EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Our schools are, in a sense, factories in which the raw products (children) are to be shaped and fashioned into products to meet the various demands of life.” (4) Data from the online Kahn Academy confirms this. That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. 4) Click to tweet.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 17, 2018

We were just talking about how we’re pretty sure we met just about ten years ago to the day that we are recording this, in Princeton way back in 2008. What it really does is it takes looking at digital citizenship away from, “Be afraid of who might meet you online,” to “How much time am I spending online?”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 8, 2019

23-26): the companies who supply the tools, and the educators who use them; The Education Show (Jan. Many of the ministers hop on over to Davos’ annual meeting afterward. One teacher described The Education Show as “a ghost town for companies who can’t afford Bett.” (A 20-23): the people who run education politically; Bett (Jan.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

In the summer of 2020, Talbott and her colleagues asked for a meeting with the charter school’s leaders to discuss racial justice at Lusher, one of the city’s most coveted for families and teachers alike; they also created an antiracism group for teachers. “But It’s crucial that school and district leaders address it.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. Prior to that, he founded Provost Systems an online learning platform acquired by Edison Learning in 2008. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. Stay tuned!

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

That fall of 2015, they began rolling out twice-daily meetings where students could talk about their emotions, exercises in which students mapped out their goals and aspirations and lessons to help teachers improve how they communicate with kids. Caroline Preston/The Hechinger Report. He knows enough to be cautious.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The companies get reliable employees and prospective hires while universities can promise students help with keeping their loan debt low. The companies pay EAW, which then pays the student workers, while the universities provide the office space. I’m learning how to work with coworkers, how to work with a client and meet deadlines.”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

Graduation rates for first-time, full-time students more than tripled from 2008 to 2016. While the college’s bottom-line shrank, data shows the technology wasn’t helping students, either. Since those days though, Texarkana College has earned a new reputation. And he’s no stranger to the campus today.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Southern New Hampshire University used to be unknown outside New England but it’s quickly grown since the 2008 recession to become a national online degree giant with more than 130,000 students. Often the courses they’ve already taken at their community college don’t meet a four-year institution’s requirements.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

More than 108,000 students who had taken out federal loans withdrew from Georgia’s public colleges and universities between 2013 and 2015, the most recent time period measured in federal data. Since 2008, average tuition increased from $4,700 to $8,400. He thinks a needs-based aid program is a great idea. “If

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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Graphite Blog

SEPTEMBER 22, 2020

How do I get started with meeting CIPA requirements? The E-rate program is funded through the federal Universal Service Fund and administered by the Universal Service Administrative Company (USAC), under the umbrella of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC). Category One: Data Transmission Services and/or Internet Access.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

It absolutely hasn’t,” his successor, Matthew Wilson, told the board in April during a contentious meeting to plan deep cuts after the coronavirus pandemic shut down the campus. By then, the president who had overseen that spending had retired. The problem that we have right now has not happened this year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2015

” (Steger, Oishi & Kashdan 2008) quoted in The 5 Skills that Will Increase Your Happiness. . I’m not saying things like data-driven analysis can’t help us — it can help us know our students and personalize learning. You become a misleader when you mistake meetings for action.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2019

In 2008, the San Diego Unified School District won voter approval for $2.1 The laptops provide access for students in a community where, he says, even a cellphone data plan cannot be taken for granted. Related : School districts’ uphill battle to get good deals on ed tech. billion in bond sales.

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eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

students would benefit if the district stayed the course with the company’s product. Unified acknowledged meeting with an agency attorney. At the time of the district’s most recent bond issue, in November 2008, iPads were still two years away from entering the marketplace.

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MindShift

JUNE 5, 2018

When a huge flood devastated Cedar Rapids, Iowa, in 2008 the community was faced with a host of problems more commonly seen in big cities, like homelessness. Students communicate with each other and with teachers through Slack and schedule times to meet up only when necessary. The local newspaper, owned by the Gazette Co.,

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

In just over a decade, 20 independent education companies have raised more than $2.7 Collectively, 116 directors serve on the boards of these privately-held companies. As much as one-third of edtech companies started during that time have a female CEO or founder. See our full list of companies and board members here. .

