Bart Epstein
@Bart314
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CEO of Brains & Motion Education; Former Founder/CEO of @EdTech_Evidence; Professor @UVA; CSO/GM @tutordotcom, & Civilian Test Pilot for @NASA. Dad to twin boys
Arlington, VA
Joined September 2008
Prediction: @Delta's decision to block unaccompanied minors from flying HOME will go down in history as one of the stupidest airline decisions of all time. It has damaged the brand immeasurably, and rightly so.
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Pete Buttigieg said on Tuesday that the U.S. Department of Transportation had opened an investigation into Delta’s ongoing response to Friday’s global tech outage.
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President @JoeBiden is the presumptive nominee of @TheDemocrats and he's earned my full support and endorsement. Over the last three years, President Biden has navigated our nation through political turmoil and extraordinary division. We may not always see eye-to-eye on every
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I was honored to be this week's guest on Learning Can't Wait. Hayley and I talked all about the intersection of innovation, evidence, and impatience.
podcast.learningcantwait.com
The Learning Can’t Wait Podcast is your view into how changemakers are driving innovation in the field of education. Each week we interview leaders who are challenging the status quo at a time when...
This week Hayley Spira-Bauer (@Hayley_LCW) sits down with @Bart314 to discuss what it means to be an impatient innovator, and examine how technology is changing education. Join us every Monday at https://t.co/0pHTBoQviS. Next week, we talk to author and advocate @sheldoneakins.
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Great piece by @jillbarshay, who takes stock of the ways that school-based #tutoring and #onlinetutoring programs vary in their approach, implementation, and impact. The factors that matter most for efficacy are coming into focus. @hechingerreport
hechingerreport.org
What we know about tutoring research, how many schools are doing it and how it’s going so far
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A key reason the U.S. leads the world in aerospace, agriculture, defense, and medicine innovation is federal investment in basic research & development. When will we do the same for education? Great piece by @JaveriaSal in @hechingerreport covers the issue https://t.co/7TjO8tKF4a
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Advocates say new government funding is a down payment on long-awaited research and development arm of DOE
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I love to read, listen to, & support great #SpeculativeFiction stories & authors. "It Takes a Village” by Priya Chand is a new favorite. Kate Baker narrates it beautifully in the March 2022 issue of @clarkesworld. @priyachandscifi
https://t.co/9xu4pO65Ja
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Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
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I love to read, listen to, & support great #SpeculativeFiction stories & authors. New favorite is "Wanting Things” novelette by Cal Ritterhoff. Hilarious and touching. Read it, or let @Kate_Baker read it out loud to you, at @clarkesworld March 2022
clarkesworldmagazine.com
Clarkesworld Magazine - Science Fiction & Fantasy
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Excellent reporting by @MilaKoumpilova and @SSKedreporter of @WBEZ shows that Chicago's school system paid for more than 41K laptops and tablets sitting in a warehouse or not yet shipped. Only 174 of 500 district schools have tech coordinators.
wbez.org
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Exciting news: @edtech_evidence & @InnovateEDU are merging to align the work of two nonprofits dedicated to using evidence to improve edtech selection and implementation. We are also releasing a new video & announcing a major grant today. Details here:
innovateedunyc.org
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Great piece from @nadiatamezr in @EdSurge about the importance of teacher agency – one of ten variables in our #EdTechGenome project – in the #edtech selection process. Listening to teachers takes time but it is well worth it. Give them more agency.
edsurge.com
When a school or district decides to cut a check for an edtech product, the end goal isn’t about owning a shiny new piece of hardware or app. The ...
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Thanks to @chalkbeatCHI for the opportunity to weigh in on an ambitious hybrid learning plan in Chicago. We’ve learned that hybrid learning is an important option, but is this district actually going to force students to stay home several days a week?
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Dolton West, in Chicago’s south suburbs, plans to spend the bulk of its federal COVID relief dollars on a hybrid instruction plan. Some experts have questions.
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Spending federal education funding properly isn’t easy — kudos to the schools, districts, and states that are doing the work to understand what programs will probably help their students recover. Read more in @washingtonpost: https://t.co/tHHwLaBtA1
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Grateful for the opportunity to speak with @nadiatamezr about our work with @NCTM to collect in-depth feedback from #math teachers about what #edtech tools work in their classrooms. Read more about the partnership in @EdSurge:
edsurge.com
When educators are researching and comparing edtech tools, they’re not just looking for a solution to a problem. They’re looking for a solution to ...
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Don’t miss our webinar on October 6th at 3pm ET to learn how #EdTech organizations like @AgeofLearning @LearnPlatformUS and @EdTech_Evidence are a part of a movement to make research more accessible and inclusive! Register here: https://t.co/RcWr42NTAP
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#Math teachers across the country — we need your help! @EdTech_Evidence and @NCTM are teaming up to learn about your experiences implementing #edtech, and we want to hear from you. Read more and raise your voice here: https://t.co/QYIgh19baB
#ContextMatters
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A new project by two education nonprofits will pay thousands of teachers to document and share their experiences in selecting and using digital math tools — and that data will be available immediat...
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Excited to share that @EdTech_Evidence is partnering with the National Council of Teachers of Mathematics to help math educators make better-informed #edtech decisions by learning from each other’s experiences. Read more about our work: https://t.co/QYIgh19baB
#MathEd @NCTM
thejournal.com
A new project by two education nonprofits will pay thousands of teachers to document and share their experiences in selecting and using digital math tools — and that data will be available immediat...
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I love to read, listen to, & support great #SpeculativeFiction stories & authors. New favorite is "Voice of the Martyrs” by @MauriceBroaddus Listen to it at https://t.co/kMXJIFbhJN or read it as part of his collection of short stories at
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We are a collection of voices, the assembled history of the many voices that have spoken into our lives and shaped us. Voices of the past, voices of the present, and voices of the future. There is an...
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Thank you to @jillbarshay and @hechingerreport for the opportunity to discuss challenges — and opportunities — related to how schools use (or underuse) “high-dosage” #tutoring contracts. Read the article here:
hechingerreport.org
Tutoring is by far the most effective way to help children catch up at school, according to rigorous research studies. The research community urged schools to spend a big chunk of their roughly $190...
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Thoughtful analysis from @EdInnovationIFE in Mexico about the importance of involving teachers in the edtech selection process. And thanks for the shout-out to the work of @EdTech_Evidence and our friends at @Education_AIR! Read more here:
observatory.tec.mx
Some teachers are not satisfied with the time allocated to learn how to use a new EdTech tool and evaluate its effectiveness.
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Thank you to @ByEmilyTate & @EdSurge for the chance to discuss the need for better research & evidence in the #edtech industry. It’s long past time to provide educators with an organized, independent data system to help them make better edtech decisions:
edsurge.com
Schools are awash in technology in a way never before seen, thanks to the mad dash toward digital that was prompted by the pandemic a little more than ...
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