Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2018

Education technology accelerator programs are often studded with robotic kits or educational games. But the latest cohort at Michelson Runway, an startup accelerator geared towards higher-ed companies, highlights a broader approach to innovation in education. and is asking for $250,000 of a $750,000 raise by July 2018.

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Khan Academy Company Adobe Data 76

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. This latest cash infusion comes on the heels of Degreed’s first Series C round in March 2018, which totaled $42 million. are now 20 percent.”

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Coursera Company Learning Analysis 88

Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2019

For her Schoolzilla company to continue to grow, it needed a larger sales division. based company up for acquisition talks. Schoolzilla, the company perhaps best known for its Mosaic dashboard product, has found a new home with Renaissance Learning , a Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. The company claims to service a third of U.S.

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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2018

The message reads: “TenMarks will no longer be available after the 2018-2019 school year. She emailed the company to learn that it was not. A company spokesperson wrote via email that “after a thorough review of TenMarks, we’ve made the difficult decision to no longer offer this service after June 30, 2019.” education strategy.

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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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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

The Ox years are: 1925, 1937, 1949, 1961, 1973, 1985, 1997, 2009, 2021 3. 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030), you are likely to be a person who is loyal, loves to snuggle, is attentive to details, and loves company. It is often associated with honesty, hard-work, respect, diligence, and adaptability.

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Mobile Learning Mobility Groups Company 91

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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techlearning

MAY 17, 2018

The 2018 National KidWind Challenge Champions are: ? The teams from both the middle school and high school divisions with the highest energy output, most innovative turbine design, and greatest demonstrated knowledge of wind power were named the 2018 National KidWind Challenge Champions. “We

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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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Company Video Broadband Report 92

Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

in 2018-19. India Skills Report-2018 finds that employability across disciplines is just 45%, with engineering and pharmacy graduates the most employable, while those from general three-year programmes falls short of the expected standards. Postgraduate enrolments have more than doubled since 2009-10. in 2014-15 to 26.3

Education 92

Education System Report Industry 92

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. Degree inflation.

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Company Survey Report Training 112

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 4, 2020

His works focus on the implications of globalization and technology on education. He is the author of 24 books and several hundred articles about technology, learning, business, and human progress. link] Howard Blumenthal created and produced the PBS television series, Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego?

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Conference Education Differentiated Instruction Learning 36

Edsurge

JUNE 10, 2019

The experimental institution, called Quest to Learn , opened its doors in 2009 and became the subject of many books and articles. By 2018, about half of the institute’s revenues came from its new services business, she estimates. When you do a fee-for-service model, there’s always a little bit of hustling for business development.

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Game-Based Learning Pearson Training Report 142

eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2015

This marks a major expansion of Microsoft’s YouthSpark program, the company’s effort to get young people hooked on computer science and build a larger, more diverse talent pool for the technology industry. Nadella championed the idea of connecting students with the technology they use every day.

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Microsoft Industry Company Facebook 40

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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Survey Laptops Dropout Report 139

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. Earning a profit.

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Data Dropout Company Report 108

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Alexa Bihner, Ryder’s mother, first noticed these symptoms in her son in late 2018. and then guides them through a set of breathing techniques from Conscious Discipline , an approach to social-emotional learning that TIP has been using with the children since around 2009. Alexa Bihner and Ryder put away toys before bed time.

Training 182

Training Classroom Report Groups 182

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2017

Aurice Blanton, a senior at Chicago Technology Academy, looks over his schedule during a month-long internship at CNA Insurance last May. Blanton, a high school senior, was interning for the firm’s information technology group. Linnea Garrett, Chicago Technology Academy school director. So, I’ll only reach for this low bar.’ ”.

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Edsurge

MAY 13, 2020

Unicorns don’t exist, except as an analogy for private companies supposedly worth at least $1 billion. But Glotzbach’s point is that camels are hardy and steady—just as he hopes his company can be. With this latest fundraise, the San Francisco-based company has raised $62 million in venture capital to date.

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Udemy Company Coursera Data 189

Edsurge

JULY 1, 2020

To many educators, Casap may be best known as a marquee headliner at education events, delivering rousing speeches about the future of learning and the role of technology. Shortly after Casap started, he met with officials at Arizona State University and asked them what their biggest technology pain points were. That would soon change.

Google 141

Google Chromebook Education Company 141

MindShift

MAY 1, 2019

Norton & Company. procrastination, disruptiveness, disordered eating, cutting, drinking, violence, taking drugs, technological addiction, and so on—?have Hoeksema, & Schouten, 2009). 2014; Spear, 2009). Used with permission of the publisher, W. Skillful Responding: The Mindful Way of Dealing with Challenges.

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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. He received the Presidential Awards for Excellence in Mathematics and Science Teaching (PAEMST) in 2009 for mathematics from California. Seven steps for adapting technology to the classroom. Opening Graphic.

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iPad Assessment Moodle Company 223

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 18, 2020

They own The Wonderful Company, the $4.6 The company is also the world’s biggest processors of almonds and pistachios. Lynda Resnick, owner of The Wonderful Company on the charter schools she and her husband have opened in California’s Central Valley. Until December 2018, Wonderful workers earned a minimum wage of $11 an hour.

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Company Report Course Study 92

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. STEM is short for science, technology, engineering and math.) In the summer of 2018, Schneider worked with the U.S. Photo: Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. No surfboard styles.

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STEM Report Conference Study 110

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 startup launched its pilot program in October 2018 and claims it saves parents hours of research and simplifies the process of saving for college.

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iPhone Company Android Data 62

MindShift

DECEMBER 11, 2018

STEM is short for science, technology, engineering and math.) 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.

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STEM Report Conference Study 34

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. Competing with them could create political headaches.

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Broadband Policies Company Common Core 110

Hack Education

MAY 18, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. 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.

Education 49

Education Company MOOC Report 49

Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. SeanMcElwee) April 11, 2018. ” Via MIT Technology Review : “ DNA tests for IQ are coming, but it might not be smart to take one.” ” Via Campus Technology : “ NYC Data Science Academy Launches Online Bootcamp.”

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Education Facebook Edmodo OER 44

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Content and Curriculum Creator, Project Explorer Creating OER-s and Interactive STEM Applications in Mathematics Higher Education , Lucie Mingla Math Educator, New York City College of Technology, CUNY Cross-cultural alignments, fertilization, differentiation: Bridging the gaps through technology , Melda N. Dr. Schell, Ed.D.,

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Predictions that were consistently wrong.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

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.” A PDF of its 2018 California edition for sixth through eighth graders shows that climate change is mentioned more than 600 times.

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Pearson Guidelines Company Study 128

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2017

This is part one of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” Last year, I started this series – my annual review of the year in education technology – with an article on wishful thinking. Flying cars are coming, and you’ll be able to get a nanodegree from Udacity in the subject by 2018.

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Technology Education Facebook Social Media 71