K-12 elementary education

Edtech in Preschool and in K-12, elementary education

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Edtech in Preschool and in K-12, elementary education

• Article With a price-sensitive market, EdTech startups need to establish a good pricing model
• Article Lego’s Parent Company Acquires Edtech Firm BrainPOP | EdSurge News
• Article A Clever Way to Measure How Students Actually Use Edtech (and Whether It Works) | EdSurge
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Adaptive Personalized Learning Technology in K12 Education

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a collection of articles looking at trends in Adaptive Learning Technology in K-12 Education

• Article Why Zuckerberg is funding the evolution beyond cookie-cutter education | TechCrunch (2016)
• Article Primer: The Ambitious Home for Ambitious Kids
• Article Lilwil’s personalized learning engine teaches teachers how to teach | TechCrunch (2016)
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Privatization of Education

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Pros and cons of privatization of education

• Article A Public Option For Food | Current Affairs
• Article How to improve charter schools and academies - The Economist explains

Troubles at Pearson (textbook business)

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A collection of articles and videos about the ongoing troubles at Pearson

• Article Finally: Pearson Sells Its US K-12 Courseware Business—for $250 Million | EdSurge News
• Article Top Hat Raises $22.5 Million to Go After Pearson, McGraw-Hill - Bloomberg (2017)
• Article Pearson Explores Sale of Its U.S. K-12 Curriculum Business - Market Brief
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Parenting and teaching after a crisis, tragedy

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A collection of articles and videos looking at Parenting and teaching after a crisis, tragedy

• Article Student Protests: Questions and Answers | Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Article Resiliency After Violence - Ideas for talking with students | Harvard Graduate School of Education
• Article Nine Ways to Help Students Discuss Guns and Violence | Berkeley- Greater Good Magazine
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Tech in the classroom: Laptop, cellphones and iPads in education

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A collection of articles about the debate: should teachers allow iPads, laptops and cell phones in the classroom?

• Article In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical renaissance - Rest of World
• Article Teens And Teachers Say Fortnite Mobile Is Destroying Some Schools
• Article Laptops Are Great. But Not During a Lecture or a Meeting. - The New York Times
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Budget challenges in K12, Elementary and Preschool Education

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a collection of articles looking at Budget challenges in K12, Elementary and Preschool Education

• Article Too many teachers in the US are struggling to get by. Here’s what we can do to help. | TED
• Article 25-Year-Old Textbooks and Holes in the Ceiling: Inside America’s Public Schools - The New York Times
• Article Teacher Pay Is So Low in Some U.S. School Districts That They’re Recruiting Overseas - The New York Times
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Novels and Literature to teach Math

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a collection of books for teachers and students of mathematics

• Article How Reading Novels in Math Class Can Strengthen Student Engagement | MindShift
• Article 10 Books to Spark a Love of Math in Kids of All Ages | MindShift
• Article Books Teachers Share: José Luis Vilson and 'The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time' | MindShift
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Gamification and Education

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a collection of articles and research about Gamification and Education

• Article Where Gamification Went Wrong — and How To Do It Right | Pathgather
• Article When Gamification Goes Wrong (And It Often Does) | Pathgather

Ethics and Teaching

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a collection of articles about ethics and teaching

• Article Why does France insist school pupils master philosophy? - BBC News
• Article To Lie Or Not To Lie - Open University
• Article AI in the public interest: New fund will advance the ethics of artificial intelligence - Knight Foundation
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Education and Academic Research about Teaching Effectiveness

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a collection of articles and resources about Education and Academic Research about Teaching Effectiveness

• Article The Gap Between The Science On Kids And Reading, And How It Is Taught | NPR
• Article England has become one of the world’s biggest education laboratories - The Economist
• Article Can Good Teaching Be Taught? - The New York Times

Learning Technology in K12 Education - SAMR and Bloom models

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a collection of articles looking at Learning Technology in K12 Education - SAMR and Bloom models

• Article SAMR - model designed to help educators infuse technology into teaching and learning
• Article SAMR and Bloom's Taxonomy: Assembling the Puzzle
• Video What Is the SAMR Model?

