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From school year to summer: Why reliable edtech matters to boost literacy

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Science, social studies, and even math teachers can access informational texts aligned to Texas standards directly through the platform’s educator tools. World Book consistently receives praise and positive feedback, particularly when we demonstrate how seamlessly it aligns with curriculum and standards.

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Beyond One-Size-Fits-All: How School Districts Choose Edtech That’s Culturally Relevant

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As classrooms across America become increasingly diverse, with growing populations of multilingual learners and students from various cultural backgrounds, school districts face a critical challenge: selecting educational technology that truly serves all students. million in the fall of 2011. It has to be AA rated or we don’t buy it.”

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Trump Executive Order Calls for Artificial Intelligence to Be Taught in Schools

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One group effort, backed by The Learning Accelerator, is the School Teams AI Collaborative, which has dozens of educators from schools across the country experimenting with and evaluating AI-enabled instruction. For example, theyre using AI to offer writing feedback and to teach students about civics by developing voter registration chatbots.

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What We Learn from the Edtech Games the Government Plays

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Here’s some of what we saw: Math. Math games have grown by leaps in the past six years. Among those at this year’s Expo: Researchers at the University of Oregon showed off Numbershire and KinderTek , two math games for young children that teach foundational skills with illustrations and evidence-based practices.

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ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers

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Founded in 2012, ThinkCERCA offers a set of digital tools and lesson plans to help educators teach critical thinking skills across a variety of subjects, including English language arts (ELA), math, social studies and science. People often joke about being bad at math, but they often do that with writing as well,” observes Murphy.

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How Bold Leadership Builds Personalized Pathways

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Mancuso, superintendent of Eastern York School District , leads a community of 2,300 students across five schools and brings 36 years of public education experience. Ryan, president of McGraw Hill School Group , has spent two decades in education technology and previously worked in education policy and as a U.S.

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How a Feedback Tool Improves Both Instruction and Student Outcomes for This Math Teacher

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In recent years, the focus in math education has shifted from the traditional priority of answering the problem to one of understanding and articulating the process. This has been accompanied by a growing demand for educators to provide quality feedback in a timely manner. Math is moving away from “kill and drill.”