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

eSchool News

CLEVELAND – May 14, 2021 – The federal government has approved billions of dollars of relief funds for schools, but some educators are unclear where the funds originate and how they should be used. Since March 2020, the U.S. Department of Education has allocated nearly $193 billion in K-12 COVID-19 relief funding to states.

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

eSchool News

This is the latest product from NetSupport, which has been supporting teachers with award-winning instructional and educational technology for over 30 years. NetSupport made classroom.cloud available, for example, in a pre-launch to a limited number of schools and districts in 2020. and Canada. NetSupport, based in the U.K.

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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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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. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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What If Schools Viewed Outdoor Learning as ‘Plan A’?

Edsurge

And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves. In May, as one school year ended and another began to loom large on the horizon, Danks and the leaders of a handful of other outdoor education advocacy groups— Ten Strands , the Lawrence Hall of Science museum in Berkeley, Calif.,

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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

In classrooms across the country, the first months of school this fall have laid bare what many in education feared: Students are way behind in skills they should have mastered already. Kindergarten focuses on easing children from a variety of educational backgrounds — or none at all — into formal schooling.