Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Credit: Cavan Images The research on early childhood education can seem as messy as a playground sandbox. Studies of the Perry preschool in Ypsilanti, Michigan and the Abecedarian preschool in Chapel Hill, North Carolina documented higher levels of educational attainment and higher earnings for children who attended.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 28, 2019

The future of education is technological. Education must adopt not only the products but the values of the high tech industry. We have known for some time now that tech companies extract massive amounts of data from us in order to run (and ostensibly improve) their services. Necessarily so.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. Georgia State is one of a growing number of schools that have turned to big data to help them identify students who might be struggling – or soon be struggling – academically so the school can provide support before students drop out.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

As an assistant professor of economics at City College in New York, Shankar knew that one of the most important requirements of scientific research was often missing from studies of the effectiveness of online higher education: a control group. Related: How higher education lost its shine.

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eSchool News

JUNE 30, 2015

Public Sector team will speak to the risks of failing to address the pending end of service for Microsoft Windows Server 2003 at the International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) conference. million instances of Windows Server 2003 were running on 11.9 Microsoft research in 2014 reported that 23.8

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Educational Technology Guy

DECEMBER 8, 2014

All the details are available here: [link] speakup/speakupamerica.html They are also offering sneak peeks every day at the data from the more than 340,000 surveys completed so far by teachers, students, parents and more. You can see all the data reveals here: [link] speakup/speakupamerica_ snapshot2014.html.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

International data sets show U.S. It’s a conversation a decade ago that was so widely circulated and discussed that even dedicated education stakeholders grew weary of it: U.S. In 2013, the Program for the International Assessment of Adult Competencies ( PIAAC ) released the first-ever global data on how the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

The firm’s education holdings include Excelligence Learning, which builds and supplies physical products for early childhood education, and ClassWallet, a budgeting and payment processing platform for K-12 districts. Pittinsky also co-founded learning management services company Blackboard before co-founding Parchment in 2003.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2023

That’s the case with the most recent results from a key global education test, the Program for International Student Assessment or PISA. Education Secretary Miguel Cardona credited the largest federal investment in education in history – roughly $200 billion – for keeping the United States “in the game” during the pandemic.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 15, 2016

The following three sections detail the range of best practices found by researchers to be critical for ensuring educator growth and success: Effective Administrator and Teacher Leadership. Data to track and promote collaborative inquiry and practices that improve student learning. 2004; Alliance for Excellent Education, 2011 ).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2018

education levels by the second generation — the first generation of children to be born in this country. population, according to the most recent data. The key appears to be education because higher educational attainment is associated with economic success, social status, better health, family stability, and life opportunities.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. He and two other education technology executives shared lessons learned from both sides of the table when it came to mergers and acquisitions. Brekhus is a seasoned survivor of education mergers and acquisitions.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Focusing on student engagement, student empowerment, and equity in education, they shared key lessons educators learned during the lockdown. Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. Overall, the latest results reveal important changes in the education conversation.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2020

Higher education, as we know from our unwavering focus on inequality at The Hechinger Report, has a long way to go before black students and faculty members are both well-represented and comfortable on college campuses. This fall, blacks made up just 4 percent of the university’s 31,266 undergraduates, school data show.

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Dangerously Irrelevant

MARCH 31, 2015

Today, in this era of Big Data, explosive can hardly describe the exponential rate of growth. “Every two days,” says former Google CEO Eric Schmidt, “we now create as much information as we did from the dawn of civilization up until 2003.” via [link]. Related Posts. Even more important than interpreting text.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 8, 2023

Editor’s note: This story about education in Nepal was produced by Global Press Journal and is reprinted with permission. Bikram Mani Tripathi, education expert Consequently, many non-Nepali speakers send their children to schools across the border in neighboring India. 2021 census language data was unavailable.)

