Larry Berger
@LarryAmplify
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CEO @Amplify
New York, NY
Joined December 2008
Kids Think Math Is Useless and Irrelevant and That Isn’t the Main Problem Here, by @ddmeyer
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NEW: An NYT investigation has found that scores of Hasidic Jewish schools in New York are purposely denying some 50,000 students a basic secular education – and have received $1 billion in taxpayer dollars over the last 4 years. w/ @brianmrosenthal
https://t.co/mjODtkjiMr
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New York’s Hasidic Jewish religious schools have benefited from $1 billion in government funding in the last four years but are unaccountable to outside oversight.
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This is, perhaps, #TheAbsoluteBest #MathEd themed tweet I’ve seen in the last 3 years! 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 👀 😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮😮 😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲😲 😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃😃 🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩🤩
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📣 Exciting news. Desmos Classroom—the team running our free activities, free Activity builder, and math curriculum—is joining forces with @Amplify. https://t.co/p5jPwGe2LI
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It's rare, but every once in a while one falls in love with an ed tech product. When it came to Mathigon, it was love at first polygon for me and the team at Amplify... I am so delighted we are joining forces. Expect big - and intricate little - things!
We’re excited to announce that Mathigon is joining @Amplify! You can read more in our press release at https://t.co/Pcuo07Pw4A. Polypad and our other tools will remain freely available, and you can look forward to many cool new features in the next few months!
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what is with this tendency in the ed sector towards terrible, redundant modifiers? i.e., "strategic leadership," "transformational innovation," and "dramatically better?"
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Maybe it wasn’t such a great idea to reduce the number of classes that teach civics, democracy and American history?
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In 1964 a Black and Jewish man fighting for civil rights in the south were murdered for their leadership. Today a Black and Jewish man fighting for civil rights in the south were made US Senators for their leadership. “Let freedom ring from Stone Mountain of Georgia” indeed
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📣 ATTENTION TEACHERS 📣 We're building a new site for teachers where you can engage in conversations around teaching & learning, anti-racism edu, ed policy, mental health, etc. If you would like to be one of our first testers, DM/reply to this tweet.
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The Biden team may not be getting their transition briefings, but the students of American can at least get to work on some inaugural poems. #InaugurationDay2021
https://t.co/lPkYhXYnuJ
poets.org
New York, NY (November 12, 2020)— The Academy of American Poets, the nation’s leading c
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An educator from Oakland Unified Schools District shared this image with me. The air feels lighter as they start school this week. The future brighter. Our POTUS and VP elect will continue a path that’s been carved by the fortitude of others. Some even as young as six.
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You earned it, class of 2020! See you Saturday night at your graduation celebration! This is going to be great.
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Fantastic ideas from my colleague Amy Syvertsen on how to use this moment of crisis to help your children become better people and better citizens:
blog.searchinstitute.org
By Amy K. Syvertsen, PhD, Director of Applied Quantitative Research and Senior Research Scientist Social distancing efforts have led us to see connection as a threat rather than a strength. Yet, the...
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Young Scientists @PS41CROCHERON keep sharing how they’re Exploring Science in the home today! @D26Team @nadya_awadallah @NYCElemScience @Amplify @KoryBennett13
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.@CommonSense brings together dozens of big players in education, media & tech to create @WideOpenSchool, a free resource hub for distance learning during #COVID19 @The74
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Under normal circumstances, companies like Time for Kids, Scholastic and Khan Academy are competitors; after all, each provides educational content, and teachers can bring only so many apps and...
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Books Briefing: If your attention span is shrinking, read poetry.
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