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Passionate About Second Language Acquisition: Meet Inkeri, English Teacher at 51Talk

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The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. What were two things that excited you about working with the company? About Inkeri Martin.

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How to reorientate education from knowledge acquisition to knowledge & skill mastery

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A teacher at a public high school shares how “…high-school students break down in tears over grades or pile on advance and AP classes because “that’s what colleges want to see” ( Lamb-Sinclair, 2016 ). Waterman, Schwartz, Goldbacher, Green, Miller, Philip, 2001 ).

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Helping Teachers Reach Every Student

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Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. Smith assumed his role at Reading Horizons in October 2001 and since has overseen steady sales growth and a multitude of improvements to their line of products. By Kenna McHugh.

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Commemorate the 20th Anniversary of 9/11 with a New Virtual Field Trip hosted by NBC’s Jenna Bush Hager from 9/11 Day and Discovery Education

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Developed for students born after September 11, 2001, this experience highlights ways people in the United States came together during and after the terrorist attacks. During this event, students will meet Jenna Bush Hager, co-host of NBC’s Today with Hoda & Jenna , in a town-hall-style session at the 9/11 Tribute Museum.

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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Among the choices educators make are what instructional technique to use, when and how to give feedback, and when and how to test student knowledge.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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She pioneered the use of adaptive learning in college teaching, starting the Online Learning Initiative at Carnegie Mellon University more than 15 years ago, and she sees how powerful it can be in a classroom. But she has real ambivalence about how adaptive learning is moving from the laboratory to the classroom.

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How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up

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Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. So it’s easy for me to show them how to do it, show them my way,” said Obimma. It’s a long road of recovery.” I love math.

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