The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

He is currently the head of assessment and learning sciences at Roblox, an online gaming company. In response, testing companies have conducted research to prove that the combination of grades and test scores is important by calculating that the two together are best at predicting first year college performance.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

During her time there, the company tripled in size and she earned a promotion. When it launched in 2005, the idea of a $100 laptop for the world’s poorest children captured the backing of Google, eBay and UNDP. Edtech companies entering low-income countries are noticing some of these challenges and are working towards solutions.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report But, two years in, enrollment had dropped to 87 kids, a 65 percent decrease. Credit: Carly Graf for The Hechinger Report “Do we continue to fund something that is showing declining enrollment?” said Rachel Aaker, the principal of SpaRRK Academy, who spearheaded its creation. “I

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

also triggered by a specific event (publication of the 1983 report “A Nation at Risk”) during which academic rigor, supported by standards and testing, became a national priority. be built around) those technologies perceived as representing the latest form of modernity. into a common identity. the Board of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

At the beginning of 2021, The Hechinger Report’s members (individual readers who donated money to our nonprofit news organization) asked us if we would report on the best practices for helping the nation’s public school system recover from the pandemic. Credit: Sarah Garland for The Hechinger Report. Your stories. math-teaching?experts.?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In the 1980s, researchers developed an adaptive-tutoring math system used in high schools and colleges, and the tool was spun out as an independent company in 1998. Since then the company has swapped hands between other private-equity firms and private investors. He declined to share whether the company is turning a profit.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2017

KEENE, N.H. — Harrison Hicks, 16, sat at a small corner desk in the offices of Filtrine Manufacturing Company, a maker of water filtration equipment, drawing circles as his mentor, Josh Flagg, watched. New Hampshire did this, for all schools, in 2005. Harrison Hicks, 16, working at his Filtrine Manufacturing Co.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2016

More than 780 breaches in schools, resulting in the disclosure of more than 14,790,000 records, have been reported since 2005, according to the Privacy Rights Clearinghouse , a California-based nonprofit consumer advocate. The report found that only 51 percent of the educational program websites checked provided this protection.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

Over the next week or so, The Hechinger Report will be publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software. He and wife became, in his words, “accidental philanthropists.”

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Next Generation Science Standards and 2005 Alabama Course of Study: Science. Reporting features that will show engagement and achievement levels of individual students for more precise need identification and effective grouping. Web-based preferred. Standards-aligned: 2010 Alabama Course of Study: Social Studies. Who can I ask?

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

Their two years of work culminated in their recently released report “Bridging the High School to College Math Gap.” Read the working group’s report and learn more about the Prudential Financial Newark Math Initiative here. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., About Schools That Can.

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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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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Noah Willman for The Hechinger Report. This is not the first time three-year degrees have attracted attention.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. satisfaction, engagement, grades, mindsets, attitudes, persistence, views, logins, clicks, etc.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Some low-income students may already qualify for a $31 test fee reduction via The College Board, the company that designs AP curriculum and exams. According to data from The College Board, the number of students taking exams in Mississippi has increased from about 3,900 in 2005 to about 7,800 in 2015.

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TeacherCast

MAY 26, 2019

Once you get some confidence with your podcast there are several microphones to start from such as the AT-2005 , Blue Yeti , Snowball , or AT2100 USB Microphones. You can get away creating a nice podcast with only your iPhone and some free apps such as Evernote , OneNote , or Bossjock. 2: Not Choosing the Right Website Platform.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

This story about the opioid crisis and foster care was produced as part of a series, “Twice Abandoned: How schools and child-welfare systems fail kids in foster care,” reported by HuffPost and The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. .

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Photo: Alex Tran for The Hechinger Report. 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. Photo: Alex Tran for The Hechinger Report. “We

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

In surveying students after disasters, Lai said she generally finds that up to half report post-traumatic stress symptoms. As FEMA aid trickles in slowly , and insurance companies delay payments — many people in southwest Louisiana say aid came faster after Hurricane Rita 15 years ago — teachers face a mountain of logistical hurdles.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. In 2005, Lee co-founded NAAP to offer summertime musical theater programs to schoolchildren in Chinatown. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Eveline Chao for The Hechinger Report. In the foreground, music teacher Ryan Olsen operates the sound on a laptop.

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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. Department of Education report on diversity among educators. But, following the 1954 U.S.

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myViewBoard

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

For over 25 years, Adobe has been one of the largest and most diversified software companies in the world. Flash peaked around 2005 when other programming platforms starting to gain tractions including HTML, CSS, and JavaScript. The impact of Flash on education and the classroom. Countless software and computer applications used Flash.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Digital Promise and other nonprofit organizations including EveryoneOn and The Learning Accelerator have been working with companies and schools to ensure these programs and offers are making their way into the hands of teachers, students, and families across the country. Kalama Intermediate School.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 21, 2015

Online and blended learning provider Edgenuity works with more than 16,000 schools, and from that base, the company identified 10 schools and districts that are taking blended learning to the next level through student-centered, personalized instructional models that create new ways to address instructional goals and deliver better student outcomes.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 21, 2011

He works with governments in Europe, Asia and the USA, with international agencies, Fortune 500 companies and some of the world’s leading cultural organizations. All Our Futures: Creativity, Culture and Education (The Robinson Report) was published to wide acclaim in 1999.

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MindShift

JANUARY 28, 2019

She ran cross-country and track, played soccer and threw herself into lacrosse, helping her school team make it to the state final in 2005. Unlike in the high school classroom, where learning is often abstract, students playing sports are carrying out physical activity in physical space, often in the company of others.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

Most recently he served as the WMU Coordinator for the “Kalamazoo Promise” which began in November 2005. In 1995, he was commissioned to write a paper entitled, Schooling and Learning in an Information Society for the United States Congress which appeared in a report by the U.S. He held this position from March, 2006 until June, 2008.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

Fifteen years ago, Brenda Cassellius was an assistant principal at a Minneapolis high school when a local reporter asked her about the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), the brand-new congressional overhaul of federal education policy. This is just the medicine we need,” Cassellius recalls telling the reporter.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2016

It is produced in collaboration with The Hechinger Report. This is one of at least 84 incidents of children being Tasered or shot with a stun gun by a school police officer since September 2011, according to media reports tracked by The Huffington Post. About This Series. Bullied By The Badge? Set To Stun.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 30, 2011

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. News and World Reports. Clark Aldrich is a global education thought leader, labeled a guru by Fortune Magazine. BusinessWeek, U.S.

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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 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. One common thread, she wrote in a report on her work, was that students saw themselves as capable in math and sciences and were comfortable using technology. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2019

After 15 years of inspiring millions of people to be creative and “make” something out of just about nothing, Maker Media, the company behind much of momentum, shut down due to financial shortfalls. Google, a newly public business, reported a mere $6 million in revenue at the end of 2005. It’s been tough.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 16, 2022

Those videos got the attention of the company, which offered her a sponsorship. A Tip to See Less of Videos – Hold Down on a Video Megan Mayer: They've done a lot of updates, but if you hold down on a video, you'll get like a little menu box, and it will say, “add to favorites,” “report,” or “not interested.”

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Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 11, 2022

(Longtime readers may recall that the research group I founded at Utah State University in 2003, the Open Sustainable Learning Opportunities group, became The Center for Open and Sustainable Learning in 2005, which I directed until I moved to BYU.) and will help us to continue to create products of the highest quality.”

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