Kitaboo on EdTech

JUNE 13, 2019

According to NBC’s review of the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) data, textbook prices have risen over 3 times the rate of inflation from January 1977 to June 2015, a whopping 1,041% increase. But these are secondary causes. Now post-secondary tuition fee provides more revenue than public appropriations.

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Technology eBook Classroom OER 80

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

But after the 2008 recession, local budget cuts forced class sizes to increase again, bumping the pupil-teacher ratio up to 16.1 in 2014, the most recent federal data available. Pupil-teacher ratios declined from 22.3 in 1970 to 17.9 in 1985 and dropped to a low of 15.3

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 28, 2018

While this blog is based on verifiable data, some readers may be unhappy with my interpretation. He asserts that the Chinese hacked the both the Obama and McCain campaigns in the 2008 election cycle. Digital Citizenship with Social Media: Participatory Practices of Teaching and Learning in Secondary Education. AuthorHouse.

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edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

Setting the Course for Secondary Students. Data use is another key aspect of teaching secondary students online, as it shows what is working and what needs to be changed. The last data point can identify areas where further clarification or modeling is needed. Learn more at att.com/aspire.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

TurnItIn became a huge business, bought and sold several times over by private equity firms since 2008: first by Warburg Pincus, then by GIC, and then, in 2014, by Insight Partners — the price tag for that sale: $754 million. These proctoring tools gather and analyze far more data than just a student's words, than their responses on an exam.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

And participants are showing that gameplay is serious business: data from BMCC classes suggests that when students have fun learning they appear to have more meaningful learning experiences. The network links educators across disciplines who are interested in using games and other forms of interactive teaching to improve student success.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2017

In 2008, the Holly Square Shopping Center in northeast Denver was firebombed with molotov cocktails in gang-related arson. Valor only runs secondary schools so we worked with its leadership team to adopt their work for our younger students. Five Most Critical Changes We Made. Teacher Roles. Physical Space.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2016

Between 2008 and 2012, the same survey found job satisfaction among principals decreased nine percentage points, from 68 percent to 59 percent. A group of secondary network superintendents debrief after a visit to a classroom at a middle school in Oakland. Photo: Jackie Mader. Training the trainers. Aquino nodded. “Be

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Training How To Survey Academic Standards 76

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 9, 2018

Improvement in post secondary education will require converting teaching from a solo sport to a community-based research activity. Here’s what we’re doing this fall: We have analyzed data from Spring 2018 to empirically determine which learning outcomes students struggled with the most in five Waymaker courses. Simon , 1986).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015, the most recent time period measured in federal data. Since 2008, average tuition increased from $4,700 to $8,400. He thinks a needs-based aid program is a great idea. “If

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MIND Research Institute

DECEMBER 19, 2019

The data that we used to hold on to as teachers, the kids now know and own. Since 2008, our organization has sponsored more than 1,300 school leaders from Texas to attend week-long summer institutes @hgse. The Texas Education Agency is the state agency that oversees primary and secondary public education in the state of Texas.

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Twitter Education STEM Policies 80

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

In particular, he noted, the Say Yes provision to share student data went against the closed-shop mentality of the superintendent’s office. One of the more difficult things for us to give up,” said Keresztes, “was our student data. Are our students completing post-secondary education? Are their kids going to college?

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Southern New Hampshire University used to be unknown outside New England but it’s quickly grown since the 2008 recession to become a national online degree giant with more than 130,000 students. When a behemoth like that moves into Pennsylvania looking to grab market share, analysts pay attention.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2017

Did I read somewhere that WGU hasn’t raised tuition since 2008? There are corporations that have large bodies of employees who need access to a post-secondary education, and they need to do so in an affordable, high-quality way. Nine years. We haven’t raised our tuition, it’s been the same rate in that time period.

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Outcomes E-rate Accessibility Course 81

Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Category One: Data Transmission Services and/or Internet Access. This category covers the services necessary to support broadband connectivity in schools and libraries, including data links that connect multiple points, services used to connect eligible locations to the internet, and services that provide basic conduit access to the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 14, 2019

With people of color expected to make up a quarter of the state’s population by 2035, these gaps represent an economic threat to Minnesota; unless more residents get to and through college, there won’t be enough qualified workers to fill the jobs that require a post-secondary degree or certificate. “[O]ur

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Dropout Secondary Course Report 77

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2020

It’s the first time this kind of data has been compiled and analyzed nationally, and some of the spending gaps are extreme. Hechinger’s analysis of state and local spending by school included nearly 700 districts (those with 15 or more schools) from 40 states that made the data available. But he’s not surprised. That’s a problem.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

When Hallowell tried to extend proficiency-based education to its high school in 2008, parents put up a fight, saying the change would make it harder for their children to compete for scholarships and admission to selective schools, according to a case study published by the state Department of Education.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 18, 2018

This new role for educators is a direct outcome of the data-driven classroom and the quest for accountability. While teachers may understand the need to collect the information, they resent inputting the same data over and over again in every learning management system, educational application, and state and federal accountability report.

