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Top Tweets from 2021

Learning in Hand

My top tweets from each month of 2021. ? Registration is open, and the workshop begins Jan 20th: [link] pic.twitter.com/BXh3ATUXFC — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) January 19, 2021. ? 3D Block Letters [link] #ClassyGraphics pic.twitter.com/9kCdbikH68 — Tony Vincent (@tonyvincent) February 27, 2021. ? Tip Tuesday!

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Choosing Edtech: Three Learnings from Five Districts

Digital Promise

Districts will have access to the nearly $190 billion which the U.S. A study conducted in 2017 and published in June 2021 investigated how five school districts from Digital Promise’s League of Innovative Schools made edtech purchasing decisions. How might districts find edtech to support learning?

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Empty Desks: Getting Chronically Absent Students Back to Class Is No Easy Feat

Edsurge

East Palo Alto Academy, a small charter high school, saw a chronic absenteeism rate of 199 out of 355 students (56 percent) during the 2021-22 school year, according to state data. percent) in 2021-22. In 2021-22, 6.5 missed at least 10 percent or more of school days than in 2017-18, according to an Attendance Works analysis.

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Schools Must Invest to Protect IoT Devices

EdTech Magazine

billion of them in use in 2017 — from TVs, cars and coffee makers at home to security cameras, lighting systems and thermostats at businesses and schools. One solution for schools using a cloud environment is a cloud access security broker, or CASB. billion in IoT security spending by 2021. With spending at $1.2 Content Subtype.

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3M and Discovery Education Name 10 Grant Recipients Supporting Nation’s Young Scientists 

eSchool News

Kathryn Lampo is a 20-year-old from Colorado and a 2017 finalist. Kathryn received $1,000 for the project NYC Model Rocketry Initiative that makes space science and engineering accessible to underserved middle schoolers across New York City through engaging STEM resources. Samvrit Rao is a 15-year-old from Virginia and a 2020 finalist.

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PROOF POINTS: New evidence of high school grade inflation

The Hechinger Report

The latest is an analysis of more than 4 million high school seniors who took the ACT from 2010 to 2021. A 2017 study by a College Board researcher found that grade inflation was worse at wealthier schools. points from 3.22 (a B) in 2010 to 3.39 (a B-plus) in 2021. The top score is 36.) in 2010, but a 3.7

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Community colleges tackle another challenge: Students recovering from past substance use

The Hechinger Report

But it’s only in the last dozen or so years that programs began popping up at community colleges; Minneapolis College’s program, opened in 2017, was the first in Minnesota and the fifth in the nation. Today, more than 170 programs exist across the U.S. and Canada. I don’t know why we weren’t trying to do this years ago,” Miller said.

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