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9 Ideas for Ending the School Year Well

The CoolCatTeacher

For more on this, read my 2006 Post About How a Disney Cruise changed my views on education.) And so I also just try to find things to do that they love and projects STEM activities with Legos or maybe making fidget or fidget spinners, things like that. So how are you going to do that?

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Carnegie Learning Bets Big on Coding With Acquisition of Globaloria

Edsurge

Both companies trace their lineage to top-pedigree universities: Carnegie grew out of research on computer-based instructional systems started by Carnegie Mellon researchers. Carnegie Learning spun out as an independent company in 1998. After it became an independent company in 2014, Harel raised another $3.5

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. billion in 2010. billion in 2010.

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NFL PLAY 60 Kids Day keeps kids active in advance of Super Bowl LV

eSchool News

Getting active for 60 minutes a day is critical as kids who are regularly active have a better chance of a healthy adulthood, but only 1 in 5 children and adolescents get enough activity to meet the U.S. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., discoveryeducation.com. Discovery Education currently serves approximately 4.5

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From Testing to Transformational Change with Pam Moran

The CoolCatTeacher

Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” Moran has served as the Superintendent of Albemarle County Public Schools since January 2006. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Date: January 15, 2018. Dr. Pamela R.

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How one city has been tackling the swelling scourge of brain drain

The Hechinger Report

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. It’s to universities and colleges that many states have mostly turned to stem this flow. With a record 7.1

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Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost

The Hechinger Report

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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