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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business. New Jersey specifically) in an interview.

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Finding Pride in American Service

ASU Lodestar Center

Program Associate, New Global Citizens. About eighteen months ago, I was standing outside a Thai classroom in the open courtyard of an elementary school in Bangkok, watching from a second-story perch as Thai children "marched" in the center recreation area. Dianna Schwartz , Public Allies Arizona Alumna /. on their own. Even our U.S.

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A semester in solitude

The Verge

We can feel like we’re in the classroom,” she says. Emma Marszalek, a junior at George Washington University who spent the semester at home in New Jersey, hasn’t attended the movie screenings, trivia nights, guest performances, and other virtual events that her school has put on. “As As cute as it is.

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Social Media For School Leaders

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In 264 pages, Dixon, with ten years of classroom experience in public, private and charter schools, shares his deep knowledge of social media to provide detailed descriptions of the best online tools available for school leaders.

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Innovamat tallies up $21M to reinvent math education

TechCrunch

in New Jersey. Its plans include putting investment into more R&D, with a new research center focused on mathematics pedagogy and learning: currently its materials go up to the end of middle school and it’s working on the next implementations to take the courses up to 18.

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What a speech controversy at Stanford tells us about Facebook?s Oversight Board

The Verge

For some, the McConnell classroom incident shouldn’t even qualify as an “incident” at all — a professor simply taught history, using the language of history, while condemning it to his students. Reported cases in New York: 379,977. Total test results (positive and negative) in New York: 2,229,473.

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