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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. By the summer of 2016, they had six courses covering JavaScript, SQL and other typical languages. Its graduates have gone on to raise more than $13 billion in total. Lots of people would ask us: ‘How do we learn to code?’”

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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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Characteristics of The 21st Century Classroom

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

In these classrooms, ” students regularly communicate, collaborate, self-reflect, problem solve,and peer-evaluate about their learning” (Hansen & Imse, 2016, p. Personalized Learning Personalized learning in the 21st-century classroom is about tailoring education to meet the unique needs, skills, and interests of each student.

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How Sustained Silent Reading Keeps Students Curious and Engaged

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I can't believe how lucky it is that I got this job after moving to a new area because I'm meeting all sorts of interesting, amazing people and learning a lot about this area.” Within two months of starting my teaching career in the fall of 1977, I was committed to SSR and I used in every class I taught until 2016.

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Going to School, Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech

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Quizlet , the studying tool he built in 2005, is now one of the most widely used education apps, claiming more than 50 million active users in 130 countries who have created over 300 million study sets. At meetings, Nevins is often not addressed when she is sitting next to her co-director. Fast forward 14 years.

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Popular “free college” programs yield mixed results

The Hechinger Report

Bernie Sanders made it a centerpiece of his 2016 presidential campaign. One of the earliest and most well-known is the Kalamazoo Promise , a scholarship created in 2005, which pays all tuition and fees for graduates of the city’s public high schools to attend any public two- or four-year college in the state of Michigan.

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Teachers of the Year Doing Equity Work: What, How, and Why

edWeb.net

It also included developing a more holistic view of students as members of families and communities, and consideration of policies that were flexible enough to meet diverse needs and ensure students in different situations were receiving an equitable education. This work led to activities such as helping people get groceries. Shawn Sheehan.