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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

Edsurge

Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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How to Qualify Online Tutoring Services

Ask a Tech Teacher

She lives in Illinois with her two-year-old Bridgette (who already knows how to count from one to ten) and a pet dog. Online tutor or homework help companies even have their own website and own application for communication. To help you out here are some tips on how to find legitimate online tutors or homework help: Ask a Friend.

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ThinkCERCA Raises $10.1 Million to Build Critical Thinkers, Readers and Writers

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“Everyone’s worried about people having to learn how to code,” notes Eileen Murphy. Like how to write an email.” Helping students write and reason clearly, critically and concisely is the central mission at her company, ThinkCERCA. Today the Chicago-based company has raised $10.1

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Kids Don’t Always Believe in Climate Science. Are Schools Miseducating Them?

Edsurge

For the book, she tracked what schools in each state are actually teaching about climate science, and uncovered the watered-down standards and outright climate change denial adopted by some states, as well as a well-funded campaign of misinformation spearheaded by fossil fuel companies. What would you say characterizes a “good” state?

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How to do online learning well? A California district has some answers.

The Hechinger Report

to learn how to make the shift from traditional time-based systems … towards one that is truly organized around the learner.”. After unsuccessfully approaching several major internet companies, the district decided to take matters into its own hands. The post How to do online learning well? Does it work?

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The Next Social Contract for Public Education Needs New Terms of Service

Doug Levin

There is every reason to expect that both entrepreneurs and enterprising educators will continue to generate new and compelling ideas about how to effectively address the challenges facing public education through technology, and for this we should remain optimistic and hopeful.

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Behind Closed Doors: Edtech Entrepreneurs’ Biggest Challenges in 2018

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Earlier this month in New York City, the AT&T Aspire Accelerator, AT&T’s program that finds, develops, and invests in promising edtech companies from around the world, hosted an afternoon of mock board meetings with its 2018 cohort. The same principle applies to edtech companies. To date AT&T has made 27 investments.

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