Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2018

But the tea leaves for E-Rate are pretty positive actually. Rather, it's centered in the popular E-Rate program, which has provided billions of dollars in broadband discounts and infrastructure upgrades to schools and libraries. Early in his tenure, Pai revoked an Obama-era progress report praising E-Rate modernization.

E-rate 85

E-rate Broadband Digital Divide Libraries 85

The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

Company 145

Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. Perkins Act evolved into “career and technical education” when the law was updated in 2006.

Industry 121

Industry E-rate Mobility Meeting 121

edWeb.net

JANUARY 22, 2018

Some of the biggest companies in the world today didn’t exist 10 years ago, and some of the biggest brands don’t own the content they distribute. Uber, the largest taxi company, owns no human driven taxis. If we don’t get the instructional design right, we just speed up the rate of failure. D elegate.

PowerMyLearning 43

PowerMyLearning E-rate Conference Company 43

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump.

E-rate 49

E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

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? ” The company in question: Dipont Education Management Group.

Education 40

Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

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.”

MOOC 40

MOOC Technology OER Coursera 40