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No Begging Required: Teachers Share 5 Creative Ways to Fund Classroom Technology

Edsurge

She is not alone, as educators around the United States get ready to start the 2017-18 school year, supplies—particularly technology—can cost classrooms hundreds of thousands of dollars. As the maker movement catches on, we're seeing more requests for things like MakerBots, 3Doodler pens, and robotics kits.”

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. Venture Capital in 2017.

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An Illinois district proved gifted programs can be racially diverse

The Hechinger Report

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report.

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How a School District Proved Gifted Programs Can Be Racially Diverse

MindShift

By 2017-18, the most recent data available , the district was 54 percent Hispanic — and its gifted classes were 48 percent Hispanic. However, U-46 created a separate, 100 percent Hispanic, elementary program that allowed those students to study the gifted curriculum. Department of Education Civil Rights Data Collection.

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Making positive educational moves during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

So Joffe created eLearn.fyi , a database of more than 300 online learning tools, including a civics curriculum founded by former Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor and engineering lessons on how to build a robotic arm. She’s also found it harder to engage with some of her elementary school students. points among Asian students.

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In elementary classrooms, demand grows for play-based learning

The Hechinger Report

But it wasn’t indoor recess — play is one of the ways students learn every day in O’Brien’s science and social studies class at Shidler Elementary School. Crystal O’Brien, center, plays with her third grade students during free play time in her classroom at Shidler Elementary School in Oklahoma City. This is an unbalanced force.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

Nominee: Link Text Becky Alexander, Morris Elementary Nominated by: Istation. Becky Alexander is the principal at Morris Elementary School in Morris, Oklahoma. Inspired by Alexander’s success, educators at Morris Elementary also use Istation’s reports and printable resources to promote academic growth in reading and math.

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