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

When Hallowell tried to extend proficiency-based education to its high school in 2008, parents put up a fight, saying the change would make it harder for their children to compete for scholarships and admission to selective schools, according to a case study published by the state Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Barbara Means, an educational psychologist at SRI International, a California-based research institute, says that while there is no hard data on the number of these schools, a reasonable estimate would be somewhere between 250 and 500. In 2008, 9 percent of Hispanic and 10 percent of black students in the U.S. Photo: Kathleen Lucadamo.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 12, 2010

He is CEO of Socratic Arts , a company whose goal is to design and implement learning-by-doing, story-centered curricula in schools, universities, and corporations. In order to get computers to learn, Schank realized, they would have to have expectations and they would have to know when new events failed to meet those expectations.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s normal to have at least half of users not meeting the program’s usage targets. This method, prescribed by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC ), also meets ESSA Tier II evidence standards. This quasi-experimental WestEd study is verified by SRI to meet What Works Clearinghouse (WWC) quality evidence standards.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In 2012, the graduation rate for men and women was 7 and 16 percent, respectively, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. You meet people who you don't think you would click with, but because you had something in common, it brings different backgrounds together.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

The proportion of 25- to 34-year-olds with postsecondary credentials nationwide has been rising, up from 38 percent to 45 percent since 2008, according to the Lumina Foundation, which tracks this. The figure is through 2018, the most recent year for which this data is available. That’s how it works. It’s that simple.”.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

On the homepage of the health technology company Akili Interactive , there sits an intriguing line of copy: “Time to Play Your Medicine.” A lot of people are keen on behavior management and the struggle is there aren’t enough resources to meet the needs,” Feldman says. This kind of thing really does work.”

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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. Perez has hoped to join Chavez, her friend, in the labor force soon.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

That’s where tuition financing companies set up shop, with the aim of attracting new clients with strategies to help for-profit colleges boost their enrollment numbers and bottom lines. Later that evening, amid cocktails and music, exhibitors made their direct pitches to administrators, hoping to earn their business.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

Have governments spent enough money to meet the unexpected and very steep costs of the last year? White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December.

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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. To help Columbia expand, New York State condemned land in 2008 in the West Harlem neighborhood of Manhattanville and used eminent domain to seize properties for the university.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2019

The Pepperdine University alum’s student loan payments came on top of raising her and running an online security company. This brings the company's total funding to date to $2.45 The app meets bank-level security standards, according to the company. According to company filings with the U.S. I’m still paying it.”

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. – over accusations about abusive lending practices,” as The Chronicle of Higher Education notes. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2018

Lake Oconee Academy was the brainchild of the Reynolds Lake Oconee real estate company. The analysis used federal enrollment data for the 2015-16 school year, the most recent year for which that data is available from the U.S. Company officials and their allies sit on many of the county’s most important boards.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Related: Colleges are using big data to track students in an effort to boost graduation rates, but it comes at a cost. Meanwhile, all but four states are spending less on higher education, per student, than they did in 2008 , according to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, a liberal-learning think thank. Those spending more?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 14, 2021

Related: New data — Even within the same district some wealthy schools get millions more than poor ones. In 2019, Wyoming produced 277 million short tons of coal, according to the Wyoming State Geological Survey , compared with 466 million short tons in 2008. This time last year, California-based pet supply company Laube Co.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

And this prompted me to update my list of education / technology companies that are ALEC members.). The Department of Education , under the auspices of “transparency,” promises more access to data about financial aid. His rather disastrous business history in ed-tech includes SoftKey and The Learning Company.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

Roma Ouk, 33, enrolled in the wire harness assembly boot camp at Mesa Community College in Arizona, a partnership with Boeing, and later was hired by General Dynamics, an aerospace and defense company, as a senior manufacturing and production operator. Credit: Brandon Sullivan for The Hechinger Report. It could provide states with up to $2.5

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 31, 2021

On her first job as an apprentice, in 2008, men called her “the pookie princess” after the sealant she used to close ducts that snaked along the ceilings of the tract homes where she worked south of Seattle. She drove home and called the company headquarters in another city. This story also appeared in USA Today. It was barely 7 a.m.,

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