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Marc Benioff Wants to Make Bay Area Schools ‘Best in Country’

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million goes to San Francisco Unified School District and Oakland Unified School District to fund principals’ innovative ideas, hiring computer science and math teachers, developing college and career guidance and buying assistive technology for special education. Salesforce’s donation this year of $8.5 million of the total amount.

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Assessments Become More Accessible With Speech Synthesis—and an Almost Human Voice

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EdSurge spoke with Häkkinen about the impact of new speech synthesis technologies on student assessments, and how his company is making the most of them. EdSurge: First, when we say “assistive technologies,” what exactly are we talking about? How do you present science, technology, engineering, and math content?

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What’s New: New Tools for Schools

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GRADECAM ENHANCED ANSWER FORMAT ( www.GradeCam.com ) GradeCam introduced a futuristic new answer format powered by Aita – their proprietary Artificial Intelligence Teaching Assistant technology – that can read and score handwritten letters and words up to twenty characters in length.

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