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TEACHER VOICE: How students in one Massachusetts town learned to love coding

The Hechinger Report

When I was 8 years old, my father began teaching me a programming language called BASIC, using an Epson QX10 computer. Thousands of students in Plymouth public elementary schools participate in Hour of Code, a lynchpin in our technology curriculum for the past three years. Boy using a tablet. Photo: Jamel Toppin/Mint Images/ZUMA Wire.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

techlearning

CURRICULUM ASSOCIATES AQUIRES MOTION MATH ( www.curriculumassociates.com ) & ( motionmathgames.com ) Curriculum Associates has acquired Motion Math to further help elementary students improve their math fluency and number sense in key conceptual areas. These solutions will be offered to school librarians in the U.S.

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