The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

Before "going rogue" in 2007, Kate was the Staff Training Coordinator for The Seattle Public Library. Since then she has trained in and consulted with dozens of small and rural libraries around the Western states and served as the Conference Coordinator and then Executive Director for the Washington Library Association.

Libraries 41

Libraries Conference Pearson Advocacy 41

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

She arrived as an elementary teacher in 2008, drawn by the school’s racial diversity and stellar record in academics and the arts. In the spring of 2021, Gleghorn accepted a job at the New Orleans Career Center, a nonprofit that provides high school students and adults access to career and technical training, as well as academic coursework.

Report 144

Report Meeting Groups Data 144

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

million to train additional Alaska school districts and to create a research and development program. To encourage them along, the state offered schools $50,000 grants to subsidize RISC training, Gendron recalled. RISC, meantime, was acquired by Marzano Research and is no longer offering trainings.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

From 2008 to 2017, the share of Latinx students at this commuter school of roughly 4,000 rose from 13 percent to 22 percent — the highest of any public university in the state. Between 2000 and 2015, the number of Latinx college students more than doubled , to 3 million. household incomes by 5 percent by 2060, according to one analysis.

Dropout 109

Dropout Laptops Study Report 109

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ).

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 14, 2020

Cooper also led the seven-year effort to boost funding for public education that increased K-12 funding by over $2 billion and designed the state’s groundbreaking school funding formula which was enacted in 2008. She is currently Director of the American Economic Association Summer Training Program. We hope you will join us.

Conference 36

Conference Analysis Policies Survey 36

Dangerously Irrelevant

MAY 17, 2015

Could we take the billions of dollars that are going to testing companies and put it into rich, developmental pre-K? On the #6 train in NYC, it’s only about seven stops from the richest to the poorest neighborhood in the city. The Latino Boom, 1993-2008 (plus smaller populations of Bosnians and other refugees). Fred Rogers (Mr.

Education 100

Education Secondary STEM Policies 100

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2016

After graduation, he returned to his home country, where he worked at the Arthur Anderson consulting firm and the Firestone tire company. The company, then known as B.C. So the company shifted its recruitment efforts to Texas, and its thousands of workers from Mexico and Central America. We haven’t kept up.”.

Elementary 89

Elementary Training Classroom Company 89

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” More on bootcamps in the job training section below. The “pioneer in the science of learning,” as Inside Higher Ed puts it , will help the technology company with its internal training program. The Business of Job Training. ” The company, which has raised some $107.4 Well, well, well.

Education 45

Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2020

The company said it believes “the topic of climate change is a critically important one” and its newer editions “reflect current settled science regarding climate change.” Beatriz López taught seventh grade science in the Lake Travis Independent School District, in Austin, Texas, from 2008 to 2017. Credit: Courtesy of Beatriz López.

Pearson 130

Pearson Guidelines Company Study 130