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Edtech Should Be More Evidence-Driven

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Perhaps most critically, edtech also has potential to provide children with a personalized learning experience tailored to their own context, interests, and abilities—something that a new UNESCO report calls a human right. This type of shift however, will require the edtech sector to undergo a dramatic culture shift.

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Why a Teacher-First Approach Is a Win for Edtech and Education

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Taken to the extreme, when edtech willfully makes product decisions that are not in the best interest of educators and their students, it only serves to contribute to the brokenness of a system that too often fails at providing the basic human right of education to learners across the world.

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What Asian American Educator Stories Reveal About Racial Nuances Within ‘People of Color’

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But within those blanket terms to describe “minorities” are dozens of cultures with unique heritages, ethnicities, and geographic locations. People from those cultures have nuanced histories, perspectives, and experiences in the U.S. What Can Education Leaders Do? who are not white. and in its schools. Claire Jean Kim, Ph.D.,

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