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New NetSupport Classroom Management Platform: classroom.cloud Keeps Students on Task, Whether in School or Remote

eSchool News

NetSupport made classroom.cloud available, for example, in a pre-launch to a limited number of schools and districts in 2020. Its use during the transition to remote learning and through hybrid models has provided invaluable insight for the company as well as educators. Read a case study about preparing for the hi-flex model here.

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Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media for ‘worrisome behavior’

eSchool News

Chicago Public Schools is monitoring students’ social media posts for signs they might engage in violence on campus or harm themselves so that school staff — and in some cases police — can intervene. A Canada-based company the district hired started scouring public posts for threats and “cries for help” last month.

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OverDrive Education Provides Free Resources to Schools Receiving COVID-19 Relief Funds

eSchool News

Since March 2020, the U.S. Case studies of schools that expanded their digital libraries using ESF. In addition, the company donated free digital collections to meet the growing demand through its Sora app. Interested schools can access the full collection of resources in the K-12 Funding Champion Toolkit.

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PROOF POINTS: Uncertain evidence for online tutoring

The Hechinger Report

So far, we have two well-designed studies where students were randomly assigned to receive online tutoring and their academic progress was measured. The first showed promising results for low-income immigrant middle schoolers in Italy in the spring of 2020.

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‘The Reading Year’: First grade is critical for reading skills, but kids coming from disrupted kindergarten experiences are way behind

The Hechinger Report

40 percent — The number of first grade students “well below grade level” in reading in 2020, compared with 27 percent in 2019, according to Amplify Education Inc. Miller’s first graders are a case study in the scale, depth and unevenness of learning loss during the pandemic. One report by Amplify Education Inc.,

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An App for Student Emergency Aid Finds New Urgency During Pandemic.

Edsurge

The company’s staff tripled, its portfolio of colleges served grew to more than two dozen, and in November, it raised $2.77 2020 had other plans. By January 2020, Edquity raised about $4 million , including $2.4 The company uses a licensing model to charge its college clients based on the size of their student bodies.

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PROOF POINTS: Four lessons from post-pandemic tutoring research

The Hechinger Report

That’s not surprising in a red-hot job market, where many companies say it’s tough to find employees. Tutoring companies are a booming business. As described by a December 2023 case study of tutoring by researchers at the Center for Reinventing Public Education (CRPE), Oakland struggled with hiring, scheduling and real estate.

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