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Creating your virtual library (quickly) using Slides and Bitmojis)

NeverEndingSearch

And it is clear that the library must be the center of that experience. But, first, a little background: I’ve been playing around with building virtual school libraries for a very long time. I started playing around with the fairly easy and recently very popular strategy of building a library scene in Slides. by EZ EdTech!

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Course Hero Joins the Edtech Unicorn Stable

Edsurge

I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. Users who upload class materials can access the full library for free. These quizzes can then direct users to study materials from Course Hero’s resource libraries. But its CEO winces when he hears the word.

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The ‘Enrichment Gap’ Is Widening. Students’ Social-Emotional Development Is at Risk.

Edsurge

Libraries, lifelines for low-income families in the afterschool hours, have largely remained closed to patrons during the pandemic. Wealthy families’ annual per-child expenditures on enrichment activities nearly tripled between 1972 and 2006 (from $3,536 to $8,872) while low-income families remained stagnant at around $1,000.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires Pivot Interactives

eSchool News

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global edtech company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. About Discovery Education Discovery Education is the worldwide edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports learning wherever it takes place. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Clearlake Capital to Acquire Discovery Education from Francisco Partners

eSchool News

The Company’s integrated learning platform empowers teachers by offering easy lesson creation, ready-to-use formative assessments, and personalized, data-driven recommendations from a library of educational resources. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Blackstone Credit provided committed debt financing for the transaction.

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Fighting Apathy, Neglect and Racism to Give Left-Behind Learners a Chance

Edsurge

I came to the Cobb County School District in 2006. Personalized learning is the new buzzword—edtech companies are after it and teachers toss it around as often as possible. There was money available to purchase books, and we essentially had carte blanche to build our own library.

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Summer passion projects for students

Kathy Schrock

The program launched in 2006, and I became a GCT in New York in 2008. It was a super team of very smart educators, all of whom you will likely recognize since they are still active in the edtech space! I was an instructor at the Academy as well as a participant to get my certification. The Google Teacher Academy had two components.

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