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I Worked for ESL Companies with Lousy Curriculums. Here’s What I Learned — And What You Should Look For.

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Likewise, this trend took off in China and grew to be worth many billions of dollars, thanks to companies like VIPKid that eventually hired upward of 100,000 foreign educators—mostly Americans—to tutor millions of kids in China. Tutoring companies have since formed and grown all over the world, from Eastern Europe to Canada, from the U.S.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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The Pandemic Makes Dyslexia a Greater Challenge. But We Know How to Solve It.

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When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability.

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Can Learning Science Help Teachers Design More Effective Civics Lessons?

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The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Of course, like every other subject, the true test and value of civics and history extends far beyond academics and assessments. An Untimely Disruption.

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School ed tech money mostly gets wasted. One state has a solution 

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This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Because of these requirements, some companies opt out of partnering, said Ames.

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U.S. ranks No. 13 in new collaborative problem-solving test

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That’s according to a new, unusual version of the Program for International Student Assessment, or PISA, which tested collaborative problem-solving skills among 15-year-olds in more than 50 countries and regions around the world in 2015. For example, the United States ranked 39th in math on the 2015 PISA test. ranked 13th.

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How Offline-First Edtech Addresses Education Disparities Worldwide

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Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. For example, Kolibri can be installed and updated with the software and content in different ways.

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