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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On Education

Kindful

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Global Fund For Children. Global Fund For Children.

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Issues with Crowdsourced Data Part 2

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Children's reading skill is strongly correlated with their shoe size -- because older kids have bigger feet and tend to read better. You wouldn't measure all the shoes in a classroom to evaluate the kids' reading ability. Thus the correlation between the SMS feed and the building damage is an artifact or spurious correlation.

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Everything You Need to Know About Data You Learned in Kindergarten

NTEN

One of the most important social skills they work on in my daughter's classroom? Sharing is important because a) it's just the nice thing to do and b) sharing helps build the classroom community. Sharing the book or toy gives both children the common experience that forms the classroom culture. Where are they located?

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The Birth of a Field: Digital Media and Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The environment for learning is no longer in the classroom and its online, and outside of school. MacArthur wants to know: How is digital media changing the way that children learn and develop and what are the implications? "We know very little about the learning that is happening outside of classrooms."

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Educating To Mobilize the Masses

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Often the effective practices are well documented, but the novices -- who are often in the majority -- lack both the core civic skills and the confidence for independent experiential learning. How Computer Games Help Children Learn? available for pre-order. Can we create a playful practice environment and help them understand.

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Celebrating Mission-Driven Success in 2023!

Forum One

million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian. If you would like to help transcribe the remaining documents, please visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center. This project took home six awards this year!

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Celebrating Client Success in 2023!

Forum One

million pages of documents in the Freedmen’s Bureau archive, the largest transcription project ever undertaken by the Smithsonian. If you would like to help transcribe the remaining documents, please visit the Smithsonian Transcription Center. This project took home six awards this year!