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Can Companies Like Facebook Help Close the Access Gap?

Tom Murray

This past weekend I was searching for a particular feature inside the Facebook app while on my cell phone. Can Companies like Facebook Help Close the Access Gap? In places like Albemarle County, Virginia , school leaders are developing a 4G Network to support their entire community, every day of the year, by 2020.

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Predictions for 2021: An Acceleration of 2020?

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Lest 2020 be forgot and never brought to mind—a hope more than a few of us hold—existing trends that accelerated during the pandemic will continue in 2021. That’s what lies ahead, at least in the realms of education and employment, according to three college presidents and executives at large companies. Here’s how it breaks down: 1.

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. CLAS.U), a special purpose acquisition company headed by CEO Michael Moe, raised $225 million in its IPO. He was an early investor in Chegg, which went public in 2013 and whose stock more than doubled in 2020.

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4 Social Emotional Learning Strategies to Use in the Classroom Now

The CoolCatTeacher

This year’s is a fun “Remember When” edition which will feature 32 scenarios that we educators miss and don’t miss about classroom life before 2020. FaceBook: [link] . The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Blog: [link].

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Coronavirus FAQ: Everything Schools and Companies Need and Want to Know

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Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) Administration and Leadership How is all this being negotiated with teachers unions? Rebecca Koenig (March 16, 2020) How will this affect teacher pay? There are efforts to collect and share offerings from companies that want to help impacted schools. Don’t Pitch Them Right Now.

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AI and Algorithms Can Be Biased… So What We Should Do About It?

The CoolCatTeacher

He is the author of The Age of AI: Artificial Intelligence and the Future of Humanity with Zondervan (March 2020). Blog: [link] Twitter: @ jasonthacker Facebook: [link] Disclosure of Material Connection: This episode includes some affiliate links. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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‘Dear Mr. Zuckerberg’: Students Take Summit Learning Protests Directly to Facebook Chief

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On Thursday, hoping to send a stronger message, they took it all the way to the top, with a letter to Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. This program grew out of Summit Public Schools, a network of 11 charter schools based in California and Washington, and soon caught the eye of Facebook, which lent engineers to help build the software.

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