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A company has made millions selling books on reading instruction rooted in bad science

The Hechinger Report

This podcast, Sold a Story, was produced by APM Reports and reprinted with permission. In this new American Public Media podcast, host Emily Hanford investigates the influential authors who promote this idea and the company that sells their work. Episode 5: The Company Teachers call books published by Heinemann their “bibles.”

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Savvas Learning Company Acquires Whooo’s Reading

eSchool News

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, announced today that it has acquired Whooo’s Reading and its AI-driven technology that enables teachers to quickly and easily determine whether their students comprehend the books they are reading.

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How to Engage Students in Zoom and Teach Effectively at a Distance

The CoolCatTeacher

Sponsor: GoGuardian The State of Engagement Report 2020 has valuable classroom research and information on distance learning best practices. This must-read report is funded by GoGuardian and includes a meta-analysis of best practices in engaging distance learning. Thank you GoGuardian for sponsoring this podcast and the report.

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Assessment and Grading in Distance Learning – How to Get Better

The CoolCatTeacher

His research focuses on professional development and teacher change, program evaluation, assessment of student learning, grading and reporting, instructional effectiveness, and educational reform. Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems. On Your Mark: Challenging the Conventions of Grading and Reporting. Guskey, T.

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BookmarkED Addresses the State of Challenged Books with Industry-First Technology to Enable Parental Choice in School Libraries

eSchool News

With the passing of Texas House Bill (HB) 900 , school districts face a pressing need to meet the changing requirements for parental engagement on library books that children have access to. Library book challenges are increasing across the US. Reducing costs around the challenged book review process.

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Edsoma Partners With MetaMetrics to Report Lexile Measures for Oral Reading

eSchool News

Edsoma readers will receive Lexile oral reading measures and the app’s books will have oral readability measures from the Lexile ® Framework for Oral Reading. MetaMetrics’ measures, products and services are licensed to dozens of education product companies to help achieve that growth. For more information, visit edsoma.com.

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This Is What It’s Like To Work For A Chinese Company In America

EdNews Daily

If you want to learn how business gets done in China, and what it’s like to work in America for a publicly-traded Chinese company, then this is the right podcast for you. Robyn and James recommend two books that they recently read. Listen to the episode here or subscribe. About 51Talk.