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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. Today Py’s content library covers more than 22 courses for skills like Swift and data science. Each course is made up of 70-odd short lessons and exercises. Its graduates have gone on to raise more than $13 billion in total.

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Closing the 30 million word gap

eSchool News

In Weslaco, Texas, Superintendent Ruben Alejandro has launched an early literacy program called “Zero to Three Weslaco Reads,” which provides access to an online library of digital books called myON for the entire Weslaco community. Napa County isn’t alone in focusing on children who aren’t even old enough for school.

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Why students are ignorant about the Civil Rights Movement

The Hechinger Report

In the 2015-16 school year, none of the social studies textbooks listed for use in the state’s fourth grade classroom was published before 2005. Yet, in the book most districts use — titled “Mississippi Studies” and published in 2005 — only five of 100 pages are devoted to civil rights struggles. Stennis as “politically moderate.”

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5 Activities to teach your students how to spot fake news

Neo LMS

The News Comparison exercise. While not specifically about fake news, this exercise helps students understand the nature of news and the variability and quality of the information found online. Show students the MGM version then reveal the real version , which is a picture from 2005 of a lion receiving a CAT scan.

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Newsletter: Used PCs to Chromebooks (Today), New "Privacy Con" Speakers, More GlobalEd.TV, Quotes + News

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Of particular note are the special "turn your old pcs into Chromebooks" event today, the pretty amazing new speakers we have for "Privacy Con" (the Library 2.106 event next week), and new library events in June and October ("Library as Classroom" and "Libraries of the Future").

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

Here’s a list of election outcomes pertaining to library-related measures , thanks to EveryLibrary.org. million repayment the Education Department demanded the for-profit institution make in 2005,” reports Inside Higher Ed. ” (That’s Jefferson County, Colorado.). regulation,” reports The Washington Post.

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How a Flipped Syllabus, Twitter and YouTube Made This Professor Teacher of the Year

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We also use a lot of maps from the Perry-Castañeda Library Map Collection. If you try to have regimented exercises, every single person has to do the exact same thing. Paradise Now ” (2005, Palestine, directed by Hany Abu-Assad)—Unsettling political thriller about two Palestinian men preparing for a suicide attack in Israel.

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