EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In 2003-2004, I taught a first grade English immersion classroom for the City of Espoo’s Jalavapuisto elementary school. What were two things that excited you about working with the company? Depending on student bookings, I typically teach until 10 or 11 am. You recently joined 51Talk as an online English teacher.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 20, 2012

Join me Friday, February 24th, for a live and interactive FutureofEducation.com webinar with Dennis Littky to talk about "The Big Picture:" his book , Big Picture Schools, and Big Picture Learning. as featured in an NBC movie, A Town Torn Apart based on the book Doc: The Story of Dennis Littky and His Fight for a Better School.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

of Education, author of 12 books including the recent Slaying Goliath: The Passionate Resistance to Privatization and the Danger to Our Public Schools; Cindy Cisneros , Vice President of Education Programs at the Committee for Economic Development at The Conference Board; and Gavin Dykes , from England, Managing Director of Cellcove, Ltd.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

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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techlearning

MARCH 22, 2018

Having been a freelancer since 2004, I thought I'd share my views on the matter. Having said that, 2018 is very different from 2004 in terms of the options available. For example, you can hire a book–keeper and an accountant. Main advantages Variety You know the old saying, variety is the spice of life.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 15, 2015

Malicious intent, willful blindness, or benign myopia--whatever the causal cognitive mechanism at play with individual actors in this game, it doesn't make any sense for us to allow food companies and their agents to set food guidelines, or bankers to help set banking policy, or. or testing companies to influence education policy.

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EdTechTeam

JULY 10, 2018

Some heroic technology directors, like Mark Garrison and Jennie Magiera, even appear in this book. He is now President and CEO of the EdTechTeam , a global network of educational technologists that provide professional development and consulting services to learning institutions, nonprofits, and for-profit education companies.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

We''ll use Clark''s recently-published book, Unschooling Rules , as the basis for the conversation. His experience ranges from spending years working with children at a leading environmental education foundation to serving on boards of universities, of companies, and in the intelligence community. Based in New York City, Ms.

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The Electric Educator

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Five companies to watch in 2011 Five trends to watch in 2011 Five people to follow in 201 1 Five Blogs to read in 2011 Josef Dunne, Via Flickr 1. HTML5 The development of HTML5 has been underway since 2004. I have no doubt that eBooks are here to stay and that the sales of printed books will drop steadily.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign. There’s no excuse in 2020 for the books in your classroom and the books in your library not to be reflective of the population in the U.S. Picture books: Hands Up! That needs to be a goal,” said Michelle H.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

As origin stories go, the founding of Blackboard twenty years ago lacked that single light bulb moment that tech companies like to tell. The winner of the LMS market would be the company with the most widely adopted platform. In recent memory, we launched Blackboard in 1997 and took the company public seven years later in 2004.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2016

One of my favorites: “Books will soon be obsolete in schools,” Thomas Edison said in 1913. The very next day, Apple shares hit $97.80, an all-time high for the company. Any day now. Any day now. The quotation is from 2012. The markets, according to the press releases, are always growing. Fantasy. .”

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ProfHacker

DECEMBER 9, 2015

Danielewski’s House of Leaves is my favorite book of all time, in no small part because of what a great teach it is. I’ve been excited to get the first couple of books from his new, 27-volume series, The Familiar and I can’t wait for the third. And I’m enjoying my first dives into the Grimes LP. Technology.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 11, 2017

It’s a well-known fact: A child who develops a love of books and reading will recognize a lifetime of benefits. (1-4, Studies have indicated that access to books reverses the impact on reading scores associated with poverty. (5, Krashen 2004. Community-wide literacy makes for a better community. It just might. Atwell 2007.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 5, 2018

Aimee: Several years ago — I think it was 2006 — a student gave me a book for Christmas. She’d put a note in the book that said that she believed in me when I said I would write my own book someday and that this was to get me a good start. I asked my class for help with the title of my book. Vicki: Yeah.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2019

