Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

2U 2008 2014 $665M (IPO) Archipelago Learning 2000 2012 $302M (acquired by PLATO Learning) Chegg 2005 2013 $830M (IPO) Connections Education 2001 2011 $400M (acquired by Pearson) HigherOne 2000 2012 $260M (acquired by Blackboard) Instructure 2008 2014 $487M (IPO) K12.com

EdTech 93

EdTech Chegg Kaplan Coursera 93

The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

Between 2001 and 2017, 339 public universities spent $32 billion in institutional aid on students who did not have financial need, according to a New America study. Is it to reward and provide opportunity for the few and the fortunate or is it actually to lift this generation up and leave them better off than the previous?”

Data 102

Data Report Trends Tools 102

Ask a Tech Teacher

OCTOBER 13, 2017

Hawkins, Pepler, and Craig, 2001 ). Center for Disease Control, 2014 ). Check these statistics (from Pacer.org ): One out of every four students (22%) report being bullied during the school year. National Center for Educational Statistics, 2015 ). 64 percent of children who were bullied did not report it. McCallion and Feder, 2013 ).

Digital Citizenship 124

Digital Citizenship How To Report Guidelines 124

Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2001: $450,000,000. Legislative Authorization: Title II, Part D (Sections 2401-2422) of the No Child Left Behind Act of 2001. Dear Colleague Letter: Resource Comparability , which emphases technology-related equity issues (October 2014). FY 2014 $0. FY 1998: $425,000,000. Enhancing Education Through Technology Program.

Policies 150

Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

The 2001 No Child Left Behind Act was premised on the theory that by setting high standards for all students and holding school systems and states accountable to reaching those standards, schools would improve. Without saying so outright, he’s addressing a major gap between rhetoric and reality over nearly two decades of education reform.

Education 143

Education Comparison System Social Media 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2017

Government Accountability Office found the percentage of all schools with racial or socio-economic isolation grew from 9 percent to 16 percent from 2001 to 2014. This kind of behavior helps explain why the U.S. Schools aren’t unbiased, apolitical institutions , or separate from the communities they serve.

Policies 78

Policies Academic Standards Groups Report 78

techlearning

OCTOBER 24, 2018

Although I have been a professor at Eliot Pearson since 2001, my own doctoral training is not as a developmentalist, but as a designer of technologies for children. For more information, see her 2014 TEDx talk, “Young programmers — think playgrounds, not playpens.” Bers co-founded the start-up KinderLab Robotics, Inc.

Pearson 41

Pearson Study Robotics STEM 41

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Philadelphia’s public schools were taken over by Pennsylvania in 2001, but test scores have dropped and the district has experienced debt. In 2014, The Hechinger Report analyzed test score data from five Mississippi districts that were under state control and had several years to show growth. Choose as many as you like. Weekly Update.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

Triseum is a private company that spun out of Texas A&M University’s Live Lab in late 2014. For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Triseum's ARTe: Macenas immerses students in art history.

Video 139

Video Game-Based Learning Company Survey 139

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

In 2014 K12 suffered a big blow when the 10,800-student Agora Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania ditched the private management company in favor of managing its own operations. From 1997-2001, he also served as president of the School Renaissance Institute, a subsidiary of Renaissance Learning focused on training, publishing, and research.

Kaplan 40

Kaplan Dropout Comparison Learning 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

When I left the classroom in 2014 after 14 years of teaching in the United States, it was for a variety of reasons. Primarily, though, I felt a need to address systemic issues plaguing public education, some stemming from legislative and other state mandates that constrained the learning of the immigrant students I worked with.

Policies 79

Policies Report Training System 79

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

Teaching students and teaching each other: The importance of peer learning for teachers. American Economic Journal: Applied Economics, 1(4), 85–108. (25) 25) Kraft, M. A., & Papay, J. Can professional environments in schools promote teacher development? Explaining heterogeneity in returns to teaching experience. M., & Strong, M.

