Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

After two “salvage operations” where she turned around struggling companies, Susan Kim wanted a break from the fervor of startup life. But when she got a call a year ago about an education company with a vibrant community of teachers, she reconsidered. At the time of its sale to NetDragon, the company reported a loss of $19.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2018

That’s how much the Landham, Maryland-based company raised through its latest public offering of common stock this week. He’s referring to the South Africa-based company that works with universities to build short online courses, which 2U purchased for $103 million in May 2017. It posted $92.3 Still, 2U wants more cash.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

Before BrainPOP, Glovin held a number of business development roles for educational technology companies. In his early career, he held marketing roles with a number of media and publishing companies. Osmo is an award-winning STEAM brand, wholly owned by BYJU’S, the leading global edtech company. Glovin has a B.A.

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Edsurge

MAY 6, 2019

Publicly-traded companies like Wiley generally share the price of their acquisitions, unless the financial impact is considered immaterial to the buyer’s bottom line. The New York City-based company has raised more than $180 million in investment capital. 1, 2019), the company reported a more than 20-percent decline in this division.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2020

The themes are the same year after year after year: more surveillance, more inequality, more dismantling of public education by tech companies and by tech narratives about "the future of work" and so on. But there's one thing that I've learned penning these year-end posts for the last decade or so: not much changes. " Cop s**t."

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edWeb.net

JUNE 14, 2019

Lisa Schmucki launched edWeb.net in 2008 to use emerging social networking technology to help educators connect and collaborate and break down the silos and traditional barriers that have existed in education. The post The edWeb Team is going to be at ISTE 2019 appeared first on edWeb. The community now has over 10,000 members.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 21, 2020

edWeb.net was announced as one of the Elite 200 companies who will compete in the GSV Cup and will now present at the 2020 ASU GSV Summit. Three companies will be chosen as finalists during the Summit, receiving a prize package of $250,000 in cash and $100,000 in Google Cloud credits. To learn more about the Elite 200, visit: [link].

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 13, 2019

Check out Jennifer Gonzalez’s 2019 Teacher’s Guide to Technology. A 2008 Ball State University study found that 43% of teachers said they slept an average of 6 hours or less per night. Enjoy your food in the company of the people there. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Consulting firm McKinsey & Company calculated that U.S. million students calculated that in the spring of 2021 students in each grade scored three to six percentile points lower on a widely used test, the Measures of Academic Progress or MAP, than they did in 2019. But in 2019, the reading performance of all students deteriorated.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. This marks the largest purchase to date by 2U, which launched in 2008 to work with colleges and universities to create online graduate degree programs. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

1924, 1936, 1948, 1960, 1972, 1984, 1996, 2008, 2020), you will probably have these characteristics: "You see roadblocks as opportunities, and you have tons of creativity that keeps you from getting bored. Zodiac animal: Rat Rat in Chinese culture is associated with affluence, wealth, and surplus. If you were born in the Dog year (e.g.,

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eSchool News

MAY 11, 2021

In 2019, over $88 billion was borrowed to pay for medical costs and these were not necessarily related to lack of health insurance. Founded in 2008, EVERFI is fueled by its Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) community engagement platform and has reached more than 41 million learners globally. About EVERFI, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2022

There are a lot of companies limiting out a lot of talent. When the economy tanked in 2008 and millions of laid-off workers began competing for scarce jobs, employers got pickier about who they hired and increasingly added four-year degree requirements to some “middle-skills” jobs that had frequently been filled by workers without degrees.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. The MIT Press, Cambridge, MA, 2008), pp. Pear Press, San Francisco, 2008). Teachers College, Columbia University Teachers College, New York, 2019). What happened to the brain with limitless potential? UC Santa Barbara.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Rural schools accounted for 70 percent of the 1,600 schools that had adopted a four-day schedule by the spring of 2019. The answer matters because hundreds of thousands of students at more than 1,600 schools across 24 states were heading to school only four times a week by the spring of 2019, according to one estimate.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

The company reported $68.3 Instructure has more than 4,000 customers, which includes learning institutions and companies. Still, the company slightly lowered its expected revenue for the year to between $257.1 International sales accounts for about 20 percent of total revenue for Instructure, which was founded in 2008.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

The company that set the bar for hyping adaptive-learning technology has had to adapt to new leadership and a new business model. Knewton has raised $25 million in a new funding round—the eighth since it launched in 2008. But some things seem to stay the same—such as its ability to win new investors and capital.

