an exceptional empathetic nature in understanding individuals from different cultures and backgrounds. The report posits the need to focus on social-emotional and academic development when educating children.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2022

One of the motivations, according to Robert DeHaas, vice provost of the School of Education at Dallas College, was to set students up for better jobs and higher pay. The health crisis exacerbated the high rate of turnover that already plagued the early childhood education industry.

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JULY 31, 2020

Michelle Lamont’s 7-year-old daughter, Savannah, was already struggling with reading when her school shut down due to the coronavirus pandemic in March. Shortly after Savannah’s school, located in the rural town of Hampshire, Tenn., The couple decided—mostly out of necessity—that the school year, in their house, had ended in March. “My

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DECEMBER 11, 2019

The one-time events are held in informal settings, such as museums, after-school programs and community centers and attendees don’t need prior experience because the facilitator provides a brief tutorial for the tool using videos and tips provided in the protocols. But the problem is not always lack of interest.

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NOVEMBER 15, 2019

CHICAGO — At first glance, it looks like your standard recess: Elementary school students, bundled up in warm jackets, hats and mittens, laugh and play outside on a crisp, cloudy fall day in the Windy City. But can resolving the broad range of elementary school conflicts be as simple as learning to play fair?

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NOVEMBER 2, 2022

But it’s hard to draw concrete conclusions about whether games geared toward early learners will likely result in the development of key skills, such as emotional regulation, notes Kirkorian. One big takeaway though, is that the fun factor is crucial to yield any positive learning outcome.

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AUGUST 4, 2021

A school in Baixiang County, China. The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. On one hand, I really want to respect cognitive development, and on the other hand, I also dream to be a proud mom,” Hu says. “I

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AUGUST 3, 2016

He believed children’s cognitive development and scientific thinking grew through stages of self-constructed knowledge structures—and that they need to actively work through exploratory activities that allow them to discover and construct their own world. While a visionary, he is also very much a realist.

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NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Whitesides, 56, taught K-8 special education for 24 years and opened Building Blocks in 2012. One of the few licensed preschools in her area, she saw a need for her services even after her retirement from public schools. We’re one big family,” says Whitesides.

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AUGUST 30, 2023

But there’s been less attention paid to what math skills students need early in life, to set them up for elementary school in the first place. For early learners, exposure to math concepts can be at the mercy of their family’s economic status or related factors like whether their parents are college-educated.

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OCTOBER 29, 2024

As Jennifer Hill’s eldest child was heading into fifth grade, she began to wonder how she would communicate with him in the hour between his school bus drop-off and her arrival home from work in downtown Cleveland. I rushed to them,” says Calderon, referring to her three school-age kids. “It This story also appeared in WIRED.

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