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How Building Bonds in the Classroom Can Motivate Better Teaching

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A University of Missouri study found that students who feel their teachers care about them also report receiving better instruction. Researchers pulled data for two years (the 2017 and 2018 academic years) from Missouri’s state-wide teacher evaluation system, in which students rated teachers’ effectiveness. As it turns out, yes.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

Furthermore, in September 2020, UNICEF reported that 1 billion children worldwide aren't learning at all. ” The Nation’s Report Card. UNESCO (2017, September 2017). Norbert College where she taught the course Language Analysis and Applied Linguistics. The life long consequences when a student cannot read.

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First nationwide look at racial breakdown of career education confirms deep divides

The Hechinger Report

In Nevada, just 4 percent of students who took a career-oriented science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) course in the 2019-20 school year — 88 students total — were Black, even though Black students make up more than 11 percent of the state’s public school enrollment.

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More schools are adding pre-K classrooms. But do principals know how to support them?

The Hechinger Report

These are just a few of the promising efforts identified by New America, a Washington-based think tank, in a series of reports that detail the need to better prepare principals to work with young learners—and that also highlight some potential solutions. A lot of principals come from upper elementary or secondary,” Bornfreund said.

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Top Hat Buys Canadian Textbook Business to Compete With Publishers in Digital Courseware

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But now it wants to compete with them in their core business of course materials. He declined to disclose the value of the deal, but said the price reported by The Globe and Mail—under $30 million—is in the ballpark. The company acquired the K-12 publishing business of McGraw-Hill Ryerson in 2017. Estimated revenue for the U.S.

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Pandemic May (Finally) Push Online Education Into Teacher Prep Programs

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Even teacher prep programs that are offered via online courses don’t necessarily instruct teacher candidates how to educate students remotely, says Lynn Gangone, president and CEO of the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education. The Guide to Teaching Online Courses , from the National Education Association.

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Bigger Deals, Bigger Bets: EdTech Venture Funding Trends Continue in 2018

EdNews Daily

Zuoyebang, a web and mobile platform to assist K-12 students on homework assignments, received $500M investments over 2 rounds of funding in August 2017 and July 2018; an additional $500M of developmental capital from Softbank is said to be upcoming. in 2017 (PWC Money Tree Report, January 2019). compared to $76.4B

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