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This STEM-focused district hands out paychecks along with report cards

The Hechinger Report

Teachers push [academic] standards into these projects,” and schools don’t “want projects where kids are just an extra set of hands.”. The company teamed with the district to establish an educational component for its robot toys in 2014. For Sphero and its 170 employees, work with St. Vrain students started slowly.

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Ohio shutting down its clearinghouse for online lessons

eSchool News

That has been the value of the clearinghouse, he said; not only pointing teachers and others toward online lessons to fit state academic standards, but providing an Ohio-specific seal of approval. “We They’ll have to go to Google and try to do their own review,” Herrelko said. “It