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Excite, expand, equitize: Using data to support reading

eSchool News

Our students can choose to read digital magazines, non-English content, Battle-of-the Books texts, and books from wide variety of curated collections. Using data for advocacy Increasing funding to expand our collection of audiobooks is just one example of the many ways we’re using data for advocacy.

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The Key Role of Tech in Accessibility for All

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Online training is useful to get staff up to speed on current legislation and trends, but face-to-face meetings, like working with a technology coach, are imperative to ensuring each student’s needs are met. Kelley is superintendent of Oak Park Elementary School District 97, a PreK–8 public school system in Oak Park, IL, with 6,150 students.

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Innovative ideas for school libraries

eSchool News

What are the new trends in libraries? As librarians, we can do this by offering a range of genres and formats for students to choose from: novels, comics, magazines, audiobooks, print, or digital. As times have changed, technology has advanced, and student needs have evolved—so, too, has the role of the librarian.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” The Salt Lake City school board has voted to rename Jackson Elementary. “The Implications of Gartner’s Top 10 Tech Trends of 2018 for Education – Part 2,” according to the Getting Smart blog. ” Shocking.

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

In previous years, when I’ve written about this topic, I’ve saved “The Business of Ed-tech” for one of the last articles in my “ Top Ed-Tech Trends" series. ” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms.

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Could we improve America by treating 2-year-olds better?

The Hechinger Report

The series was produced by The Hechinger Report and Columbia Journalism School’s Teacher Project , nonprofit news organizations focused on education coverage, in partnership with Slate Magazine. We currently spend $634 billion total on elementary and secondary public education. (Of Sign up for our newsletter. million of them do.).

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Education Technology and 'Fake News'

Hack Education

The image above from Google Trends helps demonstrate how popular the phrase has become in the intervening months. In September, the magazine announced it was up for sale , but it appears as though the fallout from the retracted article – the ongoing court cases, that is – might stymy efforts to sell.