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The Best Edtech for Students Is Backed by Research. Here’s What to Look For.

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As researchers focusing on education technology, we see this often: interactive whiteboards covered in posters, desktop computers holding up plants, older devices that do not work with a newer assessment system. The list goes on.

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DreamBox Learning® Enters ELA Market with Acquisitions of Reading Plus® and Squiggle Park

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Currently, DreamBox supports over 5 million students and over 200,000 educators in all 50 states, the District of Columbia, Puerto Rico, Canada, and Mexico. The adaptive literacy program develops fluency, comprehension, and vocabulary, while also measuring student motivation. grade levels in a single school year.

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Why We Need to Talk About Teacher Trauma

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The WHO and a growing body of academic research links burnout to a whole host of cumulatively building mental and physical health issues, including anxiety and depression and a debilitating lack of energy, productivity and motivation, among many others. As Bronx middle school teacher Roxanne Leak put it during an interview, “It’s unfortunate.

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