MIND Research Institute

JUNE 11, 2019

Over the past several years, MIND Research Institute has been endeavoring to change the conversation around edtech evaluations. A few weeks ago, EdSurge published an article that echoed many of those same sentiments, most specifically that the overreliance on “gold standard” RCT studies is the wrong approach for edtech.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. 1993-2004: Building the Infrastructure. Not yet convinced? Not yet convinced? The infrastructure just wasn’t ready.

Kaplan 159

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

He said Turnitin has been cashflow positive since 2004. billion, the deal is the larger than the total amount that edtech startups raised in 2018, which reached a new peak last year at $1.45 billion purchase of Lynda in 2015. billion in 2015. The company has swapped hands several times over the years.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2004 $695,900,000 (President Bush’s request: $700,500,000). FY 2015 $0. Office of Management and Budget Program Assessment: Enhancing Education Through Technology (Rating: Not Performing, Results Not Demonstrated ) (undated, but stopped being maintained after the Bush administration). FY 2003 $700,500,000. FY 2014 $0.

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Policies Technology Program Evaluation Education 150

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

When it first opened its doors in 2004 as a part of the Civic Committee of the Commercial Club of Chicago, the organization took a leading role in opening charter schools across the city—130 of them, to be exact. Creating a Platform to Help Parents Navigate New Schools for Chicago wasn’t always focused on school choice.

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Tech Helpful

NOVEMBER 18, 2016

This is the progression of technology integration at CCS lower school since I came on staff in January of 2004 as a part-time related arts computer teacher. In the 2015-2016 school year, in decision with our fifth grade teachers, the fifth grade became a 1:1 required BYOT iPad grade. We've come a long way baby!

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Technology Digital Citizenship Khan Academy Elementary 40