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Four Tips for Choosing the Right Edtech Resources

Edsurge

With the continued funding challenges educators face, it’s crucial to pick an education resource that will yield the best return on investment and support learning outcomes for your district. As a district, understand what your success criteria is before engaging with edtech companies.

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Disabilities in math affect many students — but get little attention

The Hechinger Report

Advocacy focused on math disabilities has been less widespread than that for reading disabilities. In a 2023 survey by Education Week, nearly 75 percent of teachers reported that they had received little to no preservice or in-service training on supporting students with math disabilities.

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Colleges welcome first-year students by getting them thinking about jobs

The Hechinger Report

It’s a strategy now buttressed by a new survey of 6,000 recent graduates, which found that the earlier college students had started looking for a job — and preparing for it by participating in internships and other career-related experiences — the happier they eventually were with their careers.

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Surveys Find Districts Are Using More Edtech Tools — and Teachers Are Bearing the Costs

Edsurge

A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years. The survey asked what kinds of approaches the respondents would invest more money in if they could double their learning budget. and definitely increases costs for districts.”

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Pay at child care centers went up, then their Yelp reviews went down

The Hechinger Report

They compared that data with surveys on the price of child care alongside data on child care quality — the amount of credentials teachers had and surveys examining the quality of their interactions — and they also looked at the number of children from low-income families served.

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

Edsurge

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., And she hopes educators and families all across the country will try it and see that for themselves.

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Eyes on the Future: Building on COVID Lessons for Enriched Teaching and Learning

edWeb.net

Over time, the need to quickly adapt led to heightened online student engagement, according to a CatchOn survey of 47 school districts from January 2020 to January 2021. Following this assessment is the design of an implementation plan centered on anticipated program outcomes. Student engagement suffered.