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Policies Groups Elementary Study 236

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

The non-profit organization Mentor, which works to ensure that everyone “has the supportive relationships they need to grow and develop,” conducted a national survey in 2014 of youth aged 18 to 21 and found that one in three reported growing up without a mentor of any kind.

Company 106

Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 106

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2019

City Connects has been around since 2001, but has even earlier roots in a two-year partnership between Boston Public Schools and researchers at Boston College from diverse disciplines, including psychology and special education. The overall attendance rate has risen since City Connects began its work.

Meeting 119

Meeting Elementary Groups Report 119

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2017

Passage of the No Child Left Behind legislation in 2001 put into motion an accountability system that held school districts accountable for reading and mathematics proficiency. Districts acquiesced and moved resources away from the other essential parts of student learning. Try a new approach instead.

Classroom 80

Classroom Learning System Assessment 80

Learning with 'e's

JUNE 6, 2014

2001) From Andragogy to Heutagogy. Available online here (Retrieved 6 June, 2014). Teachers should consider that students'' personal technologies should not be banned from the classroom, but could instead be integrated into lessons and embedded as mind tools to extend and enrich the experience of learning. Reference Hase, S.

Comparison 63

Comparison Social Media Outcomes Study 63

Fractus Learning

APRIL 28, 2016

Bloom’s 2001 Taxonomy uses verbs and gerunds to convey the dynamic nature of thought. Over the years, Bloom’s Taxonomy has been revisited and in 2001, a revised A Taxonomy for Teaching, Learning, and Assessment ( Anderson ) was published. Resources for additional information: Armstrong, P. ” Bloom’s Taxonomy.

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Analysis Assessment Common Core Examples 40

edWeb.net

MAY 11, 2020

Ashley was awarded the Utah Coalition for Education Technology (UCET) Outstanding Young Educator of the Year in 2013, International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) Emerging Leader in 2013, and the United States Distance Learning Association (USDLA) silver medal for Best Practices in Distance Learning in 2014.

Education 54

Education Secondary Policies Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

MAY 17, 2016

Since 2001, Temple University’s four-year graduation rate has climbed from 20 percent to 44 percent and its six-year rate from 59 percent to 70 percent, which is 11 points higher than the national average. Temple has seen the proportion of its students who return for their sophomore year increase from 70 percent in 2001 to 82 percent in 2014.

Dropout 51

Dropout Trends Data Study 51

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2017

Gross, MM, MLS, JD, has served as President & CEO of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in Maryland since 2001. Gross President & CEO, Howard County Library System (Maryland) @valeriejgross Valerie J.

Libraries 42

Libraries Conference Study Blackboard 42

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 7, 2018

She is a 2014 “Best of State – Principal” winner and was named as one of Utah Business’s “30 Women to Watch.” DeLaina Tonks has been involved in education since 1991 and has been the director at Mountain Heights Academy, the top-rated digital school in Utah, since 2009.

OER 40

OER Tools E-rate Blackboard 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2017

We have not absorbed September 11, 2001 , nor the elections of 2008 or 2016. His most recent books are Innocent Ecstasy: How Christianity Gave America an Ethic of Sexual Pleasure (Oxford University Press, 2016) and American Civil Religion: What Americans Hold Sacred (Oxford University Press, 2014).

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Report Meeting Education 40

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 12, 2016

In 2001 we described the reinvention of the traditional high school as the “clarion call of our new century.” In 2014–15, Valor’s fifth graders outperformed those at 99 percent of other schools in Tennessee. Indeed, communities across the country are talking about how to reimagine high schools.

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Policies Report Meeting Examples 40

Wired Campus

OCTOBER 28, 2015

And 38 percent report that their institutions encourage faculty members to use open-resource content, compared with 33 percent in 2014. Mr. Green said that around 2000 or 2001 he started asking IT leaders to rank their priorities and that the top priority has been largely the same over a number of years. IT leaders’ No.

