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Melmark | March 10, 2023

On March 09, 2023, Melmark, a non-profit human service organization, started a new school facility for special education and recreational environment in Stoughton, Massachusetts. It selected Maggiore Construction Corporation with Roth and Seelen, Inc. to design and build this facility. It conducted the groundbreaking ceremony on January 24, 2023. This facility will offer a state-of-the-art and accessible special education learning and recreational surrounding, opening in May. It...

ft | August 24, 2020

Schools around the world have reopened their doors or are preparing to restart, in many cases while coronavirus transmission rates are rising, provoking fresh concerns about whether and how the process should take place.After a near global shutdown of education settings as the pandemic spread earlier this year, 22 countries have now fully reopened their schools. By mid September, 12 will do so and 55 have permitted partial reopening, using different strategies to mitigate the risk of transmissio...

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Linewize US | March 01, 2023

On February 28, 2023, Linewize, an education technology company, launched the Linewize Pulse platform for real-time actionable insights on students' well-being with weekly online check-ins for individual and organizational intervention, enhancing overall school culture. Its 60-second weekly check-ins include questions related to well-being and school experience. Through these check-ins, it offers an overview of students' mental health and anonymously gathers school-level...

educationdive | March 18, 2020

Educator Elizabeth Matlick writes for EdSurge that she started using self-assessments, writing reflections and peer reviews with her middle and high school students in a bid to extend guidance on their writing beyond her suggestions. However, Matlick found her students weren’t using these critiques as she’d hoped, according to a story in Edutopia. She then looked into research on how a learner’s emotional state may prevent them from taking in suggestions, finding her students w...