Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

Founded in 2002 and based in Pittsburgh, Niche has raised a total of about $45 million in venture capital. Skurman’s company originally focused on college ratings under the name College Prowler. In 2013, the company rebranded as Niche and added K-12 and neighborhood data. Niche.com CEO Luke Skurman shares company history.

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Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Tuition increased 89 percent from 2002 to 2012, and textbook prices—which cost anywhere from $600 to $1300 today—rose 82 percent over the same period, according to U.S. Finding the good stuff—and support The largest obstacle faculty reported around setting up OER content and degrees was the time and resources required to find and vet content.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 13, 2017

The only other education technology company present, out of 45 total recipients, is Agile Mind , which develops online math and science curriculum and assessments. What distinguishes SBIR-backed companies is the level of research baked into their product development. 2016 SBIR Awardees. 3C Institute (SEL for autistic students).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2022

As the calendar flips to a new year, we had reporters sit down with students in four cities to give us their predictions of and aspirations for the future. Credit: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Christina Samuels/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Christina Samuels/The Hechinger Report. “My

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2018

The Hechinger Report/Joanne Jacobs. Pathways, Exposure, Academic Connection, Knowledge (PEAK) takes students to local companies such as Google and Facebook, as well as to hospitals, law firms and other businesses. As a high schooler, Kateryn Raymundo interned at Salesforce, a tech company, through the nonprofit Genesys Works.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The company partners with schools to provide online monitoring software that can alert instructors or administrators if it detects students typing or searching for certain keywords related to sexting, cyberbullying, radicalization, self-harm and more. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5 and Australia.

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

The company will showcase the new features of its award-winning product this week at ISTE 2018 in booth #630. “We It also provides classroom management and anonymous reporting features, as well as tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5

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techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” It also provides anonymous reporting features and tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices. Founded in 2002, Impero software is now accessed by over 1.5

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Software Digital Citizenship Handbook Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. That’s a sharp increase from the 2002-03 school year, when, according to the U.S. Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. LEXINGTON, Miss.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2019

Many would point to the high-profile announcements of expanded tuition-assistance programs from companies such as Starbucks , McDonald’s , Walmart and Chipotle as evidence of increased employer investment in employee development. This trend is laudable, and it is having an impact—but it masks a much more mixed picture.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

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. According to the most recent quarterly report issued by SDWP, job openings fell by one-third between the first and second quarter of 2020.

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myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. The adoption of the internet slowly grew until 2002 where finally over 90% of public school had access to the internet. The impact of Flash on education and the classroom. What does the Adobe Flash end of life mean for educators?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. To answer that question, The Hechinger Report combed through grant databases, legislative records and lobbying disclosures, looking for the forces and funding behind LD 1422. Kelly Field, for The Hechinger Report. The Gates Foundation is among the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. In addition to the housing development falling through, the pharmaceutical company Pfizer, one of the region’s major employers, pulled up stakes in Ann Arbor. Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. WHITMORE LAKE, Mich. Why are they first to be cut?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2022

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. At the start of our journey to pull back some of the edtech curtain, we set out to survey roughly 30 edtech companies of varying sizes and subject areas.

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MindShift

JUNE 7, 2018

This story on STEM education was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Joanne Jacobs for The Hechinger Report). The program, founded in Houston in 2002, plans to train and place 150 interns in the Bay Area this fall. SAN JOSE, Calif. —

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MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

A 2015 report found that the lack of AP classes may increase the financial burden on college-bound rural students: Students who don’t take AP classes don’t earn college credit that could enable them to graduate more quickly, and such students are “more likely to pay for additional remedial coursework when beginning college.”.

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Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

In just over a decade, 20 independent education companies have raised more than $2.7 Collectively, 116 directors serve on the boards of these privately-held companies. As much as one-third of edtech companies started during that time have a female CEO or founder. See our full list of companies and board members here. .

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Norton & Company. regulate are becoming more popular for younger children (Lantieri, 2002), they are not usually available to adolescents. Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C. Used with permission of the publisher, W.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2023

There are hula-dancing and lei-making lessons and outposts of Hawaii’s iconic Honolulu Cookie Company and ABC convenience stores. They’re not the first to do this; Pittsburgh-based Carnegie Mellon University, for example, spun off a campus in Silicon Valley in 2002. More than 40,000 have stayed permanently.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 5, 2022

One team of seven researchers led by Jeni Burnette, a psychologist at North Carolina State University, found that the results were wildly different for students across 53 studies published between 2002 and 2020. The debate heats up appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Often they didn’t. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Analysis Study Training Report 128

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it. The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2019

Department of Education launched in 2002 to help educators decide which educational products to buy. The first is that a company is unlikely to publish unfavorable results. That might allow an education product company to measure what they’re teaching more precisely. That’s an archive of research that the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

Related: Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research. A flood of stories about the number of disconnected students brought to mind Warren Buffett’s famous 2002 admonition to his shareholders: “You only find out who is swimming naked when the tide goes out.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 27, 2019

That makes it especially valuable to an education company like HMH, which is best known among teachers and students as a textbook publisher. The company seems to be betting that it might not be such a hard sell to get her back into schools and homes given that so many Carmen fans now wield purchasing power and lead classrooms of their own.

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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. and Hello Hello (Little, Brown and Company Books), and appeared in the Dan Zanes and Friends concert DVD, All Around the Kitchen! Father Goose).Sea

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Buncee

JUNE 23, 2021

Research shows that “The social climate of the classroom more strongly predicted GPA than teachers’ instructional practices (Griffith, 2002). You read that correctly. The social climate of your classroom trumps instructional practices for impact on student performance. Now let me throw one more fact at you that might blow your mind.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Stakeholders—from educators and nonprofits to politicians and private companies—have all rowed in one direction to spur the strategic use of technology to ensure that all students have access to a great education. A new report, “ Strategic Policy Playbook: Driving Innovation In Education for All Students ” summarizes this important story.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 20, 2016

They noted the menu of research reports, graphics and videos, and the “About” page describing the site as a project of a “nonprofit research organization” called the Employment Policies Institute. By and large, according to a report the group published last month, the answer in each case is no.

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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. Barbara coined the phrase “Making Learning Personal” in 2000 and trademarked it in 2002.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. Significantly, ESSA mandates the collection and reporting of per pupil expenditure data at the school level. This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

Disclaimer: Harrison-Henderson, a former journalist, wrote several articles for The Hechinger Report before she worked for the state.). After graduation, he returned to his home country, where he worked at the Arthur Anderson consulting firm and the Firestone tire company. The company, then known as B.C.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

The New York Times reported over the weekend that, despite a growing number of women who’ve come forward in the last week claiming that Donald Trump has groped or assaulted them, billionaire investor Peter Thiel will be making his first donation to the Republican Party candidate’s presidential campaign. To what end?

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. “Progress,” the FCC boasted in the report.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The phrase “PayPal Mafia” is used to describe the group of PayPal founders and employees who’ve gone on to become some of the most powerful players in Silicon Valley, forming additional technology companies and investment firms and becoming millionaires (and in a couple of cases, billionaires) in the process.

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