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How edtech is transforming bilingual education in the U.S.

eSchool News

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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Edtech, Equity, and Innovation: A Critical Look in the Mirror

Digital Promise

Unfortunately, too many of our investments in educational technology (edtech) have fallen far short of our civil rights aspirations. Taking a more critical look at edtech. Why do we hold edtech products to a lower standard than many other educational factors that interact with our students? We need to make a change.

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How does an intelligent learning platform help teachers create a truly personalized learning environment?

Neo LMS

Modern edtech such as an intelligent learning platform (ILP) can help you achieve this by creating a personalized learning environment. . With the help of edtech, students to learn at their own pace and focus on their specific goals. Moreover, even before the pandemic, educational institutions were eager to adopt edtech.

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Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020

Neo LMS

Edtech is developing at incredible rates, so educators need to be on a constant lookout for the current developments in order to create better learning environments for their students. This drives learner engagement, boosts retention rates and reduces the course dropout rates. Top e-learning trends to keep an eye on in 2020.

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What is an intelligent learning platform for schools and universities?

Neo LMS

Schools and universities have been leveraging the power of edtech for quite a while now. Additionally, teaching with edtech also allowed educators to save time spent on manual tasks thanks to features such as auto-graded assignments. . Lower dropout rates. Read more: 5 Must-have LMS reports for schools.

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The Digital Library’s Best-Kept Secret

Edsurge

article reported that students of universities such as Stanford are spending over $100,000 collectively each semester on course materials that are already freely available to them on the thousands of library databases they don’t know they have access to. This is not a new problem, nor a specific issue pertaining to my university.

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The Lone Ranger Rides Again at ASU+GSV

Edsurge

The ASU+GSV conference in San Diego—where more than 4,000 people gathered this month from the education, edtech, publishing, venture capital and private equity sectors—is a hard conference to describe to typical education professionals, or to teachers who are on strike in states across the country.