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How Much Longer Will Schools Have to Scrape Together Technology Funding?

Edsurge

Funds are available through the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), E-rate program, and federal COVID relief funds like the CARES Act. Only 21 states have any kind of dedicated state funding for technology, and this can range from just digital instructional materials (e.g.

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Six Practices of Schools and School Districts Marching to Obsolescence

The 21st Century Principal

And yet our drop out rates only improve marginally, student measures are down. We are hard at work standardizing our schools, our curriculums, our tests, and even our instructional materials. In public education, there is a strong force that says anomalies and differences are bad.

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Innovate in Publishing: Create Your Digital Magazine Today

Kitaboo on EdTech

Tips to Level Up Your Digital Magazine Creation Journey Be Consistent with your Publishing Make Content Interactive and Engaging Device-Specific Optimization Monetization and E-Commerce Develop a Native Reading App III. Enhance the reader experience by providing instructional materials about your publication’s topic.

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The Complete Cognitive Science Behind Brainscape

Brainscape

These flashcards can be studied in a web browser or smartphone, and come equipped with an engaging user experience that  repeats concepts within a specific personalized interval of time, based on the user's self-rated confidence of each flashcard. Users are required to rate their confidence in each flashcard. After

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The Business of Education Technology

Hack Education

Bust or not, companies across the tech sector, particularly those with high “burn rates” , faced tough choices in 2016: “cut costs drastically to become self-sustaining, or seek additional capital on ever-more-onerous terms,” as The WSJ put it – that is, if they were able to raise additional capital at all.