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We Asked Teachers What They Want From Edtech. Here’s What They Said.

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Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards. Challenge: In a groundbreaking study led by The Education Trust, researchers found that “across the country, lessons from the Internet labeled as [standards] aligned are being taught again and again, whether or not they are really worthy.”

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Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech

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The San Francisco-based company is best known for its rostering technology that provisions user accounts for software, and a single sign-on service that makes it easy for students and teachers to log into and use tools purchased by district officials. A report published in January suggests that most software licenses purchased go unused.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

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When it comes to reading for pleasure, students have so many other competing interests available to them – movies, games, social media, and TV shows – that we need to aim to make it an attractive, conscious choice. Handbooks can summarize library services, events calendars, and important updates. Holzweiss asked.