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Pearson Still Won’t Buy Your Startup. But It May Invest in It.

Edsurge

Pearson probably still won’t buy your startup. Today, the publisher announced the launch of Pearson Ventures, a $50 million fund earmarked for education technology startups raising Series A and B rounds. The fund is framed as an effort to “future proof the company,” says Owen Henkel, managing director of Pearson Ventures.

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How to build deep relationships with students

eSchool News

As Rita Pearson details in her famous TED Talk , every child deserves a champion or an adult who can make them feel safe and insist on them being the best they can be. Take a minute and think about that: students need to feel safe. Relationships with students matter.

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How to enhance students’ work-ready skills

Neo LMS

The question is, how can we better prepare our students for their future jobs, so that when they get hired, they already possess the basic set of skills needed to perform their job? How to enhance students’ work-ready skills. Technical skills are important, but also soft skills that shape how students think and react to the world.

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Pearson Research and Innovation Network | TeacherCast App Spotlight

TeacherCast

Jeff sits down with Brad Ermiling to discuss his work at the Pearson Research and Innovation Network. About Pearson. Pearson is the world’s leading learning company, with 40,000 employees in more than 80 countries working to help people of all ages to make measurable progress in their lives through learning. Links of interest.

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Pearson to Host Assessment for Learning

edWeb.net

edWeb.net , an award-winning professional learning network, today joined forces with Pearson on its professional learning community, Assessment for Learning. She will also answer questions such as how to select and implement assessments while balancing concerns of over testing and time away from instruction.

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Self-Regulation in the Personalized Classroom

A Principal's Reflections

In the beginning, we discussed how to make sure the tasks they chose for their lists were reasonable to finish in 17 minutes. At the end of class, the students add their post-it to our chart on the class whiteboard to show how many of their tasks they finished. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson-Prentice Hall. Ormrod, J.

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Pearson Bets One Small Step for Research Is a Leap for Learning Design

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Pearson Education did something it’s never done before. While there’s nothing new in the 102-page public document —everyone knows that giving feedback and inquiry-based learning methods have benefits—the effort signals how research and industry can be tied more closely. These are the things that make up our products.”

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