Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Both companies trace their lineage to top-pedigree universities: Carnegie grew out of research on computer-based instructional systems started by Carnegie Mellon researchers. Carnegie Learning is best known for its intelligent math system, Cognitive Tutor, developed in the 1980’s. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2019

In some cases, the company also helped the applicants cheat on ACT or SAT tests, or took online classes for them to boost their applications. The Los Angeles-based company, called USA-UES, listed Rick Singer as its co-chairman as of Thursday. Officials for the company did not respond to our repeated requests for an interview.

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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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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

In partnership with Excel Education Systems , the program is designed to help adults obtain their high school diploma entirely online, as well as prepare them for college and the workplace. Excel High School is a nonpublic school headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and has been in operation since 2005. About Excel.

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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

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Nearly four years later, the Utah-based company is taking another business leap, with a $10 million investment from edtech venture capital firm Owl Ventures. We needed a company that was able to do that.”. Then going forward, the company would charge for services, like maintenance or software hosting, to drive revenue.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Kinney’s distinguished 25-year career in education began in Pennsylvania’s public school system at the Sharpsville Area School District , where he served as the district’s Instructional Technology Coordinator. I am incredibly honored to be selected as the next CEO of this great company,” said Kinney. “For

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

While describing her experience after Hurricane Katrina flooded out her district back in 2005, Truesdale harped that leaders should be prepared for lack of access and instability at any time. Houpe has been working with a company called Cisco to secure his district’s network.

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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

JUNE 2, 2014

February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. So Slivka decided to launch a new company partly inspired on long-ago science fiction reading, such as Enders Game by Orson Scott Card and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson—books that weave futuristic education tools into the narrative. But what if digital creations could leapfrog that system?

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

California’s Huntington Beach City School District (HBCSD) will be adding 60 MimioSpace collaborative systems from Boxlight Corporation (Nasdaq: BOXL) (“Boxlight”) to its classrooms in order to support its expanding technology initiative. The MimioSpace collaborative system consists of a laser projector, touch board, and Mini-PC.

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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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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 5, 2020

A global community of education professionals, the Discovery Education Community connects members across school systems and around the world through social media, virtual conferences, and in-person events, fostering valuable networking, idea sharing, and inspiration. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

Between 2005 and 2017, public schools in the U.S. percent pay raise — but according to reporting by Education Week, “they also want class-size reductions, changes to the teacher-evaluation system, and more school nurses, librarians, and restorative-justice advisors.”. But why exactly are parents paying for paper and pencils?

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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. It is changing.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

From 1995 until 2005, she held the Brown Chair in Education Studies at the Brookings Institution and edited Brookings Papers on Education Policy. As an executive, Howard was the CEO of a public television operation and several television production companies, and a state government official.

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Bryan Alexander

JUNE 4, 2016

It’s an unusual one, involving another country and a different educational sector, according to Newsday : Michael Puorro, chairman of the college’s board, told Newsday that trustees still are in “serious talks” with United Kingdom-based Global University Systems , an international network of postsecondary institutions.

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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. Of those who failed both semesters in 2005-06, only 15 percent graduated in four years.

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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. My advice is to start out simple with a FREE account at WordPress.com and get your feet wet using the worlds most popular Content Management System (CMS).

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 11, 2016

Digital Promise, a nonprofit interested in promoting ed-tech and the use of research in schools, says it created the “ Research Map ” with both companies and schools in mind, so each set of players could probe academic scholarship independently, based on their needs. ” she said.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 17, 2020

She worries about being exposed to Covid-19, especially as cases rise across the nation, including in the Calcasieu Parish school system here. Tiffany Guillory was a student at McNeese State University in Lake Charles when Hurricane Rita hit in 2005. I don’t know how they do that, day in and day out.” In the 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. No updates for operating systems and browsers. The impact of Flash on education and the classroom.

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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. is a book about learning in public; it’s about how you can set up a system in which you can learn things in public and become who you are and share that in a way that actually helps you learn.

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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.

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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. . It was chaos.

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Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

I’m especially interested in social media that can be used to go beyond the often institutional centric LMS systems. However, I’m not so thrilled about moving directly to commercial systems like Facebook or LinkedIn, due to privacy and ownership concerns. Steve: Terry, thank you very much. Reference Cousin, G. Learning from cyberspace.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 15, 2022

The once-steady flow of international students to the United States increased every year from 2005 until 2019 , when anti-immigration sentiment, tension with China and other problems began to chip away at the numbers. There’s just a sense that we need to do something because we’re losing so many people out of the system.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2017

Once upon a time the learning-management system (or LMS) was a new idea. To mark the 20th anniversary of Blackboard, one of the first LMSes, the company’s co-founder, Matthew Pittinsky, wrote an epic blog post about the company’s history, which includes his advice for today’s edtech leaders. The idea was simple. But we’d say no.

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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. A dearth of people with the right skills is the top problem for the small businesses that employ half of all U.S.

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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. His projects have been award- and patent-winning and generated millions in revenue. BusinessWeek, U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Unicorns don’t exist, except as an analogy for private companies supposedly worth at least $1 billion. But Glotzbach’s point is that camels are hardy and steady—just as he hopes his company can be. With this latest fundraise, the San Francisco-based company has raised $62 million in venture capital to date.

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Edsurge

JULY 10, 2020

Companies selling admissions algorithms say they have a fairer, more scientific way to predict student success. They use games, web tracking and machine learning systems to capture and process more and more student data, then convert qualitative inputs into quantitative outcomes. Enter the algorithms. But this play has a purpose.

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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. The story starts in 2005 when Dale Dougherty founded MAKE: magazine as a quarterly publication with his long-time business partner, Tim O’Reilly.

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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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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

To cancel the effects of poverty, school systems are extending literacy programs to the larger community. That’s almost unheard of,” she said, adding that students were learning “hundreds of new words a day” by using the system. That’s where Weil’s company comes in. Mention Napa County, Calif., More than just literacy skills.

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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. Department of Justice.

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