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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

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The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. Finally, with technology students are no longer completely dependent on the teacher for knowledge.

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AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes

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Based in Boston, AllHere has developed tools to help schools track and improve student attendance. Its founder and CEO, Joanna Smith, says “there is a lot of natural synergy between [Bergman’s] work on low-cost, scalable interventions and our goal to improve student engagement and attendance.”

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

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The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. But these concerns exist as well for traditional brick-and-mortar schools, some of which have failed generations of students.

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