The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

They were curious if framing employees’ work by their results (instead of “you have to be at your desk from X to Y”) would improve both company outcomes and employees’ experiences. Between 2005 and 2007, productivity increased by 41% and employee turnover decreased by 90%. Where, when, and how they chose to do the work was up to them.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Called Blitz, the service lets companies propose a project, and then Udacity provides a cost estimate and puts together a team of alumni engineers to complete it. Once the project is finished, companies have the option to hire “Blitzers” full-time. The company defines “job” as full- or part-time and freelance work.)

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Kathy Schrock

FEBRUARY 1, 2020

DENlove In addition to mainstream social media channels, many companies provide a platform for their users to grow their PLN, too. As outlined in this 2018 article , The Discovery Educator Network, or DEN, was launched in 2005 to connect educators who were using Discovery Education with others around the world.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

New schools are being built every few years to keep pace with a surge in families moving to the area due to its proximity to technology and engineering firm Sandia National Laboratories and new business hubs for companies such as Intel and NTX Bio. Students attend in-person classes once per week.

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Edsurge

JULY 1, 2019

I graduated in 2005, so the great teachers of almost one-third to half of my adult life have been pretty much mentors from afar or dead people. For example, fiction versus poetry. It’s similar to Emily Dickinson scribbling on the back of envelopes or Hannah Höch making collages with patterns from her job at a fabric company.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 15, 2015

For example, the USDA dietary guidelines--which don't require that we have a degree in nutrition to see how the claims of "science" have changed over the decades, or how politics and money have influenced science-based claims, or even how much those authoritative guidelines may actually have been a part of tangible harm because of their influence.

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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. Related: Montana vote becomes a national referendum on public confidence in higher ed. workers, a Gallup survey found.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 10, 2015

Horn, a co-founder of the Clayton Christensen Institute for Disruptive Innovation, stepped down Friday as director of its education program to begin working more directly with companies in the education market. Horn, who was a student of Mr. Christensen’s at Harvard Business School in 2005.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2017

And although the body of research on the effects of same-race principals is still relatively small, it does point to black student benefits: for example, a national study published in the March 2017 Elementary School Journal found that black students are more likely to be recommended for gifted programs in schools that have a black principal.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Wentworth, for example, will add combined four-year bachelor’s and master’s degrees in data science and cybersecurity analytics starting in the fall of 2023, the university says. Three-year degrees can appeal to another important market for U.S. Then Covid decimated them.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

For example, a major breach at educational testing company Pearson during the 2019-20 school year affected an unknown number of student records in thousands of schools. schools, including colleges and universities, since 2005. Hundreds of companies are peddling protection against viruses and malware to districts.

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MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Norton & Company. These examples illustrate the range of human experience. Much of our daily experience is less emotionally charged, but for the sake of simplicity, let’s work with the examples above. Oliva & Piqueras, 2016; Simons & Gaher, 2005). Used with permission of the publisher, W.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Companies selling admissions algorithms say they have a fairer, more scientific way to predict student success. A Boston Globe analysis of more than 100 high school valedictorians from the classes of 2005 to 2007 found that 25 percent didn’t get a bachelor’s degree within six years. Enter the algorithms. But this play has a purpose.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

These are just a few examples of how a growing number of K-12 leaders are realizing that, to overcome the effects of poverty on student achievement, school districts have to begin reaching children before they even arrive at school. That’s where Weil’s company comes in. Houston has a similar initiative. More than just literacy skills.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

In 2005, the nation’s governors signed a bipartisan compact agreeing to use the same formula to calculate how many of their students earned diplomas. Billions of public dollars flowed to private companies, including some operations of questionable quality, set up specifically to take advantage of the federal windfall.

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Education Policies Learning Report 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2022

Those videos got the attention of the company, which offered her a sponsorship. And many people don't realize that you can [00:07:00] follow hashtags. #TeacherTipTuesday Trend on TikTok and Instagram So for example, I started the hashtag #teacherTipTuesday, and I started that trend on TikTok. I don't look like I did in 2005.

