Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. The number one thing that stood out for me is the TPG/Rise investment in EverFi,” says Jason Palmer, a general partner at New Markets Venture Fund, referring to the private equity group that led EverFi’s round. The bull is back—or is it?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Earlier this year, the global consulting firm McKinsey & Company released the report “ The Future of Work in Black America ,” on the potential impacts of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies and automation on specific racial groups — and it spells gloom and doom for African Americans. workforce in all industries since 2001.

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Edsurge

JULY 9, 2018

A company called UniversityNow—which attracted more than $40 million in venture backing and ran an experimental for-profit college—has been sold to the nonprofit National University system, which plans to use the company’s technology platform to deliver its online courses. They tried an employer-pay model—that didn’t work,” says Craig.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2016

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 is a private company that spun out of Texas A&M University’s Live Lab in late 2014. Norton & Company. Enter Textbook Publishers.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Blacks, Muslims and other underrepresented groups are in the same precarious position.

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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. Imagine students in a control group go from 50% on a pre-test to 60% on a post-test, whereas in the treatment group they go from 50% to 80%,” he explains.

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Edsurge

MARCH 17, 2017

“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. And," she adds, "just like speaking in front of a group, it has become easier as the class has progressed."

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 25, 2020

Farenga worked closely with one of the founders of the modern homeschooling movement, the late author and teacher John Holt, and published Growing Without Schooling magazine ( GWS ) from 1985 until it stopped in 2001. GWS was the nation’s first periodical about learning without going to school, started by Holt in 1977.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

To recognize and work through this sort of situation, McNulty recommends avoiding the “polarity stereotyping” of traditionalists and progressives, in which each group views the other as representing policies they disfavor while portraying their own views as having no downside. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Families are also aided by community groups like the Boston Public Library, which is lending Chromebooks and hot spot home kits to those who need them. Researchers say there’s likely been more progress – and some steps backward – since then, as they watch for the results of new federal programs established this spring.

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techlearning

JUNE 7, 2018

The partnership allows companies to benefit from opportunities to showcase their products and services, receive feedback and advice, and engage in thoughtful dialogue with educational leaders. “We GreyED Solutions is a small group of innovative and dedicated leaders who understand education technology as both end users and as developers.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2017

Specifically she worries that some companies have made their products a “black box” that professors and researchers can’t understand or control. Thille, an assistant professor of education at Stanford University's Graduate School of Education who previously worked in the private sector, stresses that she’s not against software companies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2018

It’s not alone: the parent company that owns the for-profit Argosy University and Art Institutes, Dream Center Education Holdings LLC, is “ discontinuing campus-based programs ” at seven of its campuses in California. Internationally, the market shattered its own funding record, with 813 different companies landing a total of $9.52

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edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

This edWebinar was hosted by SETDA and sponsored by Education Networks of America (ENA) , Kajeet , Mobile Beacon , and Parana River Group. He previously managed UConn’s Network Engineering and Data Center Operations teams, having started his career there as a junior network technician in the summer of 2001. About the Presenters.

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Learning with 'e's

JUNE 20, 2012

Although none of these preclude a social element of learning such as collaboration or group discussion, individual constructivism tends to rely on the ability of the learner to be an autonomous and independent self-learner. 2001) David A. It flows clockwise and is both iterative and cyclical. and deFreitas, S. Unported License.

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EdTechSandyK

SEPTEMBER 11, 2011

Bush, Address to the Nation , September 11, 2001 Ten years after the words above were first spoken, they have been proven true over and over again in large and small ways. I observed similar groups around us at the restaurant, and later as I stopped at Starbucks for a coffee. But they have failed. Our country is strong.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Reid emphasized the importance of listening and grounding equity work in the voices of the students and other community members, and also making sure achieving educational and racial justice is a process of removing barriers for all students, rather than taking something from one group and giving it to another.

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2017

A yellow school bus unloads a group of eager young campers, ready to meet their counselors and settle in for some summer camp fun. Gardner hired a group of teachers with live role-play experience and launched a series of day and overnight camps that operate with what she terms “story-based education.”.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. The first group of tutors was placed in Title I middle schools, in which low-income families make up at least 40 percent of enrollment.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Indiana’s foster care intake has more than doubled since 2001 , the sharpest increase in the nation. That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company. In Indiana, where Tessa lives, the situation is especially dire.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Civil rights groups and organizations working on behalf of underserved students, however, have been less than enthusiastic. Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. It also seeks to de-emphasize test scores, although students will continue to be tested annually in most grades.

