EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Many science and engineering ideas come to life through the devices we hold in our hands, but cutting-edge technologies aren’t easily available to every young person.”. When not in the office, Eli is busy scanning the web for the latest podcasts or stepping into the boxing ring for a few rounds. education system.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 4, 2019

Assessments can be used to make programs more cost-effective, improve implementation, enable replication elsewhere in the district and justify more funding to administrators. . Instructional cost: “All three of my school districts as a superintendent saved significant money by using technology,” said Baule.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

The news, first reported by The Wall Street Journal , would create the second-biggest U.S. The new company will retain the McGraw Hill name, but will be led by Michael Hansen, currently the CEO of Cengage. Like other established textbook publishers, both companies have reoriented their businesses around digital offerings.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Most new jobholders never had to think about costs vs. revenue, instead relied on parents to keep a roof over their head, heat and AC turned on, and gas in the car (and a car in the driveway). The good news is: Half of the nation’s schools require a financial literacy course. The bad news is it’s not mandatory.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2022

These companies, which help colleges set up online programs and often help finance them as well in exchange for a cut of revenues, have lately seen a barrage of bad news. The associated news provided by 2U late last week alongside its earnings was no exception. The Pivot What 2U announced was both a pivot and an acceleration.

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EdTech Magazine

JANUARY 31, 2019

Across industries, hyperconvergence has seen a marked increase as IT managers look for ways to juggle network speed and security with low infrastructure costs. . We cut costs by 75 percent and don’t need to babysit storage anymore,” said Hoffman. Hyperconverged infrastructure may be the answer. by Eli Zimmerman.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

This anxiety, along with the cost and other issues, is among the many things discouraging growing numbers of students from even applying to college. This clear-cut, straightforward message didn’t come from academics or administrators, policymakers or politicians. That was a very stressful thing for me.”

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2020

The stigma against job candidates with criminal records is so strong that, even with the skills they may have learned behind bars, many find it easier to start a business than get hired by one, said Marc Howard, a professor of government and law who helped start Georgetown University’s Pivot entrepreneurship program last year.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Steep drops in state revenue are forcing school boards to cut costs, and this tends to harm students in poorer and largely minority schools the most. Looking back at the 2008 recession, we know that school budget cuts had the effect of widening achievement gaps for both low-income students and students of color.

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Edsurge

JULY 15, 2019

The biggest education company in the world is moving away from a production model that has been one of the main drivers in the rising cost of textbooks. Public Interest Research Group, each new edition of a textbook cost 12 percent more than the previous one. But the company is not cutting the cord with print. “We

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Discovery Education

MAY 14, 2023

Check out what’s trending in EdTech news! From Teacher Appreciation Week to shifting technologies, it’s a busy time in education. Here’s some recent news on the Tech in EdTech! In this commentary, he points out that one proposal would cut education funding by 22%, affecting low-income students. from 2023 to 2030.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

This story also appeared in NBC News. It absolutely hasn’t,” his successor, Matthew Wilson, told the board in April during a contentious meeting to plan deep cuts after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the campus. Like many businesses, universities and colleges are struggling with a crisis that was not of their own making.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2020

ABC News report on ridesharing for kids Food Deliveries and Virtual Tutors In response to significant reduction in the volume of rides, rideshare for children companies have tested and implemented new ways to deploy their drivers. Whether meal delivery continues as a new part of Z?m’s The schools will need us now more than ever.”

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 4, 2018

billion of them in use in 2017 — from TVs, cars and coffee makers at home to security cameras, lighting systems and thermostats at businesses and schools. SIGN UP : Get more news from the EdTech newsletter in your inbox every two weeks! Energy-saving IoT applications are cutting costs as well as increasing student comfort.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

They’re bracing for budget cuts and other financial troubles. Let’s talk about the upside to the pandemic in our business,” CEO Nathaniel Davis said on the company’s earnings call in April. This moment will permanently change how the general public, school districts and regulators think about our business,” Davis said.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

The dean’s list student ended up a college dropout, a gay 20-something cut off from his parents after coming out, and working at a UPS Store in a job he described as “retail drudgery” while running up credit card debt and stringing out his college loans. Look, we’re in the risk business,” Gainer said. Aon Center in Chicago.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 24, 2023

Browne received a welcome influx of funds: nearly $83,000 to help keep her business open. Experts warn that programs will be forced to make cuts or shut down. But, as is the case nationwide, the reimbursement amount Browne gets per child is far less than the cost of providing care. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Summer and transitioning to a new day-to-day computer (Linux laptop). Those are my excuses for combining the last two weeks of news clips into one ‘best of’ roundup. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition). Not that I’ve been twiddling my thumbs exactly.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 19, 2020

This story also appeared in NBC News. The campuses have become heavily reliant on dollars from higher and higher tuitions just as the Midwest faces a demographic dive and continued cuts in state funding. Some faculty members say that budget cuts have led to a lowering of the university’s academic reputation.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

Department of Education, for reasons including cost and access. An interview will still come at the end of that process, “but this is a way to cut 10,000 people to 1,000 and then figure out how to sort them,” said Jack Buckley, president and chief scientist at the testing technology startup Imbellus. There haven’t been mis-hires.”

