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Best Vocabulary Apps for Students

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

From elementary school students to those preparing for high-stakes tests like the SAT or GRE, these vocabulary apps provide a diverse range of features tailored to different learning styles and objectives. The app provides a comprehensive collection of words appropriate for each grade level, from elementary to advanced SAT-level vocabulary.

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The winners of this year’s Harold W McGraw Jr Prize in Education : Dr. Christine Cunningham, Founder and Director of Engineering is Elementary (EiE) at the Museum of Science; Dr. Sandy Shugart, President of Valencia College; and Chris Anderson, TED “curator.” ” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals.

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Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. ” Via Chalkbeat : “As NYC encourages more elementary teachers to specialize in math , new research shows the strategy could hurt student learning.” Selected has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Propel Capital and Kapor Capital for its teacher-hiring software.

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.” Via Politico : “Partnerships between local law enforcement agencies and federal Immigration and Customs Enforcement led to the displacement of more than 300,000 Hispanic students between 2000 and 2011, with most of those students disappearing from elementary schools.” ” Education in the Courts.

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More PR from Techcrunch : “ Nintendo is bringing Labo kits to elementary schools.” “ Ed Tech Cybersecurity : Suppose they gave a data breach and nobody came,” writes Phil Hill on the Chegg data breach. “ Quizlet hits 50m monthly users,” says the tech PR site Techcrunch.