Shake Up Learning

APRIL 26, 2022

While looking for a way to supplement his income, Doug took a summer job working with a friend of a friend who had begun an online school in 2001. He moved onto an early LMS which was a launching point for him to recognize his talent for helping edtech companies expand. How has the Pandemic Changed EdTech? – SULS0155.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 6, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. Smith assumed his role at Reading Horizons in October 2001 and since has overseen steady sales growth and a multitude of improvements to their line of products. By Kenna McHugh.

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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. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 11, 2018

My favorite one is one called [Galactic] Explorer , which is a solar system. It actually looks like you’re holding a spinning solar system in your hands. My favorite one is the one about the solar system. Your favorite thing is the solar system. Vicki: So here’s the question. Karen: Absolutely. Bio as submitted.

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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. Most teachers use the free version, but the company offers a more full-featured product that costs $65-per year.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

District leaders will need to have and communicate a clear, powerful vision about where the school system is headed in order to guide the way forward. As the disruptions and changes continue to unfold during 2021, he recommends using an adaptive system design to change the structures and collective mindsets within school districts.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

The company’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and through an online platform. After completing undergraduate school in 2001, I began my teaching career as a substitute teacher at various Oregon districts. What were two things that excited you about working with the company? About Inkeri Martin.

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100mentors

JANUARY 23, 2018

If companies don’t even ask for test scores & GPAs from candidates anymore, then why is our whole education system measured by the success in examinations still? Waterman, Schwartz, Goldbacher, Green, Miller, Philip, 2001 ). And, is this what is driving motivation & student engagement down?

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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

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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Edsurge

JUNE 21, 2017

PwC explains that the cost of DNA sequencing per genome has fallen from $96 million in 2001 to less than $6,000 in 2013. Perceiving newness as danger, it turns out, is hard-wired in our brain’s limbic system. In the US, it took 76 years for the telephone to reach half the population; the smartphone did it in less than 10 years.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

percent pay raise — but according to reporting by Education Week, “they also want class-size reductions, changes to the teacher-evaluation system, and more school nurses, librarians, and restorative-justice advisors.”. These systems prohibit states from distributing tax dollars where there is greater need.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

She was appointed by the Clinton administration’s Secretary of Education Richard Riley in 1997 and reappointed by him in 2001. with the publication of the death and life of the great American school system: how testing and choice are undermining education, she became one of the most outspoken critics of ideas she once championed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

“We don’t have a plan, I think, that’s comprehensive enough and nationally driven on what we’re going to do if we have to go remote, and we don’t have a plan of integrating digital access more permanently into our educational systems equally,” Dr. Turner Lee says in an interview. Back to Class: How schools can rebound.

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Veative

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Their thesis holds that a human being is linked with an external entity in a two-way interaction, creating a coupled system that can be seen as a cognitive system in its own right: All the components in the system play an active causal role, and they jointly govern behavior in the same sort of way that cognition usually does.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

This isn't a new story: even PCs, which were widely available in classrooms by 2001, rarely had a real impact on classroom instruction. But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies. Individuals have belief systems. So, what can be done?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort. Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock. It was just like everything was fine and dandy.”

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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. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year.

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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. While he was trying to get computers to learn, the school system was trying to get Roger Schank’s children to learn.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. . It was chaos.

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techlearning

JUNE 14, 2018

About the DEA Educational Foundation Established in 2001, the DEA Educational Foundation is a 501(c)3 non-profit organization dedicated to preventing drug abuse. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., The foundation supports the DEA through advocacy, outreach, and educational programs.

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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

JULY 15, 2018

Contracts with publishing companies ensure equal availability and pricing for Idaho’s large population of rural schools. They are using digital materials to engage and support instruction by implementing initiatives such as the learning management system, eBackpack, and moving to online and digital materials as a standard practice.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 17, 2018

” More important, the state-led procedure views the instructional materials as a system, rather than as individual parts. While the tools may have print components, companies must submit them digitally, and only the digital materials are reviewed.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

The state has hired the Southern Regional Education Board to examine affordability in Georgia’s higher education system and how efficiently universities are spending state funding. But the primary reason for the spikes in tuition and fees, she said, is declining per-student funding to the university system. he asked himself.

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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. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. The biggest bang for your buck is tutoring.

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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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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.”

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls. It was still recovering from the economic crash in 2001. Go way beyond “thinking outside of the box.” Imagine an electric amoeba.

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Fractus Learning

AUGUST 17, 2016

Without further ado, I am going to share the five main answers that my students came up with between 2001 and now to the question “ What is wrong with the curriculum in your school? ”. I went to his company when I was a kid and he let me drive the forklift. They’d shrug at me at say “ Yeah, pretty cool, I guess…. ” They loved it.

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eSchool News

APRIL 4, 2024

“By offering youth large print in Spanish, we create an inclusive environment that recognizes and celebrates linguistic diversity while ensuring all students have access to the same educational resources,” said Donna Gray, library coordinator at the New York City School Library System.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2022

Saga Education, a nonprofit tutoring company that focuses on ninth-grade algebra in low-income schools, reported that 78 percent of the more than 6,000 students it tutored across six cities passed their math classes in the spring of 2022. . “Changing educational systems at scale is hard.”

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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. million in its Series A financing round.

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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.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 22, 2016

Employers are beginning to realize the value of having veterans in their companies,” said Danny Eakins, education, employment, and policy administrator for the Ohio Department of Veterans Services and himself an Army combat veteran who served in Iraq. “We And your administration has to support veterans and understand what that means.”.

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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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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. Brandon coordinates the efforts of a national team of consultants, while assisting district and school leaders to implement the ISSN school model and Graduation Performance System.

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