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EdTech Company ChalkTalk Earns Funding to Help Shape The Future of Teaching

eSchool News

Mohannad then used his experience scoring perfect scores on the SAT I and SAT II to write the first English language learner SAT Prep Book and bootstrap his first education company prior to ChalkTalk from $300 to a franchise operating across 3 countries by the time he was a senior in college. To learn more, visit www.floridafunders.com.

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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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Generative Textbooks

Iterating Toward Openness

For example, my son who is studying cybersecurity recently told me prompted ChatGPT along these lines: ‘You are the hiring manager for a cybersecurity position at a large company. My son tells me this exercise was incredibly helpful and he plans to do it several more times before having a “real” interview.

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Seniors Need Support More Than Ever. One Startup Shows They Can Also Provide It.

Edsurge

Lifelong learning” is an ideal often celebrated in education circles, and a new company is setting out to prove that the pursuit of new skills and knowledge doesn’t stop at age 55, 62 or whenever Social Security retirement benefits kick in in the future. Yet he would argue that the early traction his company has seen suggests otherwise.

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Renaissance Learning Acquires Schoolzilla to Marry Assessment and School Data

Edsurge

For her Schoolzilla company to continue to grow, it needed a larger sales division. based company up for acquisition talks. Schoolzilla, the company perhaps best known for its Mosaic dashboard product, has found a new home with Renaissance Learning , a Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. The company claims to service a third of U.S.

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Open Up Resources Takes A Digital Leap Through Kiddom Partnership

Edsurge

Kiddom , a startup based in San Francisco, will offer core curriculum materials from the nonprofit publisher on its curriculum management system. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5 The system can also recommend follow-up activities and exercises specific to areas where a student may struggle.

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Amazon Will Shut Down TenMarks and Its Digital Math and Writing Tools

Edsurge

She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It Horton, who teaches math and writing to fourth- and fifth-graders at Fremont Elementary School in Springfield, Missouri, says this is the first program that she and a coworker have found that meets their needs for math and writing instruction. It had raised about $4.8

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