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Education Policies Learning Report 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

After World War II broke out, Lawrence Holt, the father of one of Hahn’s students and a partner in a shipping company, noticed that many young sailors were dying after their ships were torpedoed, while older seamen were able to hang on. In 1933, Hahn fled Nazi Germany and opened a boarding school in an old estate near the Scottish coast.

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Common Core Elementary Meeting Course 40

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

And numerous studies point to the benefits of diverse organizational leadership, including one by the consulting firm McKinsey showing that companies with diverse boards performed better than those with mostly white men on their boards. (That’s important because black students have been underrepresented in gifted programs for decades.)

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

schools, Thorndike Press from Gale, part of Cengage Group, has released its first-ever collection of youth large print books in Spanish. Thorndike will showcase its Spanish youth large print titles at the Public Library Association (PLA) conference, April 3-5 in Columbus, OH at Gale booth #2001.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2017

We broke them across class groupings into science and social studies and English and math, and… Vicki: I had a technology group. And we did the science group who canoed the river, did water testing and biology. We had the history group who did a dig. The English group wrote poetry on the river and did photography.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. He suggested that people stored memories in packages that were concerned with event groupings smaller than “restaurant.”

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Edsurge

MAY 21, 2019

But when it comes to demonstrating that products “work,” too many companies fall back on testimonials. In fact, we’d argue that the best way to ramp and grow a company is to create a compelling portfolio of efficacy. Here’s a simplified version of how it works: Group A gets a placebo; Group B gets the experimental drug.

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EdTech Company Outcomes Study 138

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

That means that students have tutoring sessions at least three times a week, working one-to-one with tutors or in very small groups with tutors using clear lesson plans, not just helping with homework. Larger groups are more economical and reach more students. Many schools embraced this sort of frequent tutoring.

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Data Company Report Elementary 96

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Sesame Ventures, Sesame Workshop’s new investment arm, will provide portfolio companies with access to Sesame Workshop’s staff, research, and decades of child development and expertise, the company said. Established in 1997, Apple acquired the PowerSchool platform in 2001. operator of the Koolearn.com online education platform.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

Electronic Village Online (EVO) has developed as a community of practice that in 2001 facilitated a program of online discussions and workshops that have been held every year since then each January-February. Kimm will share resources and show participants how to join a community of educators ready to take action.

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Secondary Conference Survey STEM 73

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2017

companies to plant roots in Mexico, where lower wages and loose regulations have allured manufacturers for years. the Washington Post reported on the tech boom south of the border, with major global companies like IBM, Oracle and Intel setting up shop in Guadalajara, also known as country’s “Digital Creative City.”. In the U.S.,

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Company Training Study Trends 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, Vaughn adopted a newborn named Daniel in 2001 and, later, his biological younger brother, Jacob. Morales added that education companies made a few services that worked for his students free this spring, but that’s no longer the case.

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Education Advocacy Policies System 145

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 9, 2021

There’s hardly any sign of the college itself in its promotional video, which instead follows a group of happy students as they make their way around the famous landmarks nearby. Doing that required leveraging another corner of the favorably situated campus, which Emmanuel leased to the pharmaceutical company Merck & Co.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Well-financed special interest groups have inundated the public with salesmen disguised as advocates, who won’t take no for an answer. Anyone who dares read the fine print is branded an enemy of change. That’s why now – more than ever – we need media to read the fine print and help the public make decisions for themselves.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

A graduate of Detroit Public Schools and the first in her family to earn a bachelor’s degree, Vaughn adopted a newborn named Daniel in 2001 and, later, his biological younger brother, Jacob. Morales added that education companies made a few services that worked for his students free this spring, but that’s no longer the case.

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Education Advocacy System Policies 49

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

To date, Stephen’s work has been featured by Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, TNT, Disney, Discovery TV, NPR, Teach Middle East, The Gulf National, and countless others. Roger Schank Chairman and CEO, Socratic Arts Roger Schank.

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