Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Onex, another private equity firm, invested in PowerSchool in 2018 and shares equal equity ownership with Vista. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Executives from both companies were unavailable when reached by EdSurge (but we will update the story with additional details and commentary when available).

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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. A 2018 Brookings study found water workers tend to be a few years older than the average American worker. Take Omaha, which has experienced a surge in technology companies that can’t find enough plumbers, electricians and mechanics.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

in 2018-19. To make sense of what this means, higher education system with GER less than 15% is considered elite, where access to higher education is limited and is viewed as a privilege. However between loans and scholarships, less than 10% of enrolled students have access to financial support. in 2014-15 to 26.3

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2018

Sponsor: The STLinATL Conference will be at Woodward Academy in Atlanta July 26-27, 2018. Link to show: Date: April 5, 2018. You know, we’re not giving the kids the tools in school along with opportunities to collaborate, that they need on the job, that the companies are asking for. www.stlinatl.com. Stream by clicking here.

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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

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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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. We had some momentum.

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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. Recently, teachers requested more ways to access the high-quality content they need for teaching and learning. Inspired by the global media company Discovery Inc.,

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

Microsoft will invest $75 million over the next three years in initiatives to increase access to computer science education for youth. The program pairs engineers from Microsoft and other high-tech companies with teachers to team-teach computer science in high schools. And cities are also placing a new priority on computer science.

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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. In May 2015, the district extended ChiTech’s reprieve until 2018. But Garrett didn’t buy this reasoning.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At Florida and Rhode Island now mandate 20 minutes of recess time a day for elementary school students.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

This intriguing research is a must listen for any school with access to technology. Date: January 10, 2018. 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.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Sam Larson, 15, measures a section of his cardboard canoe during ANSEP’s summer Acceleration Academy at the University of Alaska in July 2018. In the summer of 2018, Schneider worked with the U.S. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. ANCHORAGE, Alaska — Sam Larson was looking for loopholes.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

For over a decade, North Carolina has been the site of one of the most sustained, successful initiatives in education: giving all students in all schools access to broadband internet with WiFi in every classroom by 2018. This built considerable local support across party and geographic lines for the work.

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Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Via Forbes : “The Startup President: How France ’s Macron Nearly Built An EdTech Company.” ” Ed-tech: where you don’t need an actual product idea for a company, and you can incubate your neoliberalism anyway. So many people predicting this company would disrupt higher ed.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

SeanMcElwee) April 11, 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.” link] — abolish ice.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And by the spring of 2021, Congress had approved three separate rounds of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief fund, known to educators as ESSER, sending a grand total of nearly $190 billion hurtling toward classrooms that have not seen such federal largesse since 2009, during the Great Recession. percent in 2009.

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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. After completing her M.Ed.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The office manager of a medical technician company, Ruiz was working to validate her medical degree from her home country of the Dominican Republic, so she could practice medicine in the United States. At the beginning of 2020, Brisandi Ruiz was hopeful about the year ahead. And an additional $10.7

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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. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. The real digital divide, this article contends, is not that affluent children have access to better and faster technologies. (Um,

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 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. The annual Gallup poll gauging the public’s confidence in public schools did reach its highest level this year since 2009.

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