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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. Teacher Travis Olsen has an exercise bike in the back of his seventh-grade science classroom that kids are welcome to use whenever they feel the need.

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My School Learned The Hard Way That Edtech Saves Time, But It Can't Solve Human Problems

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While it’s difficult to determine how much has been spent on Edtech , we do know that investments in education technology companies have nearly quadrupled since the beginning of the pandemic. These companies have claimed to solve any number of problems a school faces. Need to foster relationships between students?

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Meet the Edtech Grantees of Google’s $25 Million AI Impact Challenge

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Founded in 2013, the New York City-based organization offers web-based exercises that asks students to fix and improve sentences. Quill has recently expanded its exercises to focus on the use of conjunctions as a key mechanic to helping students write construct clear sentences. Another grant—$1.5

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PROOF POINTS: Controversies within the science of reading

The Hechinger Report

Four meta-analyses conclude that it’s more effective to teach phonemic awareness with letters, not as an oral-only exercise. Researchers proved that these auditory skills could be taught and early studies showed that they could be taught as a purely oral exercise without letters. Phonemic awareness has a complicated history.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

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Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.) The company says it has 50 hiring partners and plans to grow the list.

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Golden State GDPR: What the Edtech Industry Should Know About CA’s New Privacy Rules

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This is a game-changing law that will impact companies in the U.S. toward closer alignment with the European Union, where the General Data Protection Regulation (“GDPR”) went into effect in May. GDPR mandated increased transparency and individual control over personal data. and globally, and moves the U.S.