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Edsurge

JULY 6, 2017

The media started calling this space MOOCs or Massive Open Online Courses, a term coopted from a 2008 experiment. Skillsoft, an e-learning provider that exclusively sells to businesses, claims to have 400 million learners including 65 percent of Fortune 500 companies. Coursera plans to have up to 20 online degrees by the end of 2019.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Trying to keep students in school.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 9, 2020

He is the author of Free Play (Penguin, 1990) and The Art of Is (New World Library, 2019). In 2008, after her column "Why I Let My 9-Year-Old Ride the Subway Alone" landed her on every talk show from The Today Show to Dr. Phil, Lenore founded the book and blog “ Free-Range Kids.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post In 2008, Wiese moved to Virginia to attend Regent University School of Law. He received his doctorate in 2019 and now serves as vice president of programs for The Fortune Society, an education, service and advocacy organization focused on criminal justice and re-entry.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Buoyed by unemployment benefits, Shareef enrolled, and four months later, he started work as a junior web developer for a retail company in his hometown of Cincinnati. The program is part of an effort to boost the share of people in the state who have postsecondary education to 60 percent by 2030, up from 45 percent in 2019.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

Many would point to the high-profile announcements of expanded tuition-assistance programs from companies such as Starbucks , McDonald’s , Walmart and Chipotle as evidence of increased employer investment in employee development. This trend is laudable, and it is having an impact—but it masks a much more mixed picture.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 26, 2016

“Those that don’t will be companies that get to $22 million in revenue and go away,” said Hoverman, whose firm is an international consultancy that provides services to education providers, policymakers and investors. percent per year through 2019, when 5 percent annual growth had been the norm before the 2008 recession.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The privilege of attending is costly, at $57,642 for the 2019-20 academic year. But in less than a decade, by 2025, students like Badalamente could expect to pay more than $100,000 per year, based on projections by The Hechinger Report using annual college cost growth rates from 2008 to 2018. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 23, 2022

What was the most-watched series on Netflix in 2019? According to Forbes magazine, who was the youngest self-made billionaire in 2019? How many medals did China win at the Beijing Olympics in 2008? The Coca-Cola Company created the soft drink Mr. Pibb to better compete with what other soft drinks? A: X Æ A-12.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

In 2019, Paradise was left with about 1,700 students, compared with 3,400 before the fire, but even with fewer students, it has been struggling to help kids cope with basic needs. The wildfire further destabilized families and left them fighting with insurance companies and hunting for jobs after their workplaces burned down.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Little did they know then that the first word in its name would become a fitting pun for the private equity firm’s consolidation of education companies. Last week, the firm announced what will be its 14th deal: Glynlyon , a digital curriculum company based in Chandler, Ariz. based digital curriculum providers.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2023

At private, nonprofit colleges and universities, where discounting is most prevalent, a whopping 57 percent of undergraduates received institutional aid in 2019-20, unchanged from the previous financial aid survey data in 2015-16. But the average tuition discount that each student received grew to $20,800 from $16,200 during this time period.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Norton & Company. 2008; Desrosiers, Curtiss, Vine, & Klemanski, 2014). Used with permission of the publisher, W. Skillful Responding: The Mindful Way of Dealing with Challenges.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2020

The company notched its first major K-12 customer in 2009, after Casap helped ink a deal with the state department of education in Oregon to deploy Google Apps for Education to its districts. In April 2020, the company claimed its G Suite for Education products were used by 120 million students and users across the world.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Electric companies don’t understand, ‘I need to go to class.’” Electric companies don’t understand, “I need to go to class.” Jones says he's particularly proud that the college has increased graduation rates among black students, going from from 5 to 22 percent from 2008 to 2016.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

FEBRUARY 24, 2019

I am not self-publishing: I have an actual publishing company I started in 2008. That was the reason I started a publishing company. It is far simpler than it seems, and if you feel like you have a book inside of you, self-publishing or starting your own publishing company are both totally valid options.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

On a muggy June morning in 2019, administrators from for-profit colleges took their seats in breakout rooms on the second floor of the Hyatt Regency in downtown New Orleans. When students enroll and can’t pay the full tuition right away, these companies help colleges offer payment options, such as installment plans or private loans.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. Miller’s budget for the 2019-20 school year was around $35 million, and Greene County Schools received $1.4 The district opened schools on Aug.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150