Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. Yet market uncertainty in 2016, fueled in part by global political instability and China’s slowdown—has dampened investors’ eagerness across all industries. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 113

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

In 2016, Lindsay Unified, a school district in California’s Central Valley, asked the city of Lindsay if the district could locate antennae on the community’s tallest buildings to expand its own network in order to provide free community Wi-Fi. The role of technology. Credit: Courtesy Lindsay Unified School District. Does it work?

Online Learning 133

Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 133

Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2017

Rethinking Success in a Supportive Climate As a first step, Sanborn ditched its traditional, letter-based grading system and instead adopted a set of rubrics that reflect a student’s competency on state and district academic standards. The rubrics use descriptors such as: limited, in-progress, meeting and exceeding.

Assessment 76

Assessment Elementary System Academic Standards 76

The Hechinger Report

MAY 21, 2016

April 27, 2016 Photo: By Michael Clevenger, the Courier-Journal. Most educators agree the Common Core standards are rigorous enough that students who meet these guidelines will be adequately prepared to pursue a career or a college degree after they graduate from the public school system. But we do.”. ” An issue of resources.

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Common Core Education Tablets Academic Standards 55

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. Also, the district started Colorado’s first Pathways in Technology Early College High School last year. LONGMONT, Colo. —

STEM 103

STEM Report Robotics Company 103

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

states adopted new, more demanding academic standards in the 2010s, and there have been widespread reports about the difficulties in changing instruction in the classroom. More than 40 states embraced the “Common Core” while additional states adopted similar standards.). Policy changes may play a role too.

Education 111

Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 111

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. For over ten years, districts across the U.S. educational policy: College and Career Readiness. Blended Learning.

Policies 40

Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

A growing corps of entrepreneurs, supported by record-setting investments in education, are creating new technologies, experimenting with business models, and living their own bouts of euphoria and terror. I didn’t fully grok it until I took over Amplify’s sales team in late 2016. The intervention program aligns with the core.

Instructional Materials 136

Instructional Materials Case Study Assessment Company 136

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

He had the money, at least $13 million raised by July 2016. Esther Wojcicki, the esteemed journalism teacher at Palo Alto High School, joined in 2016 as the company’s chief learning officer. In the agreement with Clark County School District, nine middle schools agreed to the Planet3 pilot program from August 2016 to May 2017.

Education 77

Education Company Chegg Pearson 77

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

There are at least two truisms when it comes to education technology: 1. That gung-ho initiative is something that Mark Racine, director of technology at Boston Public Schools, applauds. In early 2016, it launched Co-Pilot to give schools free 30-day trials of edtech software built by other companies.

EdTech 117

EdTech Libraries Software Company 117

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2020

From 1998 to 2010, the time spent on nonacademic subjects in kindergarten, including free play, decreased in favor of more time on academic subjects, such as conventional spelling and writing simple equations, a 2016 study found. Related: Opinion: Kindergarten is more than preparation for first grade, and we need to take it back.

Common Core 145

Common Core Report Elementary Study 145

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2018

They are roughly half of the students enrolled at Longview’s specialized elementary school, which has higher academic standards. Longview ISD built eight schools, renovated three others and upgraded technology across the district. And they are more likely to take classes and tests meant to prepare them for college.

Policies 59

Policies Data Elementary Academic Standards 59

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

As someone who has taught high school history, led a school district, and researched the history of school reform along with the use of educational technologies over the past half-century, I found little that startled me in 2017 (with the exception for one event noted below). Differentiating between the two is crucial.

Technology 78

Technology Policies Education Academic Standards 78

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

New York’s Pathways in Technology Early College High Schools, or P-TECH schools, offer students a high school diploma and an associate’s degree upon completion of coursework. Between September 2016 and June 2017, the number of licensed work-based learning coordinators in Vermont increased from 38 to 53. It was an eye-opening thing.”

Classroom 90

Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

The new policy stands to degrade academic standards and exclude students based on race, she argued, calling it “a backdoor attempt to dismantle the exam school system altogether.” ” “Covid is a fake cover story for those who want to kill the exam.”

Policies 124

Policies Report Groups System 124

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

As times have changed, technology has advanced, and student needs have evolved—so, too, has the role of the librarian. What are the emerging technologies in a library? Translation technologies can be included for students and parents whose native language is not English. What are the new trends in libraries?

Libraries 98

Libraries Social Media Handbook eBook 98

The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2016

The new language supports the rights of parents to opt their children out of standardized tests, demand more oversight of charters and oppose evaluating teachers using their students’ standardized test scores.

Education 40

Education Policies Common Core Academic Standards 40