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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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SchooLinks Raises $7M to Take on a Giant in K-12 College and Career Planning

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For counselors, there are application management trackers, a communication dashboard, course planners and other administrative tools for meeting state reporting compliance requirements. This path has led the Austin-based company to compete head-on against one of the most established players in the business: Naviance.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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When a Pandemic Upends Labor Markets, Will a New Workforce ISA Fund Work?

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Since arriving from Mexico at age 18 in 2002, Abraham Cachu has dabbled in technology, starting with music software. He was working for a tech company, but this was no tech job. In July, Cachu started taking online classes during the day, learning skills and programming languages like R, which is often used in data analysis.

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A school district wades through a deluge of social-emotional curricula to find one that works

The Hechinger Report

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Now every class begins with a “morning meeting.” He knows enough to be cautious.

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Which Edtech Companies Are Listening to Teachers?

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Earlier we talked to educators who feel disillusioned by edtech companies’ seemingly disingenuous engagement tactics or feel invisible in the edtech choices made at their schools. Educators at the Helm Before we dive into that data, it’s important to understand the broader context of our analysis.

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Can online learning level the AP playing field for rural kids?

The Hechinger Report

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. In 2017, several companies opened so-called “online high schools” that turned out to be no more than diploma mills. million students took about 4.5 In 2014-15, some 2.7