Report 28

Report Survey OER Education 28

MindShift

JULY 27, 2015

2014; Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Another nationwide study found that children under 12 years old have approximately two hours of free time during the day and that this decreases as they get older (Hofferth & Sandberg, 2001). Courtesy of Denise Pope. This holds true for kids of all ages and in all kinds of families.

Social Media 28

Social Media Outcomes Report Study 28

edWeb.net

JULY 15, 2018

He was also the recipient of the 2014 Outstanding Educator Award from the Elizabeth Forward Alumni Association. Dr. Rocco received his B.A. from Duquesne University and earned his Ed.D. from the University of Pittsburgh.

Digital Learning 40

Digital Learning Instructional Materials Learning Policies 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 28, 2017

Gross, MM, MLS, JD, has served as President & CEO of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in Maryland since 2001. Gross President & CEO, Howard County Library System (Maryland) @valeriejgross Valerie J.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference Study Blackboard 28

MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

In 2014, 61 million kids who should have been in elementary school were not in school. billion people born worldwide between 2001 and 2020 are the healthiest and the most educated. That’s the cutoff for extreme poverty. About 40 years ago, half of humanity lived on that amount. More kids are going to school. ” The 2.72

Exercises 45

Exercises Data Survey Elementary 45

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 26, 2017

Gross, MM, MLS, JD, has served as President & CEO of Howard County Library System (HCLS) in Maryland since 2001. Gross President & CEO, Howard County Library System (Maryland) @valeriejgross Valerie J.

Libraries 28

Libraries Conference Study Blackboard 28

Georgia Test Prep

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

The Georgia Milestones Assessment System was introduced in 2014-2015 to replace former state assessments which were setting lower standards for students. The Georgia Department of Education (GaDOE) is the authority for Georgia Milestones. History of GMAS.

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Assessment System Course Academic Standards 53

Mistakengoal.com

JULY 21, 2014

Below, I share some quotes from early-late 20th century sources that would be at home in an article, book, or blog post written in 2014. ” That quote comes from a 2001 Chronicle of Higher Education article but the thought has been expressed by many people. It is something we create. We must not confuse a tool with a goal.

MOOC 67

MOOC Conference Learning Analytics Facebook 67

Bryan Alexander

OCTOBER 2, 2015

As I noted with Interstellar (2014), this is a movie that’s unabashedly pro-space. That’s a nice balance, actually, giving us both types of science: low-rent, accessible, home experiment style, along with Big Science of the NASA and 2001 sort. Once back in our lives, we are meant to desire more space exploration.

Meeting 40

Meeting Accessibility Strategy Study 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 31, 2022

In 2001, the UC system moved to “holistic” admissions, looking at many factors beyond test scores and grades. More than 43 percent of white students admitted to Harvard between 2009 and 2014 fell into four preferential categories: athletes, legacies (the children of alumni), the children of big donors or faculty and staff children.

Policies 16

Policies Study Data System 16

MindShift

JANUARY 20, 2017

Another study found a relationship between young children’s construction skills (such as playing with jigsaw puzzles and blocks) and strong number sense and success in solving mathematical word problems (Nath & Szücs, 2014).

Pearson 28

Pearson STEM Training Study 28

Mistakengoal.com

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

danah boyd ‘s 2014 book It’s Complicated: The Social Lives of Networked Teens is a must-read in this area; it’s available for download for free (but please consider purchasing a copy – it’s worth it!).

Technology 71

Technology MOOC Industry Social Media 71

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

State spending on the University System of Georgia fell from more than $15,000 per student in 2001 to about $6,000 during the recession, adjusted for inflation, and has only climbed back to about $8,000, Suggs’ analyses found. “I During the 2013-2014 school year, USG institutions awarded $28.8 million in need-based aid.

Policies 61

Policies Report Study Data 61

eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2015

In 2014, students who participated in the computerized component of the program had 2 percentage point higher pass rates in math, English and reading than students who did not. Many wonder whether it will prove too expensive, widening the gap between schools that can and cannot afford it, but advocates say it doesn’t have to be costly.

Competency Based Learning 40

Competency Based Learning Learning Advocacy Training 40