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Teacher Burnout- Symptoms, Causes, and Strategies to Prevent It

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

Classroom risks and resources: Teacher burnout, classroom quality and children's adjustment in high needs elementary schools. This post originally appeared in Educational Technology and Mobile Learning ( www.educatorstechnology.com ). Journal of School Psychology, 53, 337-357. Mearns, J., & & Cain, J. Montgomery, C., &

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

Edsurge

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. And neither is elementary-grade science. with teachers using its materials on a monthly basis in 20 percent of elementary schools. Elementary school is often a forgotten place but it’s the most critical.” million in revenues this year and $1.5

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., the more detailed program rules, as determined by the U.S.

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PROOF POINTS: Even older teens benefit from catch-up classes

The Hechinger Report

A 2005 evaluation found that the program raised the number of students who passed a series of difficult high school exams required for university entrance, earning what is called a Bagrut certificate, by 13 percentage points compared to similar students who didn’t get the extra help.

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A case for educational reparations for the incarcerated

The Hechinger Report

From their analysis of a new study of social mobility, including income, Emily Badger, Claire Cain Miller, Adam Pearce and Kevin Quely wrote, “21 percent of black men raised at the very bottom were incarcerated.” Currently, TOPS is benefitting the wrong families. Approximately 70 percent of the awardees were white.

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More charter schools means fewer early education options, new research shows

The Hechinger Report

They wrote that “insufficient incentives are in place for schools to invest their funds in pre-k in this decentralized setting of highly mobile students.”. High student mobility isn’t new in New Orleans, Weixler said. Related: Could we improve America by treating 2-year-olds better? Sign up for our newsletter.

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‘They’re so weary’: Louisiana teachers recover from back-to-back hurricanes during the pandemic

The Hechinger Report

In the spring, the district deployed mobile hotspots to help bridge the gap, but more recently, “internet outages because of the hurricanes have made data collection difficult,” she said. Tiffany Guillory was a student at McNeese State University in Lake Charles when Hurricane Rita hit in 2005.