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MARCH 13, 2015

Statistics Outgrows All Other STEM Fields From 2010-2013. The ASA analyzed data compiled by the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES) on 160 STEM bachelor’s degree categories granted by U.S. FASTEST-GROWING STEM UNDERGRADUATE DEGREES 2010–2013. From a press release. public and nonprofit colleges and universities.

STEM 40

STEM Analysis Handbook Data 40

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The mid-Atlantic region near New Markets’ headquarters in Fulton, Maryland is home to some of the education industry’s biggest names, including Blackboard, EverFi, Laureate Education and 2U. Today, he believes that the Every Student Succeeds Act is the latest linchpin policy to shape the K-12 market.

EdTech 112

EdTech Blackboard Kaplan Company 112

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

As recently as 1997, only 27 percent of America’s K-12 school had internet access—a number that skyrocketed to 92 percent by 2003. The edtech industry made big strides during this era. It was a policy change that greatly encouraged the growth of “telecommunications correspondence” courses.

Kaplan 157

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 157

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 17, 2017

These schools are desperately needed to diversify economies that rely disproportionately on manufacturing and agriculture and lack the wealthy private institutions that fuel the knowledge industries found in Silicon Valley or along Boston’s 128/I-95 corridor. Related: Universities and colleges struggle to stem big drops in enrollment.

Industry 83

Industry Trends System STEM 83

Hack Education

DECEMBER 20, 2017

As I noted in the previous article in this series , the technology industry has continued this year to advocate for changes to both policy and curriculum to expand computer science education. Arguably this focus on CS was the one education policy pursued by Obama that Trump did not try to loudly reverse.)

Robotics 63

Robotics Company Industry Data 63

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It treats “ed-tech” as the result of markets and industry and “innovation,” and not as the result of policy or history. There is No Technology Industry (There is Only Ideology). “ There is no ‘technology industry’ ,” technology writer and entrepreneur Anil Dash wrote in August.

Technology 40

Technology Education Facebook Company 40