EdNews Daily

AUGUST 29, 2016

Combining current-day footage, at the time of their hoped-for high school graduation, with a wealth of material shot over more than a decade, starting in 2003 when they were just entering their first year of school, the film reveals who has made it through, despite daunting obstacles. Saturday, September 17: 2:00 p.m.

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Report Dropout Education Outcomes 124

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

education industry has not become so dependent (yet). TAL Education Group , which began as a solo tutoring operation in 2003 and has since grown into a publicly-traded empire, boasting $620 million in revenue in 2015 from a network of over 300 brick-and-mortar tutoring centers. film and production studios. Last month.

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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. And K-12 isn’t just one market if you’re a content company; you need to hone your expertise in particular subject areas, such as math, English or STEM.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. By 2012 the conditions were ripe for the predictive analytics industry to take off on campuses around the country. But some STEM majors are tougher than others. Foundations had given seed money.

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Data Dropout Company Report 107

Edsurge

AUGUST 25, 2017

Nearly 40 percent of students starting at 4-year public institutions took at least one developmental (or college-level readiness) course while enrolled from 2003 to 2009. For the University of Alaska, that number is even higher: an internal study shows 60 percent of students required developmental coursework over the last 10 years.

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Education STEM Study Course 89

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. So many losses. No evidence.

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Technology Education Report Training 40

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. billion ) – but that didn’t stop some industry folks from crooning about what they saw as a windfall. Saturday’s Child.

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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.

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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.

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