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How to get your educational nonprofit into classrooms, without leaving the office

The Nerdy NonProfit

One method for an educational nonprofit to expand its reach is by getting into the classroom remotely through the use of modern technology. Students with limited resources can benefit tremendously from remote classroom access by educational nonprofits. Virtual classroom connections. The future of remote classroom learning.

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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

Promova , whose mission is to make language learning more accessible to people who are neurodivergent, is the first language learning app to build a dedicated setting for those with dyslexiaa specialized typeface and adjustments to font size and brightness help mitigate some of the most common reading challenges that people with dyslexia experience.

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Why some school districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

Fast Company Tech

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Windows are low to the ground so children can easily look outside. Hallways are lined with a corrugated plastic for wiggly fingers to touch as children transition to other locations.

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Amira Learning raises $11M to put its AI-powered literacy tutor in post-COVID classrooms

TechCrunch

In classrooms, a common exercise is to have students read aloud from a storybook or worksheet. bringing fairly conventional edtech software into elementary school classrooms at scale. On that note, considering the prevalence of English language learners with accents, I asked about the company’s performance and approach there.

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Visiting Schools in Pohnpei

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The classrooms have doors that open to the outside, because of the warm weather. Most classrooms have desks and textbooks and all have chalkboards. For the most part, the English language textbooks were as modern as textbooks you'd see in mainland U.S. The books in the local languages were not in as great a shape.

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Novakid’s investors bet $35M that it can teach kids English

TechCrunch

If you’re trying to develop fluency in a non-native tongue, language immersion is a crucial part of the learning process. The San Francisco-based edtech startup offers virtual-only, English language immersion for kids between the ages of four through 12, by combining a mix of different services from live tutors to gamification.

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Beijing School for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

So, in Hong Kong and in Beijing we saw sensory stimulation rooms for these children. We visited the English language classroom. These were quite familiar to folks like Frank Simpson of the Lavelle School in New York and Miki Jordan of the Junior Blind of America in Los Angeles.