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What is Mastery Learning and How Do You Implement It Effectively?

The CoolCatTeacher

Limited quantities on desktops, gaming laptops, high quality monitors, thunderbolt docks, wireless mice and more. In 2002, Jon received the Presidential Award for Excellence for Math and Science Teaching; and in 2010, he was a Semi-Finalist for Colorado Teacher of the Year. Dell Black Friday and Year Long Education Deals.

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SIIA, a Pioneering Convenor for the Edtech Industry, Scraps Its Conferences

Edsurge

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

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Don’t Rely on Cute Apps and Games to Teach Coding. Turn to Your Students Instead.

Edsurge

So, having no idea where to begin a curriculum, they turn to so-called experts: companies that sell them products to meet new coding or STEM requirements. In 2002, I founded a summer coding camp, SummerTech, located on the campus of Purchase College, SUNY. And many former campers are now professional coders at top technology companies.

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Dave Eggers on Finding Creative Refuge From the ‘Lunacy’ of Technology

Edsurge

That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002. Nínive Calegari and I built it back in 2002 as a drop-in writing and tutoring center for kids in the neighborhood. The centers all have laptops.

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Adobe Flash End of Life & the Threat to Education

myViewBoard

For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. The adoption of the internet slowly grew until 2002 where finally over 90% of public school had access to the internet. The impact of Flash on education and the classroom. What does the Adobe Flash end of life mean for educators?

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Inside the schools, the share of students qualifying for free lunch, a federal measure of poverty, jumped from 39 percent in 2002-03 to 81 percent in 2018-19.

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. million students took about 4.5 Why Mississippi?