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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school. However, before the courts resolved that legal question, the litigants settled the case in 2020. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The settlement itself was noteworthy.

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European Edtech Investor Brighteye Ventures Raises $54 Million for Second Fund

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“This milestone and the timing are where we wanted to be when we launched Brighteye in 2017,” says Benoit Wirz, a partner at Brighteye Ventures. “It Source: Brighteye Ventures: “ The European EdTech Funding Report 2020.” It proves that there is appetite among investors for helping education companies serving the European market.”

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OER-based Degrees: Momentum

Iterating Toward Openness

A few weeks ago Achieving the Dream announced a major initiative in which 38 community colleges across the US will completely replace the commercial instructional materials in their courses with open educational resources (OER). 18) for the creation of OER-based degrees (see SEC. This is truly extraordinary.

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

The Hechinger Report

in English literature and was the lead reviewer in a December 2019 study of online instructional materials. “But you have to have the excitement of digging into the text. ” Teachers Pay Teachers is one of the most popular sites for all kinds of materials. More than 80 percent of U.S.

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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?

Edsurge

Since the shift to remote learning in spring 2020, schools in the U.S. Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g. In 2020 alone, venture capital firms invested $2.2 The National Educational Technology Plan , created by the U.S.

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To Combat the ‘COVID Slide,’ Tutoring Program Pairs Elementary Schoolers with College Students

Edsurge

According to an EdSurge/Social Context Labs analysis of 196 school district policies published during spring 2020, nearly two-thirds offered printed instructional materials to families to use for schoolwork, a figure that was higher among high-poverty districts than low-poverty districts.

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eSN Hero Awards Finalists: 11 inspiring educators

eSchool News

Ebert, Superintendent of Public Instruction, Nevada Department of Education Nominated by: Discovery Education The shift to distance education precipitated by the COVID pandemic highlighted challenges including access to technology, professional learning for educators, and high-quality instructional materials.

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