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 18, 2020

To accommodate busy schedules, Ohio students were offered online tutoring instead of in-person tutoring on campus. Another tweak from the New York model, where students were given free subway passes, was to give Ohio students gift cards for gas or groceries. Two-thirds of the Ohio students worked an average of 30 hours a week.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 23, 2021

. — Ingrid Dominguez can’t remember why, when she was applying to college, she decided she would major in business. Senior year in high school was just, like, ‘You have to decide what you want to do right now.’ ” And picking business “is what everybody else was doing.”. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. “I I do get it.

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Edsurge

APRIL 16, 2019

The announcement, from The Minerva Project, enters a longstanding debate about whether online education can drastically cut the cost of education by reducing the number of instructors needed to teach. You may need to have so many TAs that the cost of TAs may exceed the cost of the professor,” he says.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2020

Students are choosing disciplines like business, economics and computer science – subjects they believe are better suited to the modern job market. After the Great Recession hit in 2007, the number of business majors nationwide went, up while enrollment for humanities majors dropped. This story also appeared in American Public Media.

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eSchool News

MAY 26, 2022

NEW YORK, NY (MAY 26, 2022 ) – Parallel Learning (Parallel)—the digital health platform that provides a new way to test, diagnose, and empower students with learning and thinking differences—today announced $20M in Series A funding and an expansion to its suite of teletherapy services.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2019

It’s expanding graduate programs and providing custom education for area businesses, increasing income from those sources by 46 percent. And it’s begun a cost analysis of its smallest academic departments, with as few as 11 candidates for degrees apiece but as many as three full-time professors. “It’s

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

And with all this amazing technology touching every part of our lives, our children are still required by the state to attend a government-funded on-location education system for up to 12 years at a cost of $700 Billion. In those positions, I learned much about both the strengths and weaknesses of the education business. Absolutely.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

“You get an Adrian degree, you have an Adrian experience, you play your sport,” said Ryan Boyd, another Adrian student who through course sharing was able to add a minor in computer science to his business management major. A growing number of intermediaries that provide the technology needed to connect the partners often also take a cut.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 27, 2023

That included direct spending by students, faculty, staff and visitors, plus income earned by graduates who stayed in the area to work or start businesses. And there’s a greater scrutiny placed on higher education as a business model,” with enrollments at many colleges declining as costs rise.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2017

University enrollment continued to decline in the fall for the sixth straight year, adding more bad news to the woes of financially stretched colleges and universities, new figures show. A new report shows that university and college enrollment declined this fall for the sixth straight year. There are more than 2.6

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Willamette University in Oregon acquired a California theological seminary — and, with it, more enrollment and new programs that can help the school lower per-student costs and improve its competitive advantage. Business was flagging. This is a business,” Thorsett said. We have to build a model that’s sustainable.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

As LightSail Education charts a new course, the New York City-based developer of K-12 literacy software has had to make some difficult, unpleasant decisions over the holidays, EdSurge has learned. The cuts affected staff and senior-level directors alike. LightSail was hardly alone in building a digital literacy platform.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Higher-education institutions increasingly are pooling their resources to cut costs. ATLANTA — A business major at Clark Atlanta University, Delaina Mims said she spends at least eight hours a day at the Robert W. Now that many are seeing deep budget cuts, they’re seeing sharing resources differently.”. Woodruff Library.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This decade has not been kind to traditional textbook publishers, as many have struggled to transition their business from print to digital. Pearson has been cutting things and retrenching a bit. So what’s been some of the recent news coming from your team? This was not was an across the board, “let’s just cut costs” move.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2020

She currently works a clerical job for a government agency and drives cabs intermittently, while trying to launch a holistic wellness business. Assistance can take many forms, such as laundry services, tutoring and the waiving of ACT costs and graduation fees. Just busy at home,” Mikaela said, with a shrug. Always moving.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2017

Everybody understands the demographics and, more than any time I’ve seen, that it cannot be business as usual.”. That’s up from an average of 38 cents a decade ago — good news for students and their families, but a dangerous trend for colleges whose annual increases in revenue are failing even to keep pace with inflation.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Whitmore Lake Road is a two-lane stretch of blacktop cutting through wide fields and dense woods. Jobs were cut at nearby auto plants. Related: How much would it cost to get all students up to average? The state cuts to education funding began long before the recession, and districts have yet to recover, he added.

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