EdNews Daily

JUNE 16, 2016

Meet the career and college-planning app, Schoold.co. Today, parents and students have the ability to access endless amounts of college and career planning information. In 2006 National-Louis University asked me to build, launch and manage the first graduate advising program in the history of the institution. By Robyn D.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2021

June 21, 2021 — DreamBox Learning ®, the company that pioneered Intelligent Adaptive Learning technology, today launched DreamBox Lesson Recommendations, a new offering that gives educators real-time student progress insights with actionable next steps to meet student learning needs. BELLEVUE, Wash. About DreamBox Learning.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. The web was increasing its use of graphics, but had barely adopted video. billion in 2010.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

The growth has helped it stay competitive within the Ivy League and meet its broader ambitions to become a global institution. Conrad/The New York Times “There was a time when Columbia really turned its back on where it was located,” Bollinger said in a 2006 interview with The Times. “I Credit: Fred R. Liset Cruz and Emma G.

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eSchool News

MARCH 31, 2022

As part of Utah’s Student Credential Account and Aptitude Assessment , nearly 300,000 middle and high school students as well as teachers, counselors, and administrators will have access to YouScience Discovery in addition to Precision Exams by YouScience.

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TeacherCast

JULY 16, 2015

One of my favorite moments at ISTE 2015 came while interviewing the OneNote team and I had the opportunity to meet the guys who actually CREATE Microsoft OneNote. It is also one of the world’s most valuable companies. Jennifer began her instructional career in 2006. About OneNote. OneNote in Education Blog : [link].

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cultivating the First Language When the dual-language program at the Honors College at Miami Dade College launched in 2006, leaders recognized there was a niche of students who spoke Spanish at home but didn’t have the chance to develop into fully bilingual students. Back in 2006, it started with 50 students.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

In addition, access an array of standards-aligned resources designed for wherever learning takes place on Discovery Education’s flexible K-12 learning platform. Students and teachers can access on-demand exercises from NFL teams in the digital NFL PLAY 60 library to help them reach their recommended 60-minutes of daily physical activity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

The island has faced corruption and mismanagement in local government, billions of dollars in debt and mass emigration that has caused a critical loss of professionals and essentially halved the island’s student population in 15 years, from almost 550,000 in 2006 to 276,413 in 2021. Child poverty is widespread: In the 50 U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” Pam: I think that one of the things that particularly — in states like Virginia where the resources that localities have access to can be wildly different. Date: January 15, 2018. Bio as submitted.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Manheim Central School District (PA) Superintendent Dr. Peter Aiken said they partnered with a company to educate their staff about email threats. The company periodically sends phishing tests to staff; those that get caught clicking on the emails are given remedial lessons. Schools should also classify data (e.g.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

It’s no great overstatement to say that the Federal Communications Commission’s recent decision to rollback net neutrality protections has shaken the education community’s faith in open and equitable internet access for all students. Since it began in the 1990s, E-Rate has helped bring high-speed internet access to 97 percent of U.S.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

To watch the live show at 4:00 pm US-EDT, or to access the recordings afterward, please go to [link] (or [link] ). These are annual meetings for ministers of education and government policymakers. For today's topic, host Howard Blumenthal welcomes Diane Ravitch , New York University Research Professor in the Dept.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The National Survey of Student Engagement , or NSSE (pronounced “Nessie”), which McCormick now runs, was conceived in 2000 to track the ways students spend their time in college, including how and how much they study, meet with faculty and participate in class discussions.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

That’s almost double the number of young people who died of opioid overdoses in 2006. A couple dozen more came on board between 2006 and 2013, under a program that gave colleges federal grants — and, later, private dollars — to copy a curriculum created by Texas Tech University, the third institution to create a program.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company. But many of the 747 charters have implemented policies that critics say make it difficult for lower-income families to access them. Company officials and their allies sit on many of the county’s most important boards. GREENSBORO, Ga.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2019

District IT offices were taking on the same tasks as Fortune 500 companies without the ability to implement them as effectively. While the presenters named several reasons they chose to move to the cloud, their top reason was equitable access to edtech. First, all programs are accessible to all students and teachers.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The act called for “universal service” so that all Americans could have access to affordable telecommunications services, regardless of their geographical location. As an op-ed in The Washington Post put it , “The FCC talks the talk on the digital divide – and then walks in the other direction.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Zovio, Ashford’s parent company, declined to discuss Baca’s case unless he signed a waiver, but generally denied assertions that it improperly told veterans they were not eligible for GI Bill benefits. Formerly Bridgepoint Education, the company now called Zovio has raised eyebrows for years. Former Sen. Photo: Scott J.

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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. places that are also suddenly rediscovering brain drain and scrambling to confront it. With a record 7.1

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edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s also looking at the potential changes, said Dr. Gabe Soumakian, CEO and Founder, Sup Du Jour Consulting Group, like what happens when a software or hardware company goes out of business. ClassLink empowers your students and teachers with instant access to their learning resources. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems?

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this? women of groping and sexual assault. More via The LA Times. ” “U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

Leverenz and other critics have singled out two educational nonprofits — Mobile Beacon and Mobile Citizen — both of which rake in millions of dollars a year from their national holdings of EBS licenses, while using just a fraction of the revenue to supply much-needed broadband access to students. The Consortium for School Networking.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

That can be funding the institutions themselves; it also can be investing in financial aid,” said Debbie Cochrane, vice president of The Institute for College Access and Success, a national nonprofit. Alduha Leon, who dropped out of Savannah State University with $30,000 in debt when he was about halfway toward earning his degree.

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edWeb.net

MAY 17, 2021

Located in the suburbs north of Seattle, and close to the headquarters of high-tech companies such as Microsoft and Amazon, the Northshore School District’s students are 60% White, 17% Asian, and 13% Hispanic, with another 9% identifying as mixed race. Systems, Strategies, and an Equity Framework. Ayva Thomas.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 8, 2016

” In his role, Salcito meets with education leaders around the world, and when the pace of change comes up, he hears a common refrain. The company acquired the popular game earlier this year. “In many cases, their expectation, their ambition, is to automate or digitize, not transform. We need to shape what that means.”

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A 2019 study from the nonpartisan Albert Shanker Institute found only five states spend enough money to help students in high-poverty school districts achieve test scores that meet the national average; Washington ranked among the lowest spenders on that list. The second failed by less than 1 percentage point. percent in 2009.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

ATLANTA — Brent Agnew remembers feeling a sense of relief when he left the meeting called to discuss his 6-year-old son Caleb’s anxiety attacks. As he and his wife, Jennifer, walked into the parking lot outside the E E Butler Center in Gainesville, Georgia, that day in 2006, the two could picture a different future for Caleb.

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2016

There’s an assumption that virtual school students are closed off, online all day, and they don’t ever meet anyone. VLACS is headquartered in a former high school in Exeter, New Hampshire — a brick edifice used for a century until the town opened a new high school in 2006. That’s not the case.” Relationships Matter.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. Nigel also serves as Mayor Menino’s advisor on emerging technologies.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

This work has focused on policy and innovations to foster universal broadband access and adoption, digital and media literacy, local journalism and information hubs, public service media, civic engagement, and government transparency. Nigel also serves as Mayor Menino’s advisor on emerging technologies. He holds an M.Ed

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

He seemed like somebody I’d like to meet.”. One of the draws for Hispanic families is Monterey Mushrooms, a national company with farms about 10 miles southwest down I-75 from the school. The key, she said, is for Hispanic families to have access to accurate, detailed information about all their options. I looked it up online.

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