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What Summer Slide Actually Means—and 5 Ways to Fight it

Edsurge

Last September, a friend from graduate school forwarded me a Brookings Institute article written by David M. The article begins with a series of disappointing—but unsurprising—statistics about the summer slide, a term used to describe the academic regression experienced by students over the summer. Quinn and Morgan Polikoff.

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A Guide to Picking a Learning Management System: The Right Questions to Ask

Edsurge

And with certain established companies like Pearson pulling out of the LMS ranks , where do you start? An example of a "narrative stream" on the Schoology LMS platform. We use Schoology. On the EdSurge Product Index alone, 56 products self-identify and fall into the LMS category. Don't love it, don't hate it.

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Promote Executive Functioning within School Culture

edWeb.net

This article was modified and published by eSchool News. is a director at Hayutin & Associates, an educational services company in Santa Monica, California, where she manages a caseload of 75 students and provides clinical supervision to tutors and educational therapists. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Studyo.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

Hack Education

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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KITABOO facilitates key LMS integrations with advanced technological features

Kitaboo on EdTech

In this article, let us explore this idea in greater detail. KITABOO , the world’s leading digital publishing platform with 20 million+ users across the globe adopts advanced technological features apt for big companies, schools, universities, corporates, and enterprises. Therefore, seamless integration is imperative. and LTI 1.3.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

This follows the company’s recent integrations with Canvas and Schoology and its OneRoster alignment. The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. HERO K12, BV INVESTMENT PARTNERS AND SCHOOLMINT ( herok12.com

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The Stories We Were Told about Education Technology (2019)

Hack Education

Far too many articles — and this is surely what its venture capitalist and philanthropist backers hope — have not reflected the landscape but have tried instead to shape it. Cengage and McGraw-Hill announced a merger that would make the new company the second largest textbook publisher in the US. Good work, Adam and Rebekah.