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Data Report OER Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

The last time schools were fully funded, in 2008, the state spent roughly $2.56 billion on elementary and secondary education. Census data. Related: “Education costs money,” says state superintendent in Mississippi. As in most states, school funding in Mississippi has not yet returned to pre-recession levels.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

AUGUST 8, 2021

Secondary teachers, you are going to especially love this, as I’ve got a bunch of high school teachers sharing ideas. While I don’t think folks who teach younger students will feel in any way left out this season, I do think secondary teachers are going to be especially seen and heard. Teaching is very different.

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Secondary System Meeting Elementary 59

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Schank agreed and he modified his theory in a way that accounted for the Stanford data and his new concerns about learning. This accounted for the psychologist’s data and enabled Schank to begin to build knowledge into the computer in such way that learning could take place. They argued that Schank’s scripts didn’t explain this.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

The proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with postsecondary credentials nationwide has been rising, up from 38 percent to 45 percent since 2008, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks this. The figure is through 2018, the most recent year for which this data is available.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2016

Apparently, so do most parents, 94 percent of whom take the government up on its offer of free education starting at age 3, according to government data. The study in question, called Effective Pre-school, Primary and Secondary Education (EPPSE), tracked 3,000 children from the mid-1990s through 2008. Photo: Lillian Mongeau.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

More effectively reporting data that it already collects and collecting better data on cost, quality and value would provide a number of benefits. Private firms could use data to come up with rankings and ratings to reflect the unique preferences of different students.

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

He said that the secondary market has been bad for students as well as for the publishers, describing used books with highlighting marks from previous owners as “subpar offerings.” “We Who Owns Student Data? “It’s going to be a journey, and it’s a long path that we’ve been going along with students to earn back that trust.”

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Pearson OER Course Accessibility 112

The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

However, the latest data from the federal government, covering the 2014-15 school year, still shows an advantage to the wealthy across the nation’s public elementary, middle and high schools. Click on any state to see student spending data. Historically, the decentralized U.S. That has changed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2016

Three of five states that have most reduced their funding per public college and university student from 2008 to 2016 are southern, according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities , a Washington D.C.-based Related: Government data single out schools where low-income students fare worst. based nonpartisan research institute.

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Education Industry Report Policies 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

But she wasn’t sure how she’d make it out of New Orleans until 2008, when she met a skinny white guy from Washington, D.C. By 2008, education reformers had opened charters in Texas and New York with similar “college for all” promises. Ben Marcovitz was unlike anyone Williams knew. Statistics are only true until someone bucks them.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2018

The 2008 recession may seem like a long time ago, hitting before Barack Obama began his presidency, but public elementary, middle and high schools around the country are still feeling the pinch from it. National Center for Education Statistics, Revenues and Expenditures for Public Elementary and Secondary Education: School Year 2014–15.

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Elementary Report Policies Secondary 106

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2019

. Despite the gridlock that has become synonymous with the nation’s capital, in 2008 Washington, D.C., Early childhood teachers require the same support and rigor in programmatic focus, differentiation and access that their primary and secondary colleagues receive. enacted something groundbreaking.

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Training Secondary Accessibility Analysis 89

Educator Innovator

JUNE 6, 2016

Letters to the Next President (L2P) began as an activity sponsored by the National Writing Project and Google during the 2008 presidential election. Students also discover that multiple groups with differing views might use the same statistics, spinning data to support their argument.

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Secondary Strategy Social Media Analysis 51

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Since 2008, it has spent almost $60 million to hire an additional 270 counselors and provide professional development training at 365 low-income middle and high schools throughout the state, via grants from the Colorado School Counselor Corps. So far, the results of Colorado’s commitment to counseling are promising.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 13, 2019

Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many. Meanwhile, black and Hispanic students make up the fastest-growing proportion of Iowa primary and secondary school students , up from 13 percent in 2005 to 21 percent today. “We Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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Robert Talbert, Ph.D.

DECEMBER 21, 2022

I've never stopped thinking that I can help higher education faculty with these struggles by sharing what I've experienced and learned since 2008, when I discovered GTD and my life and career were transformed by it. Grading for Growth and Intentional Academia are secondary hubs -- long-form writing that has a special place.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 2, 2019

The average tuition for a K-12 private day school for the 2008-09 school year was approximately $17,000, according to data collected by the National Association of Independent Schools (NAIS), a membership organization that consistently puts out enrollment reports on the sector. Tuition is getting out of control.

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