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

Edsurge

1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. Not yet convinced? Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. billion in 2010.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

1932, 1944, 1956, 1968, 1980, 1992, 2004, 2016, 2028), legend has it that you are a person who is family oriented, you enjoy family get-togethers, indulge in family traditions, and you thrive in group work. If you were born in the Goat year (e.g.,1931, Zodiac animal: Monkey Monkeys are associated with long life and longevity.

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

Edsurge

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). But expect more deals to come. Yet that’s not all.

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What Does Innovation Mean in Higher Education?

Edsurge

You can’t walk around any college campus, school district or company without hearing the word “innovation.” Antoinette Siu) According to Wellington Reither, senior advisor to Crow, planning for ASU’s downtown Phoenix campus began around 2004. Is there a limit or consensus to what innovation actually means?

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Why Professors Need to Work to Inspire Their Students

Edsurge

In his book, Social Intelligence: The New Science of Human Relationships (2006) , he describes how we humans are hard-wired to connect with one another. Bain writes in What the Best College Teachers Do (2004): “They consciously try to get students’ attention with some provocative act, question, or statement.” Just RSVP here.

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Thursday with Howard Blumenthal - "What About My Job at School?" #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

From 1997 to 2004, she was a member of the National Assessment Governing Board, which oversees the National Assessment of Educational Progress, the federal testing program. As an executive, Howard was the CEO of a public television operation and several television production companies, and a state government official.

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When school districts fall into debt and can’t get out

The Hechinger Report

The atrium of Whitmore Lake High School, part of a nearly $48 million capital campaign approved by voters in 2006. Nationally, school district debt has grown substantially, from nearly $323 billion in 2006 to $443 billion in 2016, according to U.S. The district has struggled since then to pay off its construction debt. Census data.

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