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The Resource That’s Helping Educators Get Affordable, Quality Books
Recent data shows teachers will spend over $800 out of pocket in school supplies during this calendar year, including nearly $200 for books. But a resource is helping teachers and other educators obtain quality used books for an affordable price.
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Why Teachers Love This New Tool That’s Helping Kids Learn to Read
A new tech tool is helping educators and parents boost kids’ literacy, and it doesn’t have a screen. Tonies, a digital audio platform for children, helps pre-readers and developing readers use their imaginations, allows them to develop reading skills, and encourages them to become storytellers.
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How Phonak Is Cutting Through the Noise and Improving the Classroom Experience
It’s important for all students, including those with hearing loss, to hear well at school. Now, technology is helping provide a solution for better hearing in the classroom.
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How We Can Help Students and Schools Recover
Our public schools need additional capacity to help students reengage with their learning, reconnect with their school community, and recover from disruptions caused by COVID-19. An infusion of proven supports delivered by caring, trained adults will not only accelerate pandemic recovery efforts, but it will also help to address long-standing educational inequities that deny opportunities...
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Ayana Gray and the Importance of Storytelling
Bestselling young adult novelist Ayana Gray explains how she became a writer and what reading and storytelling mean to her.
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What Educators Should Know About the Future of Technology
Two industry experts share their insights into the new technologies enabling remote education and what educators need to know for the future. What should educators know about future trends in technology? Carly Shuler: It’s unlikely that hybrid models of learning will go away. While there is hope that post-pandemic lifewill go back to normal, we’ve...
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The Importance of Early Literacy and Diversity in Reading
Charnaie Gordon, an author and dedicated advocate for diverse children’s books, discusses the trends she’s seen in childhood literacy, why fostering a love of reading is crucial, and why representation in reading matters. You are a huge advocate for diversity in media. Why is it so important for readers, especially young readers, to read and...
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Beating the Curly Hair Blues: Tori Kelly on Inspiring Diversity in Books
During the pandemic, academic and social losses have been huge, including the opportunity to bond with others who do and don’t look like you. American singer, songwriter, and actress Tori Kelly’s latest venture aims to inspire reading through diversity. Celebrating diversity Kelly, who gained fame on season nine of American Idol and has two Grammy...
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Designing Equitable On-Ramps for the National Broadband Highway
Creating a STEM-literate workforce through access to broadband is critical to our nation’s security and prosperity. The good news in the 1950s was the federal government’s massive investment in 48,000-miles of the “Dwight D. Eisenhower National System of Interstate and Defense Highway” that brought unprecedented prosperity to post-WWII United States. The bad news was that state...
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Why Early Literacy Is Essential in Modern Society
Literacy – and specifically reading and writing – will always be the cornerstone of not just education but of our entire society.