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Edtech Companies Need to Engage Families Now

Digital Promise

Moving forward, innovations in education must embrace the importance of relationships among students, families and communities, and educators, while adapting to meet the unique learning needs of students at home. Recommendations and Next Steps for Edtech Companies. What Parents and Caregivers Need to Adjust to the New Educator Role.

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Providers Rise to Meet the Challenge of K–12 Data Security

EdTech Magazine

Providers Rise to Meet the Challenge of K–12 Data Security. Analysis of student data allows educators to identify at-risk students and implement further research into what does and does not work in the classroom. eli.zimmerman_9856. Fri, 01/18/2019 - 13:45.

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. If you teach phonemic awareness, students will learn phonemic awareness,” which isn’t the goal, said Tiffany Peltier , a learning scientist who consults on literacy training for teachers at NWEA, an assessment company. “If And that’s the source of the current debate.

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How to Use Data Driven Instruction in the Classroom

The CoolCatTeacher

So if you're a classroom teacher and you're thinking, how do I make data actionable or how do I perform some analysis, what I would urge you to do is to think about demographics, attendance, education, data, any achievement data that might come out from your classroom as called data. It might not be accurate, but there's no shortage of it.

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Teacher Layoffs Are Coming as Pandemic Relief Money for Schools Dries Up

Edsurge

Overall public school enrollment is expected to continue its incremental decline through 2040, notes education consulting firm McKinsey & Company, with urban districts bearing the brunt of it.

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Tutor.com’s On-Demand Tutoring Meets ESSA II Standards, Demonstrating Positive Impacts on Student Grades and Attendance

eSchool News

The findings come from an effectiveness study independently designed and conducted by LearnPlatform by Instructure, a third-party edtech research company. The company, which has delivered more than 25 million sessions , plans to release additional MTSS tools in the new year. SOURCE Tutor.com

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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