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2023

We had this intranet server service called FirstClass that kind of did in 2003 just about everything that Google for Education does now. One of those spaces is in a college of education classroom or a seminar room where you can kind of talk about teaching. Teachers sort of have two spaces that they learn.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 13, 2023

And since September 2003 the first time I stepped into a classroom as a teacher, a lot of things have changed in the field. Several scholars and educators have profusely discussed these characteristics and some of these discussions have even made it into peer reviewed academic journals and books.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New Markets is bringing back a familiar face to steer its next education investment fund. His newest role—as general partner at New Market Venture Partners—coincides with the first closing on a new education fund. His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. The Fulton, Md.-based

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Edsurge

MAY 10, 2019

Mariale Hardiman, vice dean of academic affairs at the Johns Hopkins School of Education and and director of Johns Hopkins’ Neuro-Education Initiative. And in my own doctoral work here at Johns Hopkins I became interested in looking at the research on neuro and cognitive sciences and what of that is relevant to educators.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

When I graduated with a bachelor’s degree from William & Mary in 2003, I desperately needed a job. Because of this outdated notion, very few colleges even keep data on whether their students are parents. In addition, I had $30,000 in student debt. In recent years, as U.S. student loan debt climbed to $1.6

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TeachThought - Learn better.

APRIL 13, 2015

The Assessment Range: Using Data In The Classroom To Meaningfully Affect Learning. If you don’t already have a plan for the data before giving the assessment, you’re already behind. Simply put, most planning templates in most schools used by most teachers on most days don’t allow for data to be easily absorbed.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

For young people today, learning is a 24/7 enterprise,” says Julie, Evans, the CEO of education nonprofit Project Tomorrow. “It Sixth graders, from our data analysis, really are the epitome of the student learner today [as far as] leveraging the experiences that they have with technology.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

MIND’s Chief Data Science Officer Andrew Coulson has made the case time and time again that the “one good study” paradigm is insufficient for edtech practitioners to base decisions on, and that a model of repeatable results at scale is one that should be adopted across the education industry. Dietrich, 2004), to name a few.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2003, a team of Harvard University researchers concluded a survey and mapped out the idiosyncrasies in the pronunciation of common English words across the globe. She noticed another problem: Many of the apps used speech recognition technologies that were trained with adult data samples. Let's call the whole thing off!

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

A February 2018 report found that, nationwide, those who earn a bachelor’s degree are likely to earn the same paychecks as their peers who had more educated parents. But data released from the statistics division of the U.S. Photo: Meredith Kolodner. “It’s partially good news.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

President Bush promotes his “No Child Left Behind” education agenda during a visit to Kirkpatrick Elementary School in Nashville, Tenn., But hindsight is a very different vantage point for Cassellius, who is now Minnesota’s commissioner of education. “It Monday, Sept. Photo: AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

This story was based on data from Tuition Tracker, a tool from The Hechinger Report. Ann Gansemer-Topf, associate professor of education at Iowa State University. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter. Find out how much students can expect to pay in the coming academic year at any U.S. college or university.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

Some of this is a result of an influx of Silicon Valley types in recent years — people with no ties to education or education technology who think that their ignorance and lack of expertise is a strength. Narratives about the “factory model of education” and whatnot. I mean forgetting what happened five, ten years ago.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. said Woody Dillaha, CEO and co-Founder of Performance Matters, in a statement.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2016

The findings come from The Condition of Education 2016 , an authoritative annual snapshot of educational progress in the United States, released Thursday by the National Center for Education Statistics. Data for Native Americans doesn’t reach back to 1995; in 2015, the bachelor’s graduate rate for this group was 15 percent.).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 6, 2019

This story is part of our Map to the Middle Class project , where we ask readers what they want us to investigate about educational pathways to economic stability. Higher education has long been viewed as the key to higher earnings and financial security. Photo: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2018

Since developing this system, named “ GradeCraft ,” five years ago with two colleagues, education professor Barry Fishman gleefully admits he’s awarding many more A’s. Related: Fitbit for education: Turning school into a data-tracking game. Higher grades and more motivated students sound good.

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Fractus Learning

OCTOBER 10, 2016

In addition, feedback from accounting graduate employers state that students need experience working within a diverse team, as they do so in practice (Howieson, 2003). I used student data provided at the start of the semester to mix the teams. Team Allocation and Coursework Design. References: Howieson, B.

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