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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

That’s the technical name for showing children how to break down words into their component letter sounds and then fuse the sounds together. In a phonemic awareness lesson, a teacher might ask how many sounds are in the word cat. A new meta-analysis confirms that the answer is no. And that’s the source of the current debate.

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PROOF POINTS: ‘Right-to-read’ settlement spurred higher reading scores in California’s lowest performing schools, study finds

The Hechinger Report

They also conducted a cost-benefit analysis and determined that the $50 million literacy program created by the settlement was 13 times more effective than a typical dollar spent at schools. “I How to drive research to inform practice within schools and within classrooms is the central problem we face in education policy,” said Dee.

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US Edtech Raises $803M in First Half of 2020 As COVID-19 Forces Learning Online

Edsurge

In this analysis, EdSurge counts all publicly disclosed investments in private U.S. Though the company operates mostly in the entertainment space, it has an education team of instructional designers that teach kids how to program. But not all startups are affected equally.

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The Best Flipped Classroom Software Tools For Flipped Learning In 2021

Fractus Learning

The template resources help them develop high-quality tutorials, flipped learning content, and training material without starting from scratch. The talk and draw features make it easy to create how-to and instructional videos from screenshots. A teacher can capture the entire desktop screen, a window, or a scrolling screen.

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Most English lessons on Teachers Pay Teachers and other sites are ‘mediocre’ or ‘not worth using,’ study finds

The Hechinger Report

One of the most popular English lessons in the instructional marketplace Teachers Pay Teachers is a unit on how to teach William Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet.” and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks.

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Curation Situations: Let us count the ways

NeverEndingSearch

Teacher librarians also show young people how to curate around their own interests and how to create launchpads to manage their information worlds. Among my most popular guides were my current events guides for national and global news and news analysis. Curating OER. Display projects on tools like Pinterest or Instagram.

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New Content Added to Discovery Education’s Award-Winning Digital Services Boost Teachers’ Ability to Engage Students in Science, STEM, Social Studies, and More

techlearning

The program offers multi-platform online learning tools, with digital resources including: an interactive map, video vignettes, biographies and thought-provoking classroom activities to help students further explore how to help prevent human rights abuses and violations around the world.

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