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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

Edsurge

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. And neither is elementary-grade science. with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. Elementary school is often a forgotten place but it’s the most critical.” million in revenues this year and $1.5

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How Parent Empowerment Can Change Your Classroom for the Better

Waterford

Schedule a meeting with each family as early as possible in the school year to discuss their hopes for their child’s education and how they would like to be involved in school. Teachers College Record, October 2005, 107(10), pp. Journal of Education and Practice, November 2016, 7, pp. Develop Strong Parent-Teacher Partnerships.

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Tips and Strategies to Talk about Race in Class

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Example: Have regular classroom meetings to discuss current events related to race, diversity, and inclusion. We Make It Controversial”: Elementary Preservice Teachers’ Beliefs about Race. Complicated Conversations: Exploring Race and Ideology in an Elementary Classroom. Continue to explore, reflect, and grow together.

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Charters felt pressured to promise miraculous progress — but none met the targets

The Hechinger Report

In 2008, a few years after Hurricane Katrina, school officials in Louisiana asked aspiring charter-school leader Andrew Shahan to consider taking over the failing Dr. Charles Drew Elementary School in New Orleans’ Upper 9th Ward. Related: A new movement to treat troubled children as ‘sad, not bad’.

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The opioid crisis took their parents, now foster kids left behind are being failed again

The Hechinger Report

And while the nationwide rate of foster care entrances is not as high as it was at its peak in 2005, many states have seen drastic increases in recent years. Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. She attends a local elementary school, where Matt Rhoda is the principal.

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How little is too little money for schools?

The Hechinger Report

A 2005 research study by the MDRC, a New York- and Oakland, California-based research group, found that Kansas City high schools produced and sustained a “double digit” improvement in the percentage of 11th-graders reading proficiently and a dramatic decline in the percentage of students scoring “unsatisfactory” on the state test.

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9 Key Classroom Management Skills Backed up with Research

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

2005; Gage & MacSuga-Gage, 2017). Prompting for Expectations: Including pre-corrections, which guide students to meet expectations Prompting for expectations involves proactive reminders and guidance to help students meet the expected behavior or academic goals. 2005; Gage & MacSuga-Gage, 2017).