How to fix education - an Idea - pay teachers more

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a collection of articles about a simple idea -- pay teachers more money -- to fix education

• Article House Prices and Local Spending on Public School Teachers | NBER
• Article Too many teachers in the US are struggling to get by. Here’s what we can do to help. | TED
• Article Teachers deserve more than appreciation - Fareed Zakaria - The Washington Post
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Advisors in Education

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A collection of articles and videos about academic advisors

• Article Can the Right Nudge Help Low-income Kids Go Beyond High School? | MindShift
• Article Are You Still There? How a ‘Netflix’ Model For Advising Lost Its Luster | EdSurge News

Wework and K12 Education

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a collection of articles looking at K12 Education innovations and ideas

• Article WeWork Founder Hopes Her New School Will Help 5-Year-Olds Pursue Their Life’s Purpose
• Article Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork | EdSurge News
• Article What We Learned About WeWork’s Education Operations From Its IPO Filing | EdSurge News
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Inequality in K-12 Education and the “Achievement Gap”

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a collection of articles looking at Inequality in K-12 Education and the “Achievement Gap”

• Article How cities and schools can work to close the achievement gap - Harvard
• Article Initial Lessons from the By All Means Consortium
• Article America Lets Too Much Young Talent Go to Waste - Bloomberg Opinion

Homeschools, Charter Schools and Privatization of K-12 Education (USA)

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a collection about Charter Schools and Privatization of K-12 Education (USA)

• GoogleFile US Education Review - Google Slides - 2019 - Union Square Ventures
• Article How to improve charter schools and academies - The Economist explains
• Video Charter Schools - Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
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Preschool and early Childhood Education

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a collection of articles looking at Preschool Education

• Article The Possibilities for Tech (and Screentime) in the Preschool Classroom | EdSurge News
• Article What Every School Can Learn from This Age-Old Approach to Nurturing Independence | EdSurge News
• Article Mr. Rogers's Simple Set of Rules for Talking to Kids - The Atlantic
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Content, Resources for Teachers: Sharing Educational Resources

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a look at the various platforms available for teachers to share educational resources with each other

• Article Odilo raises $64M as its white-label e-learning library passes 8,500 customers and 170M users – TechCrunch
• Article Go1 nabs $100M at a $2B+ valuation to upgrade its curated enterprise learning platform – TechCrunch
• Article New Educator Exchange Enables College Faculty to Earn Money for Academic Resources
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Project-based learning experiences in K12 Education

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a collection of articles looking at trends in Project-based learning experiences in K12 Education

• Article The Six Must-Have Elements Of High Quality Project-Based Learning | MindShift
• Article First space, then auto—now Elon Musk quietly tinkers with education | Ars Technica
• Article Children learn best when engaged in the living world not on screens – Nicholas Tampio | Aeon Essays
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Design of Schools: Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

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a collection of articles looking at the Design of Schools: Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

• Video The best kindergarten you’ve ever seen | TEDTakaharu Tezuka
• Article Children learn best when engaged in the living world not on screens – Nicholas Tampio | Aeon Essays
• Article Why an MIT professor says we should all learn like kindergartners if we want to succeed
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Private Schools - Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

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a collection of articles looking at Private Schools - Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

• Article WeWork Founder Hopes Her New School Will Help 5-Year-Olds Pursue Their Life’s Purpose
• Article How to improve charter schools and academies - The Economist explains
• Website Prenda - The neighborhood school reimagined
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Microschools - Private Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

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Microschools - Private Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

• Article Primer: The Ambitious Home for Ambitious Kids
• Article Primer Blog | A bit about Primer
• Website Prenda - The neighborhood school reimagined

Pre-Kindergarden Education and Daycare

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a collection of articles looking at Private Schools pre - Kindergarden

• Article Wonderschool raises $20M to help people start in-home preschools – TechCrunch
• Article The High Cost of Running a Daycare | Topic

Teaching Coding and Computer Science in K12, Elementary Schools

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a collection of articles looking at how schools are Teaching Coding and Computer Science in K12, Elementary Schools

• Article How to teach Coding in High School? | CodeHS
• Video What Most Schools Don't Teach - Learn to Code
• Article Path to a free self-taught education in Computer Science - GitHub - ossu/computer-science
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Knewton and Troubles at Pearson (textbook business)

