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Newsela takes authentic content from the world’s most-trusted providers and turns it into learning materials that are instruction-ready — whether learning is happening in school or at home. This empowers teachers to make decisions and select the best content for their students, while giving administrators the assurance that all content is vetted and aligned to standards. For our team, it was crucial to find a partner with deep domain expertise in K-12 education today, as well as the vision for what's possible tomorrow. It's rare to come across a firm that can combine those qualities to offer best-in-class guidance to a Venture capital fund company rapidly seeking scale.

We are a local news & media agency Called IMZA from London, which works in collaboration with the national news agencies. We are running a website which provides day-to-day news on developments and current events. We are dedicated to the ideals of objectivity, fairness, and transparency. We are inspired by the work of google news and would greatly appreciate being given the opportunity to get registered with News in order to enhance our range and to reach out to a nation-wide audience.

We are a local news & media agency Called IMZA from London, which works in collaboration with the national news agencies. We are running a website which provides day-to-day news on developments and current events. We are dedicated to the ideals of objectivity, fairness, and transparency. We are inspired by the work of google news and would greatly appreciate being given the opportunity to get registered with News in order to enhance our range and to reach out to a nation-wide audience.

We are a local news & media agency Called IMZA from London, which works in collaboration with the national news agencies. We are running a website which provides day-to-day news on developments and current events. We are dedicated to the ideals of objectivity, fairness, and transparency. We are inspired by the work of google news and would greatly appreciate being given the opportunity to get registered with News in order to enhance our range and to reach out to a nation-wide audience.

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Newsela, the replacement for textbooks, raises $100M and becomes a unicorn – TechCrunch

Newsela, a SaaS platform for K-12 instructional material backed by the likes of TCV, Kleiner Perkins, Reach Capital and Owl Ventures, announced today that it has raised $100 million in a Series D round. The financing was led by new investor Franklin Templeton, and brings Newsela’s valuation to $1 billion. The new round is larger than the aggregate of Newsela’s prior capital raised to…

25K Students From Harlem To Hollywood Give Their Views On Gun Laws

The March For Our Lives gathering is taking place this weekend and given the increased pressure put on our leaders from the fall-out from the Parkland shooting, an ed-tech platform used by over 1M teachers from Harlem to Hollywood wanted to help give students a voice on both sides of the issue. (more…)

Most of the time my lesson plans reflect the dept head, which is fine, she has been doing this for 15 years while I have been doing it for two.  But this week I tried something on my own. Our big thing right now is “paired readings” which means two selections of different genres covering the same theme or topic. We’ve done bats and butterflies and this time I decided to pair an article from Newsela on the Grammys with this poem by Naomi Shihab Nye: Famous” BY NAOMI SHIHAB NYE The river is famous to the fish. The loud voice is famous to silence,   which knew it would inherit the earth   before anybody said so.   The cat sleeping on the fence is famous to the birds   watching him from the birdhouse.   The tear is famous, briefly, to the cheek.   The idea you carry close to your bosom   is famous to your bosom.   The boot is famous to the earth,   more famous than the dress shoe,   which is famous only to floors. The bent photograph is famous to the one who carries it   and not at all famous to the one who is pictured.   I want to be famous to shuffling men   who smile while crossing streets,   sticky children in grocery lines,   famous as the one who smiled back. I want to be famous in the way a pulley is famous,   or a buttonhole, not because it did anything spectacular,   but because it never forgot what it could do. Naomi  Shihab Nye, "Famous" from Words Under the Words: Selected Poems by Naomi Shihab Nye, copyright © 1995.  Used with permission of Far Corner Books. And OMG did I want to be able to pair it with this song: