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eSports: The Growing Extra-Curricular Activity NOW!

The CoolCatTeacher

Kristy Custer – Bio as Submitted Dr. Kristy Custer has been a public educator for almost 25 years. Dr. Custer is a leader in character education and civic advocacy. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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6 tips to help educators support young readers

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Buyer beware: Many companies market books as “decodable,” but without alignment with your curriculum’s phonics scope and sequence, it’s unlikely the text is decodable for your students. It may also help them to acquire new phonics knowledge. Use decodable texts that align with your curriculum’s phonics scope and sequence.

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After Recent High-Profile Data Breaches, Illuminate Education Quietly Gets Acquired

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In a deal quietly announced last week, K-12 educational software services company Renaissance Learning acquired Illuminate Education for an undisclosed amount. The deal was announced last Monday on both companies' sites and in an email sent to Illuminate customers. Why the pairing?

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Advocacy Group to DOJ: Cengage-McGraw Hill Merger Could Create a ‘Platform Monopoly’ in Education

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An open-access advocacy group on Wednesday sent a formal filing to the U.S. Department of Justice opposing the proposed merger of two of the world’s largest textbook publishers, Cengage and McGraw-Hill Education. Cengage and McGraw-Hill’s proposed merger is a step toward forming a monopoly over higher education data." —The

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Are Latino ‘Systems of Knowledge’ Missing From Education Technology?

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At a time when school districts are spending money on edtech like never before, it’s perhaps natural that some educators would be skeptical about both the pace and enthusiasm behind it. She co-founded edtech company LangInnov to address what she saw as a gap in the market for assessing Latino children’s reading abilities.

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Nancy Knowlton, David Martin awarded Meritorious Service Medals (Civil Division)

eSchool News

As part of the Meritorious Service Decorations (Civil Division) , the medals were awarded to the couple for their exceptional contributions to improving educational opportunities for young people in Canada and abroad. Nancy, Nureva’s chief executive officer, is regarded as a global expert on technology adoption in education.

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A Tale of Two American Education Systems: An Edtech Investor’s Perspective

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She has her own computer, educational software and high-speed internet. But it’s not just Maria who is falling behind due to her lack of access to educational technology and resources. And it means funding companies and founders who are committed to closing the digital divide. Jennifer is in sixth grade.

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