eSchool News

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Learner-centered education can play a critical role in reshaping education systems, offering a more holistic approach to meeting learners’ needs and helping students find fulfillment in their academic accomplishments. For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio.

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Education Elements

MAY 17, 2018

I was involved in two important decisions in 2007 while serving as the Assistant Superintendent for Curriculum and Instruction at Maine Township High School District 20 in Illinois. Innovation often requires leading, not following, in technology advancement.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Being nerdy pays off, and soon there will be another education technology company on the public market. Nerdy, the parent company of Varsity Tutors , an online tutoring platform, will be acquired by TPG Pace Tech Opportunities, a special purpose acquisition company. The deal will give Nerdy a valuation of $1.7

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Stamford, CT – September 5, 2019 – The Game Agency has been named to the 2019 Top Training Companies List for the training delivery sector of the learning and development market. Selection to the 2019 Training Industry Top 20 Training Delivery Companies List was based on the following criteria: Value of platform features and capabilities.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 12, 2019

She talks about what we need to know and also the common mistakes educators make when starting to use UDL. is an internationally recognized educational consultant in the area of Universal Design for Learning and is the podcast host of UDL in 15 Minutes ( www.theudlapproach.com/media ) , heard by educators in over 25 countries.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Early in his career, Evan received the Horace Mann Educator of the Year Award. His first book titled, The Principal’s Leadership Sourcebook: Practices, Tools, and Strategies for Building a Thriving School Community was published by Scholastic in the fall of 2007. Scholastic EDU named Evan one on the 10 educators to follow on Twitter.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

The most effective educational tools and services are ones developed and informed by those with firsthand experience in schools. So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? Having that prior experience has been a huge advantage in building products for educators.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

When deciding whether a company is viable to be bought, CareMonkey president Peter Bencivenga says the magic number is 90 percent. That number refers to customer retention rate, and Bencivenga said he’s called off potential acquisitions when a company’s performance in this department isn’t up to snuff. Don’t wait.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 31, 2016

New investment into Triseum continues to provide growth opportunities for a company already breaking barriers with over 40 percent of its staff being female. Student graduation and thruput of students is dropping and our educational delivery method for our mobile, digitally driven next generation is failing.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

Nine edtech companies, nominated by the incubators that hatched them, will present to an audience of 25 education leaders. The Colorado-based company was formed in 2016 from the merger of two existing organizations: Digital Directions International (est. 2007), a research lab which builds virtual tutors for reading and science.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Naviance is used by students to learn about their life and career interests, and provides recommendations for what educational options can best support them. But it has been actively expanding its portfolio, purchasing nearly a dozen edtech companies over the past five years. Across these products, the Folsom, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. This week, Varsity Tutors raised $50 million in a Series C round led by Learn Capital, an education-focused venture firm. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

As 2007 State Teacher of the Year in Rhode Island, Catherine Davis-Hayes is passionate about helping every teacher use the arts in their classroom. That arts are an essential element of education, just like reading, writing, and arithmetic.”. We all need arts in every classroom, in every subject, in what we do as educators.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Higher education is heading into the eye of the tornado. Now, more than ever, as educators and institutions, we need to recenter ourselves on our why —not on how we get through this or when this storm will be over. In education, we are really good at focusing on what and how and when, at solving the problems before us.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2021

Since I write about education and tech, I wondered if there were applications in the world that EdSurge covers. My first step, naturally, was to reach out to an educator who knows the NFT space. And that includes in education. That fun factor has been embraced by other education groups as well. A New Kind of Diploma?

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Pam Moran, superintendent in Albemarle County in Virginia, shares about some cool virtual reality in Virginia, some challenges with helping new teachers get started, and how she thinks education is entering a new Renaissance of creativity and innovation. Educating Kids for Life Not for Tests. Get motivated today listening to Pam.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since its founding in 1984, Lexia has grown from a small home-based business in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to a company with nearly 1,000 employees currently serving more than 6.8 million students and over 620,000 educators across more than 23,000 schools nationwide.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Given students’ interest in technology, educational technology tools are a promising way to motivate them to learn. a consulting company for product designers. a consulting company for product designers. Journal of Educational Psychology, 1975, 67, 776–783. Journal of Personality and Social Psychology, 74, 1681–1695.