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A collection of articles and videos about the ongoing troubles at Pearson

• Article Pearson, an Investor in Knewton, Is ‘Phasing Out’ Partnership on Adaptive Products | EdSurge News
• Article Knewton’s New Business Attracts New $25M in Funding. But Some Things Don’t Change. | EdSurge News

K-12 Common Core and Standardized Testing

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a collection of articles looking at K-12 Common Core and Standardized Testing

• Video Standardized Testing: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• Article Florida Standards Online toobox resources
• Book Common Core - National Education Standards and the Threat to Democracy
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Chat apps Ed-Tech in Elementary K12 Education - including ClassDojo, Remind, and others

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Chat apps Ed-Tech in Elementary K12 Education - including ClassDojo, Remind, and others

• Website School communication shouldn’t be so hard.
• Website Fiveable - Group Study Rooms with Timer
• Video It's Surprising How Much Small Teams Can Get Done - Sam Chaudhary of ClassDojo
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Quora, Stack Overflow, and other Question Q/A websites and apps

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a collection of articles about startups - Question Q/A websites and apps

• Article Stack Overflow adds a free tier to its fast-growing Teams service – TechCrunch
• Article Stack overflow for teams
• Article Why You Should Never, Ever Use Quora – Waxy.org
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Design of School Calendars - Scheduling the School Day, Summer, Vacation

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a collection of articles looking at the Design of School Calendars - Scheduling the School Day, Summer, Vacation

• Article Why Does the School Day End 2 Hours Before the Workday? - The Atlantic
• Article How Teachers Deal With a Longer School Day - The Atlantic
• Article Kids Who Spend All Day at School - The Atlantic
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Outdoor Preschools - Design of Schools: Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

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a collection of articles looking at the Design of Schools: Kindergarden, Elementary and K-12

• Article How to Pick an Outdoor Preschool
• Article The Push for Outdoor and Nature-Based Preschools - The Atlantic
• Article Children learn best when engaged in the living world not on screens – Nicholas Tampio | Aeon Essays
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School safety - gun violence, police in K12 education

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a collection of articles looking at how technology is being used to enhance Elementary and Preschool Education

• Article Video of 6-year-old girl's arrest shows the perils of putting police in primary schools

Edtech apps -technology for Elementary K12 Education

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a collection of articles looking at Marketing Platforms for Ed-Tech apps - how to connect with schools in Elementary K12 Education

• Article Outschool is the newest edtech unicorn – TechCrunch
• Article Primer: The Ambitious Home for Ambitious Kids
• Website Fiveable - Group Study Rooms with Timer
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Amazon and Education

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Amazon struggles with Inspire, an Open Education Resource (OER) platform for teachers. A collection of articles looking at Amazon and OE...

• Article Amazon Launches Udemy Competitor
• Article Amazon's Footprint Grows in K-12 Purchasing. Should We Be Worried? - Market Brief
• Article Amazon Launches 'Inspire,' a Free Education Resource Search Platform for Educators | EdSurge News
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Poppy - a Startup innovating Pre-Kindergarden Education and Daycare

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a collection of articles looking at Private Schools pre - Kindergarden

• Podcast Avni Patel Thompson founded Poppy - YC YCombinator podcast on Spotify
• Video Building a Startup is About Solving a Problem || Avni Patel Thompson of Poppy

School safety, surveillance, privacy - gun violence, police in K12 education

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a collection of articles looking at how technology is being used to enhance Elementary and Preschool Education

• Article How One Company Surveils Everything Kids Do and Say in School (buzzfeednews.com)
• Article How Tech Companies Are Selling Colleges on Mass Data Collection | EdSurge News (2019)
• Article The Delicate Ethics of Using Facial Recognition in Schools | WIRED
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Education and Design Thinking

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A collection of articles and videos looking at UX / UI and Design Thinking

National Geographic - Educational Resources

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a collection of educational resources from National Geographic

• Article One Strange Rock - Educational Resources | National Geographic Society
• Website Resource Library | National Geographic Education
• Article Strategy Share: Exploring the World Through Documentary Filmmaking – National Geographic Education Blog
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Affordable Child Care and Paid Family Leave - issues for parents in preschool and early education

