Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.) The company says it has 50 hiring partners and plans to grow the list.

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The Thinking Stick

DECEMBER 31, 2015

By far the fewest blog posts I have written since I started the blog in 2005. For better or for worse there are now four different companies that I am a part of and each of those have me creating and producing content in some way shape or form for them. 14 countries and roughly 100,000 miles is a good goal for 2016 as well.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years. Nathan Levenson, former CEO at a crane-manufacturing company.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

And numerous studies point to the benefits of diverse organizational leadership, including one by the consulting firm McKinsey showing that companies with diverse boards performed better than those with mostly white men on their boards. Full disclosure, I was a TFA corps member from 2005 to 2007.).

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 percent of the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

And while the nationwide rate of foster care entrances is not as high as it was at its peak in 2005, many states have seen drastic increases in recent years. Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. In some ways, you probably hope you’re the only one.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. Department of Education.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Norton & Company. In fact, mindfully savoring positive experience promotes resilience (Smith & Bryant, 2016). Oliva & Piqueras, 2016; Simons & Gaher, 2005). Excerpted from “ Mindfulness in the Secondary Classroom: A Guide for Teaching Adolescents ,” (c) 2019 by Patricia C.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

The company does not have an exact count of how many Tasers are carried by school resource officers “because you’re talking thousands, and at some point you can’t even keep track of it,” said Steven Tuttle, the vice president of strategic communications. It recently reversed that decision, but results for 2016 are not yet available.).

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

Cindy Aden has been the Washington State Librarian since 2016. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries. For the answer to this and other questions, please join me for an overview of the issues.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

In a report publicly released in October 2020 , the Government Accountability Office (GAO) counted 99 school data breaches over the past four years, from July 2016 to May 2020, that compromised the personal information of thousands of students in kindergarten through high school. schools, including colleges and universities, since 2005.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 19, 2020

SESSION PRESENTERS: Cindy Altick Aden ( @cindycpaa ) Washington State Library/Office of Secretary of State Cindy Aden has been the Washington State Librarian since 2016. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries.

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Libraries Conference Advocacy Pearson 41

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2020

Cindy Aden has been the Washington State Librarian since 2016. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries. For the answer to this and other questions, please join me for an overview of the issues.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Cindy Aden has been the Washington State Librarian since 2016. Before that she worked in business development for OCLC, making connections between Silicon Valley companies and libraries. For the answer to this and other questions, please join me for an overview of the issues.

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Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 41

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

When Lou Allen started the Science and Technology Magnet High School of Southeastern Connecticut in 2005, he didn’t woo the state’s top students. This school year, 2016-2017, is the first time he hasn’t had to replace a teacher for the fall, something he describes as a triumph. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. NEW LONDON, Conn.

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Technology Study Course Report 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 19, 2016

Coursera ’s Daphne Koller announced in a blog post that she’s leaving the MOOC company she co-founded to work at a Alphabet (a.k.a. Google) biotech company, Calico. Various updates from Google : The company is “killing Google Hangouts on Air,” says The Verge. Seems like solid oversight!) Innovation!

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company. In 2016, California had 33 racially identifiable white charters, Texas was home to 19 and Michigan, 14. The charter was the creation of a real estate development company that is also the county’s largest employer, Reynolds Lake Oconee.

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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. I mean, the Cubs did win the World Series in 2016. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 8, 2016

NEW SESSIONS we've scheduled: Barbara Bailey, Janet Nocek, and Peter Chase , three of the four librarians who in 2005 challenged an FBI demand for patron records that came without a court order and forbid them from telling anyone they had received it. Sign up to attend or receive the recordings HERE. More information at [link].

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

And, in 2016, we would hope college students, who spend hours each day online, would look beyond a.org URL and ask who’s behind a site that presents only one side of a contentious issue. Oxford Dictionaries recently announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the Year. Post-truth or truthiness. ” ( Wikipedia ).

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Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” Shares in for-profit higher education companies were up on news of Trump’s election. ” Via AFR : “ Peter Thiel’s company Palantir Defense could win contracts under Donald Trump.” Inside Higher Ed profiles homework help company Course Hero.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 21, 2017

At least one Duke University study suggested that the arrival of broadband service in North Carolina between 2000 and 2005 correlated with a small, but significant dip in reading and math scores for elementary school students. Research about the effect of technology on children’s lives is, in fact, mixed.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. Accreditation and Certification.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2017

This prompts a “ disclosure alert ” – a new feature I’m starting this year to call out the financial ties between ed-tech companies. Ev Williams says his Web publishing company Medium is “renewing its focus.” Company housing has long been a great way to make sure your employees are compliant.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

According to an investigation by The Associated Press , “dozens of those hired by the company had checkered pasts – including serious financial problems and even convictions for cocaine trafficking or child molestation.” million from the company between 2010 and 2015 before he stepped down from his role there.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 24, 2019

He has worked on communications and technology issues for the state since 2005, including telephone regulation, broadband, economic development, central services management, data governance, and technology assessment. Derek was reelected to a third term in the U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2019

He has worked on communications and technology issues for the state since 2005, including telephone regulation, broadband, economic development, central services management, data governance, and technology assessment. Derek was reelected to a third term in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 26, 2018

Only a few weeks after getting her cosmetology license in 2005, she was hired at a local Great Clips. Shaw and Bez Lancial-McMullen, a former La’ James cosmetology instructor at the campus in Davenport, Iowa, recalled attending meetings in which company officials spoke of the need to maintain sizable profits. Even with tips, Ms.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2016

Voting Wars,” an investigation of voting rights and election participation, is the 2016 project of the Carnegie-Knight News21 program, a national multimedia, investigative reporting project produced by the nation’s top journalism students and graduates. In 2005, Hurricane Katrina wiped out the already failing New Orleans public school system.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. That is, Internet speeds of 100 Mbps per 1000 users.) ” Among them: an $8.71

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 24, 2016

.” DeVos’s brother, Erik Prince , is the founder of the private military company Blackwater , infamous for its human rights violations, including the murder of 17 Iraqi civilians in 2007 by its employees. C8xzJTP2yQ — The Baltimore Sun (@baltimoresun) November 21, 2016. The company offers online degrees in Africa.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2017

This is part three of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” As an education technology writer, I’m often chastised for considering student loan companies as part of my analysis. Student loan companies are “not really ed-tech,” some people still try to insist. Borrow money if need be.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

Remember in 2012 when Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller said in her TED Talk that her company’s goal was to “take the best courses from the best instructors at the best universities and provide it to everyone around the world for free”? Google)’s biotech company, Calico. “Long Live Online Higher Education.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

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