Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. Given their respective footprints in the U.S. and Canada.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2018

That’s the pitch behind GitHub ’s announcement that, starting today, educational institutions will now be able to access—for free—its enterprise and business-level offerings as part of a new GitHub Education package. million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education. Though the startups presented a wide range of ideas, Runway co-founder Phil Kim said what connected them all is an effort to “tackle access and equity.”

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 Edtech Companies With Asia-Based Investors. Based Company. Authess $2.2

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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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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 4, 2020

“What this whole crisis has done to higher education is just exposed the cracks that have been there for over a decade of financial mismanagement,” said Fernanda Borges Nogueira, senior network program manager at the Roosevelt Institute, a think tank that advocates for making colleges affordable and more accessible.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

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. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2017

What would it look like if the 2012 craze around massive open online courses were rekindled in service of hybrid colleges, if universities rushed to create credit-bearing degree pathways for learners who don’t want, can’t afford, or can’t access the four-year residential college experience? 2009 Bachelors $40K = $10K/yr @ 4 yrs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

Students have access to hundreds of courses while they are in Illinois’ juvenile justice facilities, but they tend to focus on math, language arts, social studies and science. CHICAGO — By Marquell Brown’s count, he has been locked up “roughly 42 times” since 2009. Related: Will thousands of prison inmates lose access to college?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

While there’s still a significant racial gap in educational achievement, the proportion of Black students nationwide who graduated from high school on time rose from 66 percent in 2009-10 to 79 percent in 2017-18 , the last period for which the figures are available from the National Center for Education Statistics.

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techlearning

JUNE 25, 2018

- New Improvements to Techbook Platform will Make Relevant Content Even More Accessible to Teachers and Students - Silver Spring, Md. million students in the 2016-2017 school year. Recently, teachers requested more ways to access the high-quality content they need for teaching and learning.

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MindShift

AUGUST 8, 2017

There’s gold in them thar cubes: More than 120 million copies have sold since Minecraft launched in 2009.*. It serves predominantly low-income African-American and Hispanic children, many of whom face basic barriers to catching the tech and gaming bug — like access to the internet and access to devices.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. The only way I know that this can be changed is when there’s access to higher education.”. It impedes access to institutions they might be qualified for, because it’s not being accepted.”. How is it going to be accessible?

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

Alduha Leon takes a quick break while setting up for the travel party he and his business partner hosted in Adair Park in Atlanta on Saturday night, July 29, 2017. In 2009, state appropriations made up 61 percent of the general funding for USG institutions, while tuition accounted for nearly a third of it. Georgia State Sen.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

One way is through acquisitions like the one his university made of the Claremont School of Theology in California, or CST, which is being moved to the Salem, Oregon, campus of Willamette, just as private companies consolidate to increase their size and cost-effectiveness. That’s a good reach-out by the universities, no question.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5

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Technology Pearson LMS Edmodo 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

The school, where more than 90 percent of students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, and 14 percent are counted as homeless, was founded in 2009 to teach skills valued by the booming technology sector. It’s an access issue that creates this belief issue,” she said. But Garrett didn’t buy this reasoning.

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The Thinking Stick

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Communicate, communicate, communicate” ( AIR, 2017 ). Certificate Level : For those that are independent learners but also want company on their journey. This has been a focus of ours ever since we started our first micro-credential (even though that’s not what it was called at the time) in 2009. Start small.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

Around 2009, Lee learned about the Junior Theater Festival (JTF) in Atlanta, where students from across the country gather for three days to compete, take workshops and nerd out over musical theater. Instructors Kyle Garvin and Hannah Balagot, both professional theater performers, teach choreography to students at Yung Wing School.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

This intriguing research is a must listen for any school with access to technology. So where can people access what you’ve done? There are some outlets that are starting to give you access to already-randomized assessment items. You do not need iPads to implement and learn from this research. Opening Graphic. Vicki: Wow.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

When Schroeder finally concluded in 2009 that there weren’t enough university freshmen of Alaska Native descent prepared to succeed in college-level science and engineering courses, he (and the staff who had joined him by then) started a high school program. The majority (70 percent) of ANSEP’s $7.6

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

A Columbia University spokeswoman, Samantha Slater, pointed to $170 million in contributions the university had pledged to the community near its campuses starting in 2009, saying the investments “have been a model for similar investments by other universities.” “The million since 2017 on firms that lobby city and state officials.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

If one were to name the top tech companies that people want to work for, the FAANG s wouldn’t be a bad bet. Going forward, we don’t think Silicon Valley will be the only place where new companies are being formed.” Today, the Indianapolis-based company raised a Series A round totaling an auspicious $7.77 million seed round.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

But you can own access to the full library by buying the Summit all-access pass, which is $99, a $50 savings from the price after the 25th. Buy the all-access pass here and have access to all the sessions and bonus materials forever. Join for free to watch the current sessions and the upcoming interviews here.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Via Inside Higher Ed : “The governor of Virginia has approved a bill requiring all public higher education institutions in the state to take steps to adopt open educational resources – freely accessible and openly copyrighted educational materials.” The company sells a tablet for use in prison. NAEP NAEP NAEP NAEP !

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Click here to register to attend the conference live or to have access to the conference recordings afterwards. Ozelle Stephen, Rev/Director of Education, Miridians Elementary School, Centre of Enabling Support Foundation, Uganda Access to Quality education Opportunities, Good Health + Well-being for all.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 13, 2020

Yet the number of graduate students grew 39 percent from 2000 to 2017, the last year for which the figure is available, to more than three million, much faster than the increase in the number of undergraduates during that time, according to the U.S. But many less selective universities and colleges have been seeing declines.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. with Pigeons.

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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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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

“ Facebook Is Not a Technology Company ,” media studies professor Ian Bogost also wrote in August. If that’s what “technology” means, then every company is in the technology business – a useless distinction. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

The lying did not start on Inauguration Day – 20 January 2017. ” The photographic evidence clearly showed otherwise – the crowds on the mall were visibly smaller than those gathered for the inauguration of President Barack Obama in January 2009. Here Lies the President of the United States.

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