The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

Back in June, the former CEO of Bleacher Report agreed to have coffee with Brett and David Kopf, the co-founders of Remind. Yet he was struck by Remind’s mission, along with the “immense capability and market positioning that the company has carved in the education ecosystem.” They’ve also raised more than $59.5

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JANUARY 23, 2017

Leading one education company is stressful enough for most people. That’s the challenge that John Katzman, one of the most recognized names in the business, has embarked on with The Noodle Companies. As founder and CEO of The Noodle Companies, he’ll decide how to allocate the funds. But try doing four—simultaneously.

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JUNE 16, 2020

To continue that effort, the company announced its new CEO, Steve Daly, will start his first day of work on July 1. Daly will succeed former CEO Dan Goldsmith, who steered what was a publicly-traded company through a protracted and contested sales process to Thoma Bravo—a drama that began in December 2019.

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LMS Company Software Industry 87

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MARCH 24, 2019

Some of the conclusions may not come as a surprise in the Omidyar Network’s report on what works in scaling education technology in different regions worldwide. Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. Take Chile, for instance. 75) and China (54). should copy Chile.

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Technology EdTech Education Mobility 141

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MARCH 14, 2019

million such openings have been added since 2010. The new roles require new digital skills—with design tools like Siemens NX and CATIA, and companies struggle to find qualified candidates, according to Cluster’s founder and CEO, Kim Taylor. The company is based in Los Angeles, home to many of these companies.

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JULY 19, 2023

As we’ve reported in the past, some teachers have clearly expressed that tech tools should support and not replace their expertise. Between 2010 and 2021, the share of white non-Hispanic children fell to 45 percent of public school students, while the share of Hispanic children grew to comprise 28 percent. Who Is Edtech Made for?

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JUNE 23, 2020

Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. Market researchers shared the latest reports about the edtech landscape and opined where sales opportunities were. “It All the big companies wanted to find out who the new ones were.

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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

APRIL 18, 2023

Credit: Tomohiro Ohsumi for The Hechinger Report University Hall, the main lecture building at International Christian University. Formerly part of the Nakajima Aircraft Company, the building houses classrooms and the Institute for Educational Research and Service. million students, from 2010 through this year.

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SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Investors seeking to fund tutoring companies usually look for those that target massive markets, have scalable tech-enabled products and focus on highly-sought skills. Since 2010, nearly 99 percent of disclosed investment capital in the tutoring space has gone to companies in these three countries. and 12 times that of India.

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Company Guidelines Analysis Report 63

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AUGUST 7, 2020

Except that Ashford’s parent company will end up paying millions to Arizona to make it happen, leading New America’s Kevin Carey, the group’s director of education policy programs, to argue in a widely shared Tweet that “it’s not really a purchase at all.” percent of the revenue from the campus with Zovio, the company that owned Ashford.

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Kaplan Company Report Trends 159

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OCTOBER 24, 2018

Then a couple weeks later came the hangover: the company board said it had uncovered evidence of financial misconduct and would abruptly shut down the company. John McIntire, who is chairman of Yogome’s board, is currently acting CEO of the company and overseeing the liquidation of assets. Another 10 staff based in the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. Whittenberg has been around since 2010, when Greenville County Schools opened it as a magnet school in an area that is historically low-income and majority Black. Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report. “We Credit: Ariel Gilreath/The Hechinger Report.

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Industry Elementary Education Robotics 130

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NOVEMBER 7, 2018

That’s so 2010. Their hope is that these programs will help pave the way toward the kind of supportive environment that education technology companies need to survive. Edtech startup incubators? That’s the conclusion reached by Barbara (“Bobbi”) Kurshan, a long-time veteran of the education technology world. She earned an Ed.D.

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EdTech Company Software Secondary 122

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FEBRUARY 27, 2018

What does it mean to report on education technology from a student lens? I was watching a video that you did from a Ted Talk a while ago, back in 2010, and you were talking about transforming higher education institutions by getting conservative institutions to embrace technology. Has it evolved with your reporting?

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OCTOBER 5, 2016

But when funding dries up and profits remain elusive, companies have to make tough cuts. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. He adds: “As a venture-funded company, there’s been a decision to get to profitability in the next nine to 12 months.” billion in U.S.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114

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DECEMBER 21, 2021

We were in the early innings of what I argued at that time was more of a supply-side-driven phenomenon: universities and companies were experimenting with new offerings, and the groundwork was being laid for a more digitally-oriented, shorter-form credentialing future.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

Among college students who graduated between 2010 and 2016, 61 percent visited their institutions’ career services office as students, the highest percentage in any decade since as far back as the 1940s, according to Gallup , a research and analytics company. Related: What if we hired for skills, not degrees?

