edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

Instead, a more innovative and agile approach is needed to help today’s wide range of students recover from the pandemic and achieve more equitable outcomes. From 2001-2003, he served as Vermont’s Education Commissioner. He is also a senior fellow at the International Center for Leadership in Education. Join the Community.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Four years later, the district was demanding a refund from Apple.

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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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Software Adaptive Learning Company Course 73

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.

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MindShift

APRIL 6, 2017

Guard Up opened a full-time facility in Burlington, Massachusetts, in 2001. The company offered weekly classes in fencing and swordsmanship for all ages, as well as story-based educational adventures. Guard Up then launched educational summer camps that eventually became the largest part of the company.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Passed in 2001, the No Child Left Behind Act was the centerpiece of President George W. Students at the lowest-performing schools were supposed to get free transportation to attend a higher-achieving school, and districts had to contract with private tutoring companies to provide what were known as “Supplemental Education Services.”

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

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. Researchers then study the outcomes. That approach was codified a year later when the U.S.

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EdTech Company Outcomes Study 130

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

Sesame Workshop: The creator of Sesame Street has partnered with Collaborative Fund to focus on early-stage startups in the areas of education technology, health and nutrition and social, cultural and family development, according to Sesame Workshop. Established in 1997, Apple acquired the PowerSchool platform in 2001.

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techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

Irvine, Lake Elsinore, and Santa Clara, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Centennial , CO (July 03, 2018) Illuminate Education , the company transforming K-12 instruction through education intelligence solutions, has merged with IO Education, SchoolCity, Alpine Achievement, and Key Data Systems (KDS). The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Education Industry Dropout 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Teachers and researchers are measuring student engagement in learning outcomes, not absences from school. Finally in 2001, the school leadership and the parents jointly engaged in a painful analysis that lead to a profound conclusion: If we don’t change, the results won’t change. Education results plummeted along with employment.

Education 60

Education Secondary Outcomes Chromebook 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Karen Blumberg Technology Integrator The School at Columbia University BIO : Karen Blumberg is an educational technologist at The School at Columbia University working with faculty and students to integrate technology academically, respectfully, and responsibly. Our students are children of technology and the web.

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Conference Education Pearson Technology 59

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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eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

A key conversation focuses on weighing its benefits versus risks, and many education institutions have been quick to implement bans on the technology altogether for fears of plagiarism in written works. As technology continues to evolve, the education industry has immense opportunities to harness these new applications.

Education 52

Education Industry Company Exercises 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 9, 2017

It’s the accountability side that is especially worrisome—accountability both for student outcomes and for the stewardship of public dollars. Eight board members are currently CEOs, seven have founded non-profits, and 11 have founded companies. Three recent investigations raise questions. Impressive, to be sure.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 16, 2020

He was lead advisor of the Program for Analysis of Educational Systems (PASEC) from 2001 to 2005, where he was in charge of implementing assessments and analyses of learning outcomes in primary schools in African French-speaking countries.

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