eSchool News

APRIL 21, 2022

Speech-language pathologists, occupational therapists, and behavioral and mental health professionals using PresenceLearning’s proprietary platform now have access to an enhanced digital library featuring a curated collection of more than 160 content pieces from Highlights’ extensive catalog. About PresenceLearning. PresenceLearning, Inc.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2020

The term comes from the physical devices that other companies used to sell, where students literally pressed buttons to respond to multiple-choice questions. The Toronto-based company once relied on textbook publishers to distribute its technology. To date, the company has raised $105 million in venture capital.

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Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Other consortiums include TCS Education System , an integrated, nonprofit system founded in 2009, that allows schools to act collaboratively with shared services organizations. To Antioch, it’s a refocus on adult learners and a way to keep growing relationships with companies.

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Neo LMS

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

For instance, Osso VR is a virtual reality technology company founded on the principle of training surgeons with real world skills that can be directly applied when in the operating room. The Kudan Elementary School in downtown Tokyo organized the first robot teacher testing as far back as 2009. They are patient and unbiased.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 20, 2021

Since 2016, a California company has set out to make Montessori mainstream through building and acquiring a network of schools and technologies, and offering professional development programs to prepare future Montessori teachers and leaders. based company has raised $70 million in venture capital. To date, the Lake Forest, Calif.-based

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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

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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 3, 2021

He now makes more than $100,000 as a project lead for a company that installs wind turbines. More than 60 percent of the construction workers who lost their jobs from 2007 to 2009 never returned to the industry, said Michael Ibrahim, an assistant professor of civil engineering at California State University, Los Angeles.

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A Principal's Reflections

DECEMBER 22, 2013

I will be the first one to admit that the learning environments and spaces at New Milford High School looked nothing like this prior to 2009. Thanks to social media and the real-time Internet we all have access to design elements and ideas to transform schools into institutions where students use real-world tools to do real-world work.

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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

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

JANUARY 23, 2020

Since 2009, Omidyar Network has invested $200 million in 100 educational for-profit and nonprofit organizations, according to Klement. the fund will continue to support education-to-career pathways for parents, and quality early-learning tools and access to childcare programs. They include Andela, Khan Academy and Code.org. In the U.S.,

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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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Kathy Schrock

JULY 6, 2020

IPEVO P2V CAMERA (2009) __ OVERVIEW Fast forward to mid-2020, and IPEVO has just released their 8th gen model, the newly updated IPEVO VZ-R HDMI/USB document camera. IPEVO offers two free software programs to support this: Visualizer and Visualizer LTSE (accessibility software to use with the document camera). x 4.25” x 11.85” (11.6

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

In 2011, the company launched myON as a digital service with roughly 1,000 digital titles on the platform. Much of the momentum behind myON’s launch was spurred by the popularity of iPads, recalls Todd Brekhus, myON’s President, who joined Capstone in 2009 to expand its digital offerings.

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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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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Our mission is simple: create products that give students everywhere access to enjoyable, affordable, and quality test prep. Magoosh started in 2009 with four co-founders and a few computers. Magoosh is an equal opportunity employer and value diversity at our company. Apply Here.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

“Motiv’s mission is to free fleets from fossil fuels, so it’s encouraging to see community outreach merge with emission-free transportation to provide education to families who are unable to access brick and mortar facilities,” said Matt O’Leary, Motiv Chairman and CEO. About Winnebago Industries. Winnebago Industries, Inc. is a leading U.S.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Students for Fair Admissions, which is suing the university for allegedly discriminating against Asian American applicants, will have access to “academic, extracurricular, demographic and other information” from all undergrads who applied to Harvard between the fall 2009 and spring 2015, omitting names and Social Security numbers.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 5, 2015

Through its mPower Piedmont initiative , which began in 2009, all students in grades 4-12 receive a Macbook Air laptop with home Internet access. Access to the product during the spring pilot period may be free, full price, or discounted. from Digital Promise on Vimeo. What’s the technology environment? Who can I ask?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

We’re Asking The Wrong Question | Fast Company → Cathy Davidson writes: "Neither technophobia or technophilia is the right solution for our students. What does it reveal about how these companies imagine teaching and learning. "Just every other aspect of your whole life." The real issue is the process of learning."

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

We’re Asking The Wrong Question | Fast Company → Cathy Davidson writes: "Neither technophobia or technophilia is the right solution for our students. What does it reveal about how these companies imagine teaching and learning. "Just every other aspect of your whole life." The real issue is the process of learning."

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EdTech Industry Student Data Privacy Social Media 150

The CoolCatTeacher

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. After her death in March of 2009 I decided to see how I could use my expertise to help busy educators and parents hone their skills and knowledge. He computes all the time.

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2017

That’s the question Top Hat has been hearing from college students and faculty, and why the Toronto company has decided to take on the publishing business. The latest cash infusion is an extension of the company’s $22.5 The company quietly launched the marketplace to a private group of users in fall 2016.

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Linways Technologies

DECEMBER 3, 2019

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. Employability of our students.

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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

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

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

JANUARY 28, 2019

In July 2009, President Barack Obama announced an ambitious plan to boost employment by 2019. That number won’t reach 60 percent until 2041, according to predictions by the Educational Testing Service, a nonprofit educational testing company that administers the GRE among other tests. Marcus reports the U.S. Today, the U.S.

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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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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Access to the identities of staff and students is one of the main attractions for hackers. Providing hosted services rather than giving districts the software to install on their own servers is better for edtech companies; it makes their products easier and cheaper to deploy and maintain.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2023

New schools are being built every few years to keep pace with a surge in families moving to the area due to its proximity to technology and engineering firm Sandia National Laboratories and new business hubs for companies such as Intel and NTX Bio. Enrollment fell to about 600 students for this school year.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2021

What students won’t see in the promotional materials or when they register, however, is that the programs are being managed by a private, for-profit company called Noodle that is being paid $12,000 to $22,000 per month , per program, plus $88 per credit hour, per student, according to a list of fees disclosed by Noodle.

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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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Edsurge

MARCH 30, 2017

That is certainly the case for Alex Kajitani, the 2009 California Teacher of the Year, who lead a session on “Creating a Culture of Compassion” at the conference. SEL is the core of what companies want.” Taking away a kid’s access to technology is like taking away part of their identity,” she explains. “It

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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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