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4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading

Neo LMS

Americans spend an average of 17 minutes per day reading for personal interest; in 2003, the average reading time was 22 minutes. Less than 53% of American adults read at least one book for pleasure in 2019. Technology might come in handy in this case. 4 Awesome edtech solutions for making students fall in love with reading.

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

Edsurge

Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. It’s a grand vision—and one that has recently secured big funding from leading education investors.

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EdSurge Article Recommends Edtech Efficacy Portfolios - Here's Ours

MIND Research Institute

Fuster, 2004; Schneider & Chein, 2003), schemas and heuristics (e.g., As part of MIND's efforts to make edtech research more accessible, and better equip educators and administrators to make informed decisions, we’ve created a repeatable, scalable study method that we have been continuously improving over a number of years.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

Edsurge

From its founding in 2003, Empower’s team has used custom scripts and queries to pull data from SISs to create exportable files to send to their customers nightly. Empower still uses SIF today and its scripts can access data from certain SISs they work with. Currently, as of 2019, there are 244.

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It’s A Smartphone Life: More Than Half Of U.S. Children Now Have One

MindShift

These stats come from a new, nationally representative survey of media use among children ages 8-18, by Common Sense Media, which has been tracking this since 2003. Just ask Ashley Mingo, a junior at the Hudson High School of Learning Technologies in New York City. Copyright 2019 NPR. It’s also an equity issue.

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University of Chicago projected to be the first U.S. university to cost $100,000 a year

The Hechinger Report

The privilege of attending is costly, at $57,642 for the 2019-20 academic year. Looking at data from 2003 and 2012 for 448 small private colleges, it found that higher tuition discounts did not correlate with increased low-income or minority student enrollment. The ongoing spread of discounting has been aided by new technology.

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Technology’s Impact on Student Learning: Insights from the Speak Up 2022 Congressional Briefing

edWeb.net

In 2003, Project Tomorrow, a national nonprofit dedicated to helping K-12 education leaders identify and implement best practices, launched the Speak Up Research Project, which gives K-12 leaders insights into current and emerging dynamics in the education ecosystem—and what those dynamics mean for all the stakeholders within a school district.

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