The company was renamed “Amplify.” Five years later, Berger led a management buyout of the company, backed by Emerson Collective. A friend recently read a 2004 Harvard Business School case study of Wireless Generation’s work in Montgomery County, Maryland, and responded: “Thanks! In some ways, Amplify has returned to its roots.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Amani Ghusein Ghusein, who teaches science to grades 3 through 8 at Dawes Elementary School, caught the surprise announcement made on the The Late Show with Stephen Colbert that cryptocurrency and finance company Ripple had made a huge donation to fund every project on education crowdfunding site DonorsChoose.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For-profit schools, such as Salter and others owned by its parent company, Premier Education Group, have zeroed in on this market. The company posted more than $175 million in profits between 2004 and 2014, according to a 2016 lawsuit filed by a former company CEO who alleged that he was owed bonus pay.

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Hack Education

JUNE 15, 2017

No doubt, today’s technology companies view students and schools as a largely untapped market. Technology companies – particularly those hawking aspirational, education-related products – have long viewed parents in a similar way. Mattel is, after all, a toy company with lots of intellectual property.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 26, 2021

essential in helping solve problems for parents and helping schools,” says Johany Bobadilla, an immigrant from the Dominican Republic who has run her own program in Boston since 2004. Still, she owed money to her landlord, as well as the gas and electric companies. Roxana Contreras grew up caring for younger kids.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

Their answers to that question, plus.mp3 audio files for listening to these special interviews, as well as a number of articles and books, are all part of the bonus package for buying the Summit all-access library pass. I also asked each speaker, " What do you think the secret to success in life is?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In 2004, while working as a café owner near Atlanta, she stumbled on a group of boys playing soccer. One source of criticism has come from the education company responsible for the phonics curriculum, Wilson Language Training’s Fundations, Futransky said. Photo: Aaricka Washington/The Hechinger Report.

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MindShift

DECEMBER 23, 2019

In 2004, while working as a café owner near Atlanta, she stumbled on a group of boys playing soccer. One source of criticism has come from the education company responsible for the phonics curriculum, Wilson Language Training’s Fundations, Futransky said. She learned that they’d moved to the U.S.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

I read the book that very year – and honestly, I don’t often buy or read books in hardcover – shortly after my own husband died. ” I found her book comforting, while its material horrific, in part because it was a book. Information was control,” Didion writes. So who do you believe?

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Hack Education

MAY 26, 2016

I’ve written two books about “the monsters of ed-tech” and certainly the “rough beasts” could be their kin. Ads for these creatures appeared in the back of comic books, alongside a number of other products promising similar sorts of scientific amazement and technological trickery.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Now known as the Alpine Program, it was where 13-year-old Jonathan King, a child diagnosed with ADHD and depression, hanged himself in 2004 after being placed in a windowless “seclusion room.” Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It It looked amazing on paper,” Brent recalled.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 28, 2022

Experts have pointed out that a national debate about “critical race theory” – which is often connected to critiques of one book in particular, The 1619 Project – contain echoes of prior debates about whether evolution and sex ed should be taught in schools. Related: Are book bans stopping a Marxist “revolution” or whitewashing the past?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 16, 2016

He was the first investor in the social media company in 2004.) Peter Thiel’s entrepreneurial and investment history, in brief: He co-founded the online payments company PayPal in 1998 with Max Levchin. At the core of the companies that Thiel has founded and funded is surveillance. Who is funding the policy makers?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In Iowa in particular, the companies charge steep prices — nearly $20,000 on average for a cosmetology certificate, the equivalent of a two-year community college degree twice over — and they have fought to keep the required number of school hours higher than anywhere else in the country. Students were regularly pulled out of Ms.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He has also been named a Master Educator by Course Hero , an education technology company that produced a short film on Boyer. . Professor John Boyer teaches World Regions through his comic book alter ego. Every week there is a book reading quiz. You can also watch this Course Hero video on Vimeo.

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