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Working with the Institute of Education Sciences data can be challenging at times. Check out this guide for details on applications and access processes for working with restricted use data. https://lnkd.in/gNpURhXD

Congrats to Renaissance Philanthropy and Advanced Research + Invention Agency (ARIA), who just announced a new partnership to explore high-risk, high-reward research projects that have the potential to unlock new tech advancements. Together the two will work to find the most promising technical ideas and translate them into breakthrough solutions and products. https://lnkd.in/eJDcySWH

In the latest blog post from Alliance for Learning Innovation (ALI), Margo Roen discusses why everyone (parents, educators, students, district leaders) should be involved in the education R&D process. She argues that making education R&D more accessible is how innovation leaders can create inclusive and equitable solutions. Read more here: https://lnkd.in/eHpfSfdh #LEVImath

To create tools that make real change in education, collaboration between academia and the #edtech industry is a must. Read more on The Cutting Ed from Natalia Kucirkova, Director of the International Centre for EdTech Impact; WiKIT, on how relationships across stakeholders are critical to helping students. https://lnkd.in/gEEZBUBE

There's only 3 days left to submit abstracts for the 2025 Tools Competition. The award pool has increased to $2.3M, and abstracts only require 1-2 pages.  Competitors have the chance to win between $50k-$300k for their #edtech tools. Submit by Oct 25 here: https://lnkd.in/evzDScJV

Interested in refining your educational tools or driving classroom innovation? Check out our new Educator Insight Panel! Learn more about how you can provide researchers, entrepreneurs, and education leaders with direct access to the insights of K-12 teachers here: https://lnkd.in/ghh5gGHG

Want to know what type of abstract will be competitive for the Tools Competition? Although tracks and priorities vary from year to year, the past winning tools below are examples of what could be competitive for each opportunity. Abstracts are due October 25. - Accelerating Learning Track: https://lnkd.in/gQyMESap   - Enhancing Post-Secondary Learning Track: https://lnkd.in/gUPU3jRP  - Dataset Prize: https://lnkd.in/gDbB5kpN See more here: https://lnkd.in/g22-ybum 

Questions are a key part to both learning and teaching comprehension skills in young learners, but generating high quality reading questions can be time-consuming. Datasets can help solve this by creating quality questions to help students. The Quest challenge dataset was aided by foundational data from the Lab’s FairytaleQA dataset of 10,580 questions. Learn more about the Quest challenge and how it helps solve this problem here: https://lnkd.in/gvxwh4Wy

Many school districts are working with third-party tutor providers to recover from COVID, but they face distinct challenges. Learn more about Metro Nashville Public Schools’ district-operated tutoring initiative and the valuable lessons they learned from tutoring programs in the wake of the height of the pandemic. https://lnkd.in/gYfb6XHa

To get trustworthy and reliable #AI tools, it's essential to train them on diverse and quality educational datasets. In this article, Ulrich Boser and Scott Crossley discuss strategies to spur the creation of critical datasets that can be used to train AI models that better serve all students. https://lnkd.in/gMJjrNiz