Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2022

This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.

EdTech 184

EdTech Chegg Udemy Company 184

Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

India has seen a massive expansion in the higher education sector – an almost four-fold increase in enrolments and institutions since 2001. Between 1996 and 2001, India and China had similar GERs. To address the skills gap in fresh hires, many companies are forced to invest in lengthy training programmes. Only 34.9%

Education 92

Education System Report Industry 92

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

based company by serving as executive chairman of its board of directors. This week the company’s stock was trading at $10 a share, down from $16.53 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.

Kaplan 40

Kaplan Dropout Comparison Learning 40

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. Even in more normal times, Newkirk’s overall strategy has limitations.

Education 217

Education Learning Software Knewton 217

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Many states either were not tracking them at all or were using widely disparate formulas that made state-by-state comparisons impossible. Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. NCLB also led states to overhaul another important metric: high school graduation rates.

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

Technology 58

Technology Kaplan Education Company 58

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

A study by George Washington University’s Center on Education Policy found that between 2001 and 2007, 36 percent of districts decreased elementary classroom time spent on social studies, including civics – a drop that most affected underfunded schools serving working-class, poor, rural, and inner-city kids.

Technology 71

Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71