Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

That approach worked for Spotify, a company in the portfolio of growth equity firm TCV , where Marshall is a general partner. And now, it’s attracted TCV to an education technology company. In the past 12 months, the company has grown its staff size by 50 percent, to 200 employees at the end of 2018.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. In a 2018 survey of college students, the trade publication Library Journal found that 75 percent say that reading print books is easier than e-books.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers. In the U.S.,

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techlearning

JUNE 26, 2018

JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies. NASHVILLE, TENN. ZMC is currently investing out of ZMC II, L.P.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. The company has raised no outside capital since its start.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 11, 2018

And yet, reliable broadband is far from guaranteed in this region of towering plateaus, sagebrush valleys and steep canyons. According to an April 2018 Department of Education report, 18 percent of 5- to 17-year old students in “remote rural” districts have no broadband access at home.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. SIIA also created an “incubator” program in 2006 to support early-stage education companies, long before the idea became popular in the edtech industry. billion in U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Once upon a time, the music industry meant gramophones, Victrolas and record players, and large companies called labels controlled what got recorded, the talent that recorded it and the sale of the recordings. Newspaper circulation dropped by nearly half between 2005 and 2018, from 53.3 million to 28.5 billion to $14.3

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Since 2018, she has been a partner at Learn Capital, a venture capital fund focused on the global education sector. But computing power, device adoption, pervasive broadband and exponentially networked collaboration platforms of the past decade have already moved us to a world of information abundance.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. Did companies fully deliver on their ConnectED promises? corporations, from Apple to Adobe.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2020

According to 2018 study by the U.S. A 2018 meta-analysis found that summer interventions are likely most effective for improving outcomes for low-income students and narrowing the achievement gap between students who are poor and those who are not. More recent studies show that the summer is a pivotal period for student learning.

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techlearning

JULY 24, 2018

NASHVILLE, Tennessee (July 24, 2018) – Education Networks of America® (ENA) announces that CatchOn, Inc. , a software as a service tool that delivers essential data about ed tech usage, was named a winner of Tech & Learning’s ISTE 2018 Best of Show Awards.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

Rather, it's centered in the popular E-Rate program, which has provided billions of dollars in broadband discounts and infrastructure upgrades to schools and libraries. The Universal Service Funds refer to the telecom fees collected by USAC, the Universal Service Administrative Company, that pay for E-Rate. schools. “If

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The Innovative Educator

JUNE 24, 2019

It didn't take long for her to figure that out and then share her powerful story on the ISTE stage in 2018. School bus wifi In communities where students spend a lot of time on a bus, consider using a company like Kajeet to provide internet access during the commute. You can check it out in the video below.

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techlearning

JULY 17, 2018

SEATTLE, July 17, 2018 -- RealNetworks, Inc. School safety has become one of the top national issues in the United States in 2018," said Rob Glaser, chairman and CEO of RealNetworks. "We Wyoming is unique in its commitment to working with new innovations and America's leading technology companies," said Wyoming Governor Matt Mead.

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Education Superhighway

MAY 13, 2016

And to not only seamlessly administer online tests but also enable digital learning in the classroom, schools need robust broadband. In fact, the FCC recommends that school districts provide a minimum of 100 kbps per student in bandwidth today and 1 Mbps per student by 2018. According to our data, however, nearly 12% of U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

cities and states, 2018 marked the wettest year on record. education technology companies raised $1.45 The funding total in 2018 also eclipsed the $1.2 There’s a notable difference between 2018 and 2015, however. In 2015 there were 165 deals, versus just 112 in 2018. For 2018, we tallied a total of $1.45

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Tagged on: July 21, 2017 A complex web of factors influence children’s commercial media literacy | LSE Business Review → If they don’t know an ad from information, how can they grasp how companies use their personal data? ask Sonia Livingstone, Kjartan Ólafsson and George Maier.

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edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

SETDA’s latest research, Navigating the Digital Shift 2018: Broadening Student Learning Opportunities , highlights how state policies are supporting the transformation to digital learning. Contracts with publishing companies ensure equal availability and pricing for Idaho’s large population of rural schools.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

These commitments are connecting 20 million more students to next-generation broadband and wireless. This includes more than $2 billion in private-sector commitments.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Jena Draper is the founder and general manager at CatchOn, a company designed to support teaching and learning through the smarter use of data and technology. ENA delivers robust and reliable broadband, Wi-Fi/LAN, communication, and cloud services to K–12 schools, higher education institutions, and libraries across the nation.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

I believe 2018 is the year that this will start to become mainstream, to begin to impact many aspects of our lives in a truly ubiquitous and meaningful way.” Today, things are so advanced that there is unlimited growth potential with AI companies designed to support business like yours. The market has reacted at pace.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

More important, when educators can download and add digital resources on their own, they may be giving companies unintended access to private student information. ENA delivers robust and reliable broadband, Wi-Fi/LAN, communication, and cloud services to K–12 schools, higher education institutions, and libraries across the nation.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Kate has worked with the national Association for Rural & Small Libraries since early 2018 and became its first ever Executive Director at the beginning of this year. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

Kate has worked with the national Association for Rural & Small Libraries since early 2018 and became its first ever Executive Director at the beginning of this year. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Kate has worked with the national Association for Rural & Small Libraries since early 2018 and became its first ever Executive Director at the beginning of this year. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Kate has worked with the national Association for Rural & Small Libraries since early 2018 and became its first ever Executive Director at the beginning of this year. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 41

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Over lunch at the CNA company cafeteria, a handful of interns chatted with T J Pavlov, a psychology teacher who oversees ChiTech’s Real-World Learning program and regularly checks in at student worksites. In May 2015, the district extended ChiTech’s reprieve until 2018. Related: A school district is building a DIY broadband network.

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Edsurge

APRIL 4, 2019

Instead, EducationSuperHighway is sunsetting because, well, that’s what Marwell always intended it to do—once the organization reached its expressed goal of connecting 99 percent of K-12 students to high-speed broadband. In 2018, that number ticked up to 98 percent. So seven years ago, knowing little about school broadband, he dove in.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

2018 applications are still in process.) Anytime you implement a new system you are going to have challenges,” says Radha Sekar, the CEO of the Universal Service Administrative Company, or USAC, which built the EPC portal and administers the E-rate program for the FCC. Governors in Texas and Montana have issued similar complaints.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

However, this lag began to erode when the rise of cloud computing made it possible for edtech startups to flood the market with educational applications, the expansion of broadband internet gave those apps an easy distribution channel into campuses, and an increasing number and variety of mobile devices provided them an in-school abode.

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techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

Certiport and EC-Council will launch the EC-Council Associate Series certification exams, practice tests, and curriculum beginning in fall 2018 starting with the Ethical Hacking Associate (EHA) and Cyber Forensics Associate (CFA) exams. released several upgrades for the 2018 - 2019 school year. app, even on the go.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 23, 2018

Tue, 10/23/2018 - 09:46. Lear(R)n , the company behind the digital LearnPlatform, has recently released its second annual EdTech Top 40 list , which includes everything from assessment tools to operational platforms. . Q&A: Lea(R)n CEO Karl Rectanus on Lessons Learned From the Top 40 EdTech Tools. eli.zimmerman_9856.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. Competing with them could create political headaches.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

The New York Times notes it’s not just rural students who struggle with broadband access : “Why San Jose Kids Do Homework in Parking Lots.” is the new company of Andrew Ng , Coursera’s co-founder.) h/t @CarlySidey pic.twitter.com/BL8lDVLMA4 — Jules Suzdaltsev (@jules_su) November 12, 2018.

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