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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. Students study the human body on skeletons, using clay to make organs. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo. NEW LONDON, Conn. Instead, in accordance with state law, admission was based on a lottery.

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Technology Study Course Report 40

Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive , there sits an intriguing line of copy: “Time to Play Your Medicine.” She singles out video games as a common example. Since its founding in 2005, the lab has tested a variety of games. But games make up the lion’s share of the team’s work.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2022

When Hurricane Katrina swept through the Gulf Coast in 2005, the storm decimated entire communities in Alabama, Louisiana and Mississippi. A participant in the Women in Construction program. Photo courtesy of Moore Community House. Demolishing the wreckage and rebuilding infrastructure required significant labor.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

Most school districts don’t have a municipal bond expert on staff or on their board, leaving them at the mercy of financial companies to guide them through the bond issuance process. million bond issued in 2005. Mark Robbins, a professor of public policy at the University of Connecticut. In a separate case, Kansas City-based George K.

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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2017

It allows companies to pay employees via direct deposit, and for you to pay others via mobile apps or online banking services. Over the next month, the EdSurge Research team will be profiling companies about how they think, plan, and guide their product development process to address these needs.

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Data Blended Learning System Industry 63

TeacherCast

MAY 8, 2019

In 2010, I had the opportunity to listen to my first podcast while taking a trip with my wife and from that moment, my life and my career would forever take an amazing turn that has given me the opportunity to connect with thousands of educators and hundreds of companies and make a pretty nice life for my family in the process. Microphones.

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Video Social Media Google Conference 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

Her professional blog, Always Learning, is an invaluable resource for teachers seeking examples of authentic student engagement. In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. Father Goose).Sea

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company. Many charters hire teachers who don’t belong to a teachers union or haven’t gone through a traditional teacher preparation program, for example. Company officials and their allies sit on many of the county’s most important boards.

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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. Take iPads , for example. This is part one of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. So who do you believe? Hype wanes.

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Technology Education Report Training 40

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 1, 2017

The networks of canals, for example, were built along rivers. ” I’m concerned, in no small part, because students are often unaware of the amount of data that schools and the software companies they contract with know about them. Many software companies claim that the data that’s in their systems is their data.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

content farm or content mill : a company that employs a staff of freelance writers to create content designed to satisfy search engine retrieval algorithms with the goal of attracting views and advertising revenue. ” ( Wikipedia ). virality : the rapid circulation of media from one user to another.

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Social Media Handbook Facebook Report 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

That being said, if you’re using a piece of technology that’s free, it’s likely that your personal data is being sold to advertisers or at the very least hoarded as a potential asset (and used, for example, to develop some sort of feature or algorithm). Without revenue the company will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

The learn-to-code company Treehouse has launched “Techdegrees,” “a guided-learning experience designed to prepare students for entry-level developer jobs at companies across the country.” ” The story above is just one recent example of technology entrepreneurs making claims that do not “add up.”

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Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

There were several points in the presidential campaign that some pundits argued the Trump University scandal would torpedo Trump’s political aspirations: when news broke that Florida Attorney General Pam Bondi had sought a donation from Trump before nixing a fraud investigation into Trump University in her state, for example.

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Education Technology Company Industry 40

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 24, 2019

Property maps, 311 data, school quality information and census statistics - all of these are examples of open data that give people the tools they need to learn and advocate for their causes. Derek served in the Washington state House from 2005 to 2007 and the state Senate from 2007 until he was elected to the US House in 2012.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 22, 2019

Property maps, 311 data, school quality information and census statistics - all of these are examples of open data that give people the tools they need to learn and advocate for their causes. Derek served in the Washington state House from 2005 to 2007 and the state Senate from 2007 until he was elected to the US House in 2012.

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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. They spend some time in classrooms learning about, for example, chemicals and how to sanitize the work space, but once they’ve hit a certain number of hours, they start working on real clients in salons run by the schools.

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Training Comparison Company Report 111

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. ” Among them: an $8.71

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

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. percent to 11.5

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Technology Education Industry Company 48

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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MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

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Technology Education Facebook Company 40