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How Can Technology Help Improve Teaching Efficacy in a Classroom?

Kitaboo on EdTech

The effects of mental health are not restricted to the teachers but in turn impact the students they teach, leading to poor academic outcomes, poor student discipline, and higher dropout rates. Reduce administrative workload: Learning Tools Interoperability or LTI has greatly added to the effectiveness of education technology.

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

They expect the same flexibility, mobility and always-on services they get with everything from travel and entertainment, also from educational providers. It’s almost naturally to imagine the brilliant, yet ageing, professor having trouble with newer communication applications or mobile LMS technology.

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Leadership Ignited

A Principal's Reflections

This year, they have decided to rely instead on what NASSP members have reported as the issues that keep principals up at night, such as Common Core implementation, new teacher evaluation models, and dropout prevention and graduation rates. NASSP''s plan is to limit the barrage of content and instead go deeper.

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OPINION: We can and must do better to help Black students enroll in college and succeed

The Hechinger Report

In stories detailing inequities, from post-graduation income gaps to programming that places Black students in less upwardly mobile career tracks , the news consistently demonstrates that our higher education system is not equitably serving Black learners. Related: The college degree gap between Black and white Americans was always bad.

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AllHere Gets a ‘Nudge’ to Scale Low-Cost, Research-Backed Way to Improve Student Outcomes

Edsurge

Along with a software engineer, he started a nonprofit, EdNudge , to build tools that would help schools deliver personalized nudges to students and parents via text automatically. Based in Boston, AllHere has developed tools to help schools track and improve student attendance. Founded in 2015, AllHere works with about 1,100 schools.

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OPINION: Using prime baseball season to strike out summer learning loss

The Hechinger Report

The platform uses social gaming, animation, video and other tools to teach and reinforce critical math, vocabulary, reading and study skills in ways that meet students where they learn today — on mobile phones, tablets and computers.

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Does Presence Equal Progress? Tracking Engagement in Online Schools

Edsurge

Each of us has seen headlines about an online school providing an unaccredited program that looks like a “diploma mill,” or a completely mismanaged school administration that was not prepared for high student mobility or other realities of online learning.

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