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Inside a Preschool That Treats the Youngest Victims of the Opioid Crisis

Edsurge

The National Head Start Association, a nonprofit advocacy and professional support organization for Head Start, convened an Opioid Working Group in spring 2018 after hearing from educators that children in areas hardest-hit by the opioid epidemic were exhibiting an unusually high frequency and intensity of challenging behaviors.

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Inside Maine’s disastrous roll out of proficiency-based learning

The Hechinger Report

The group’s acronym, RISC, was deliberate, according to a book by its creators, “Delivering on the Promise.” In 2009, Gates gave half a million to the Nellie Mae Education Foundation, which describes itself as New England’s largest education-focused philanthropy, to lead a four-state effort to remake the region’s schools.

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Should Wall Street pay for preschool?

The Hechinger Report

Giroux, a professor for scholarship in the public interest at McMaster University in Ontario and the author of more than 20 books on education and American youth. These types of transactions enable private sector companies to be responsive to the requests from local/state government who have limited funding.”.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

The seller: Book Dog Books. “ Can a For-Profit, Venture-Backed Company Keep OER Free – and Be Financially Sustainable? The company sells a tablet for use in prison. million for the company – but of that just $15 million is cash; the rest is equity in NetDragon. ” asks Edsurge. million total.

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Live Thursday Sept. 15 with Sam Chaltain on "Faces of Learning"

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Join me Thursday, September 15th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Sam Chaltain, DC-based writer and education activist, on his new book Faces of Learning: 50 Powerful Stories of Defining Moments in Education. Sam Chaltain is a DC-based writer and education activist.

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The 2019 Global Education Conference - Full List of 130 Sessions and 10 Keynotes!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Dr. Gaudino is the author of two books: A Choral Legacy and Joan Yakkey and Her Children's Choir Legacy in Florence, Italy. Both books can be purchased on Amazon. She joined AFS-USA in 2009 as Business Development Strategist. We started the Tour company to show the real side of slums and its community.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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