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Ed Tech from the Ground Up

OCTOBER 20, 2016

Her work on the product development side of the educational textbook publishing industry gave her the experience and inspiration to launch an ed-tech startup. Before founding Zulama, I worked for 25 years creating educational textbooks. Guest post By Nikki Navta, Founder and CEO of Zulama. In particular Minecraft and World of Warcraft.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

He now makes more than $100,000 as a project lead for a company that installs wind turbines. More than 60 percent of the construction workers who lost their jobs from 2007 to 2009 never returned to the industry, said Michael Ibrahim, an assistant professor of civil engineering at California State University, Los Angeles.

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2019

Here’s what’s buzzing across an expanding education industry whose focus now spans from early childhood learners to adults throughout their careers. Education as an employee benefit Learning doesn’t stop once you land a job. And the presence of executives from companies outside of the industry reinforced that point.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In late October, education policy and advocacy group iNACOL opened its annual conference with a bang. The organization wants to focus on other approaches to improve education, such as personalization, that go beyond online learning. And earlier this year the Buck Institute for Education emerged from its chrysalis as PBLWorks.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 10, 2014

Over the past several years in both politics and education, the word “change” has created a buzz that incites people to believe that something big is about to occur or that there will be a dramatic shift from the status quo. This is not necessarily the case in all matters and in particular the matter of education. That did not happen.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2019

New Castle School District, also in Pennsylvania, will host an upcoming workshop addressing how educators can redesign learning spaces to support personalized learning and student agency. Family-friendly events are located at libraries, museums, schools, tech companies and nonprofit organizations. Interested in innovative spaces?

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

Superintendent Mark Edwards talked about the Mooresville Graded School District’s experiences integrating technology into K-12 education during the 2013 Summer Connection in Mooresville, N.C. Adkisson for Education Week – file). based company. who have visited the town to learn from its community of educators.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Learnocity’s Educate Developers event in New York City stands out from many bigshot edtech conferences. Started in 2007, Learnosity creates online education assessment and teaching software. developer company. Inside Learnosity's Educate Conference. His ideas are supported by other developers.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2019

If it seems baffling that companies with no revenue can raise money from private investors ( ahem , as some edtech startups did in the early 2010’s), then EdTechX Holdings might just sound outright crazy at first. Last October, the London-based education group went public on Nasdaq with no revenue, assets or product.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But it boasts a voracious appetite when it comes to ingesting education data and, now, another company. The company has raised $1 million in venture funding since launching in June 2014. In 2013, Schoolzilla spun off as an independent company, and currently serves over 100 school systems across more than 25 states.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2021

But the power that these tests and the companies that profit from them once held in the college admissions landscape is forever diminished. It is important that we continue to identify and address such barriers because studies have proven that increasing the diversity of a student body improves educational outcomes for all students.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2017

Fueled by an explosion of broadband access, education software and, of course, the irresistible allure of financial returns, investors across the world want a slice of the U.S. The new fund (simply dubbed “Owl Ventures II”) will support companies that serve a broad range of learners, from preschoolers to professionals. edtech industry.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. put $150 million in Hero K12 , and Bain Capital, whose Double Impact Fund is on the hunt for promising (and lucrative) education teams. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

This story is a part of our Map to the Middle Class project, in which readers ask questions about educational pathways to financial stability and then we investigate. On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

This is part four of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Way back in 2012, I chose “ The Platforming of Education ” as one of my “Top Ed-Tech Trends.” The company has raised some $77.5 Are any education technologies, for that matter?

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2022

For example, in Steve Jobs' Apple presentation in 2007, there was a technical error in the system, and Jobs couldn't proceed with his slides. Let us consider Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple, a company loved and aspired by many students! This can be anything – from technical glitches to random difficulties from the audience.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

Private equity’s pursuit to acquire puzzle pieces to build comprehensive educational technology platforms shows no sign of slowing down. 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.

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