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Social Media Survey Report Company 101

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 7, 2016

But unlike conventional tuition-reimbursement benefits, which many companies eliminated during the recession, the new programs increasingly limit students to taking courses from specific providers — often for-profit and online universities and colleges with poor graduation rates. One company saved $1.29

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2022

Credit: Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. Among those most affected: children from low-income families, according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center, which reports “unprecedented” declines in the number of students from high-poverty and low-income high schools who immediately go on to higher education.

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AUGUST 12, 2020

peaked at the end of the last recession in 2010 , and has been declining ever since. A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” Community college enrollment in the U.S.

Digital Badges 211

Digital Badges MOOC Trends Industry 211

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NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. businesses reported difficulty finding appropriately trained workers, up from 32 percent reported in 2015. According to Manpower’s annual labor shortage survey , 45 percent of U.S.

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Udemy Coursera Company Training 81

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 29, 2022

The following report is part of collaboration between NBCNews.com and The Hechinger Report focused on examining Black and Latino enrollment in flagship universities. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report. Credit: Meredith Kolodner/The Hechinger Report.

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Report System Course Accessibility 98

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JANUARY 11, 2019

So when the field really started expanding around 2010, Madsen, who works near Portland, Ore., Madsen, who advises software companies these days, is still concerned by that attitude, and about how he sees it impacting industry practices—and society more broadly. One question is whether that will bring change to data-science curricula.

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Data Course Company Analysis 138

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JULY 22, 2019

At its peak in 2010, the dominant for-profit, the University of Phoenix, boasted an enrollment of more than 470,000 students, nearly four times as much as the largest of the current so-called mega-universities. But the Scorecard will still be incomplete, as it will count only those students who receive federal financial aid.

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Outcomes Comparison Report Survey 112

EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2017

Government Accountability Office report. In 2010, Congress passed the Healthy, Hunger-Free Kids Act. Some members of Congress who had supported the legislation began to criticize government intrusion into schools, and food companies that became fearful of falling profits began to lobby for delaying the changes. Direct Effects.

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Guidelines Study Report Company 199

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

In 2010, I completed an MA in Applied Linguistics with a certification in TESOL (Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages) as well as earning an ELL (English Language Learner) endorsement for K-8 students. What were two things that excited you about working with the company? About Inkeri Martin.

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DECEMBER 1, 2017

As more nonprofit colleges and universities bet their futures on online offerings, many are turning to for-profit companies to help create and advertise their new digital degree programs. There, he helped 2U raise nearly $100 million, and left shortly before the company went public.

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Company Pearson Report Course 70

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

In particular, many students, for whom these efforts intend to protect, are still unaware of their rights when it comes to how their online footprints are tracked—whether by third-party companies or sometimes the school districts themselves. The concerns raised in the report are not hypothetical nor without merit.

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Social Media Student Data Privacy Facebook Data 114

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SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In the 1980s, researchers developed an adaptive-tutoring math system used in high schools and colleges, and the tool was spun out as an independent company in 1998. Since then the company has swapped hands between other private-equity firms and private investors. He declined to share whether the company is turning a profit.

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EdTech Learning Adaptive Learning Company 62

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JUNE 29, 2016

Five edtech companies emerged recently from Boston's LearnLaunch accelerator, tackling issues that include learning to code, hiring and collecting social emotional data. For instance, using its iNoted system , the company pings school users with questions such as "Today, how much did adults who work in your school treat students with respect?”

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Company EdTech Microsoft Data 61

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MARCH 15, 2018

The “Netflix for education” analogy has become somewhat of a cliché for edtech companies using student data to recommend anything from courses to textbooks. Overall student graduation rates rose from 31 percent in 2010 to 36 percent in 2014, for example. Private companies also took notice. CLARKSVILLE, Tenn. — percent to 33.8

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. The Puerto Rican rate is from 2009-2010, the latest available in a territory whose government produces few up-to-date statistics, and which federal counts often don’t include; experts say it’s likely only gotten lower since then. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2021

MacKenzie Brackett demonstrates a toothbrush robot wiring technique to three troop members attending via Zoom Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Danielle Dreilinger for The Hechinger Report. million in 2010 to 1.7 million girls in 2019 , according to annual reports. million members said.

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Robotics STEM Report Mobility 110

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MAY 9, 2017

Almost all of the PreK to 12 programming clustered in the Little America hotel, while the post-secondary, workforce training and company suites clustered in the more opulent Grand America across the street. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer.

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Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 78

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. trillion worth of outstanding national student loan debt , the College Board reports; each owes three times more , on average, than an undergraduate, according to the Urban Institute. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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