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a collection of articles looking at Preschool Education

• Video The American Case for Paid Maternity Leave | Jessica Shortall | TEDxSMU
• Video Paid Family Leave: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO)
• Article America's parents want paid family leave and affordable child care. Why can't they get it? - USA Today (2019)
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Clever - edtech app store for K-12

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single sign-on to make it easier for schools to manage their various edtech accounts

• Article Kahoot Acquires Clever for $500M, Hoping to Expand Its Presence in the U.S. | EdSurge
• Article Take Two: Clever’s Newest Effort to Help Teachers Try Before They Buy Edtech
• Article Clever Badges - The easiest way to log in
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Pearson - digital textbooks, Edtech

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Pearson - digital textbooks, Edtech

• Article Pearson Signals Major Shift From Print by Making All Textbook Updates ‘Digital First’ | 2019 - EdSurge News
• Article Clutch Prep’s journey from startup to exit: What a run it was - Refresh Miami
• Article Finally: Pearson Sells Its US K-12 Courseware Business—for $250 Million | EdSurge News
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ChatGPT and AI in education - tips, tricks for teachers

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ChatGPT and AI in education - tips, tricks for teachers

• Article Assigning AI: Seven Ways of Using AI in Class
• Article I asked ChatGPT to develop a college class about itself. Now, it’s teaching it.
• Article Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful
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Renaissance Education - Edtech in Preschool and in K-12, elementary education

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Renaissance Education - Edtech in Preschool and in K-12, elementary education

• Article Miami edtech startup Nearpod acquired by Renaissance – TechCrunch

Fiveable - Personalized Roadmap for High School

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ed-tech startup Fiveable - Personalized Roadmap for High School

• Article Fiveable's Series A | Union Square Ventures
• Article SAT Exam Review 2021 | Study Guides, Trivia, Lives | Fiveable
• Article AP US History Exam Review 2021 | Study Guides, Trivia, Lives | Fiveable

Using hip-hop in the classroom.

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Using hip-hop in the classroom.

• Article How hip-hop has enhanced American education over the past 50 years, from rec rooms to classrooms
• Article What Is Hip-Hop-Based Education Doing in Nice Fields Such as Early Childhood and Elementary Education?
• Article Statistics & Probability Hip-Hop Videos & Lessons | Flocabulary - Flocabulary

ChatGPT and AI in education - tips, tricks for students

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A collection of resources about ChatGPT and AI in education, designed to enhance the learning experience for students. This compilation o...

• Video ChatGPT Study Mode - Explained By A Learning Coach
• Video AI in education: 5 SECRET Ways to Become a Speed Learner With ChatGPT
• Video ChatGPT code interpreter: A Literal *AI Game Changer* for Research & Academia

Taxes, Policy, K-12 Education in the USA and Inequality

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a collection of articles about Taxes, Policy, K-12 Education in the USA and Inequality

• Video Liberal Hypocrisy is Fueling American Inequality. Here’s How. | NYT Opinion

Problem: Grading Inflation in K12 and Higher Education

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Is an A really with an A? A collection of articles about the Problem: Grading Inflation in Higher Education

• Article Make School Hard Again – Reason.com
• Article How an epidemic of grade inflation made A’s average | PBS NewsHour
• Article Why professors inflate grades: Because their jobs depend on it - Slate
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Writing: Helping students become better writers

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A collection of resources on Writing: Helping students become better writers

• Article NoRedInk Raises $50M to Help All Students Harness the Power of the Written Word | Business Wire
• Website TextFX - AI tool from google, for writers

Homeschooling - K12 Education

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Homeschooling - K12 Education

• Article National Geographic launches a homeschool hub for parents and teachers, NatGeo@Home
• Article Opting Out Of The Legacy Model – AVC
• Note Edtech: How Outschool uses Zoom for teacher-student communication
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Edtech apps - homework help, question/ answer software for Elementary K12 Education

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Edtech apps - homework help, question/ answer software for Elementary K12 Education

• Article Brainly. Q/A for students
• Website Piazza - website - The incredibly easy, completely free Q&A platform
• Article Brainly raises $80M as its platform for crowdsourced homework help balloons to 350M users
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