eSchool News

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

The Council of Administrators of Special Education (CASE) has re-endorsed Classworks® for an additional three years. The CASE Executive Committee designated the award-winning platform as a CASE-endorsed product that delivers high-quality assessment and instructional resources to special education teachers and students.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2019

Data scientist Mark Madsen has been programming and crunching data long before buzzwords like artificial intelligence and machine learning were common. So when the field really started expanding around 2010, Madsen, who works near Portland, Ore., One question is whether that will bring change to data-science curricula.

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A Principal's Reflections

OCTOBER 23, 2022

Goodwin & Miller (2012) provided this summary: In Marzano, Pickering, and Pollock's 2001 meta-analysis, McREL researchers found an effect size for feedback of 0.76, which translates roughly into a 28-percentile point difference in average achievement (Beesley & Apthorp, 2010; Dean, Pitler, Hubbell, & Stone, 2012). Goodwin, B.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift The latest warning sign comes from college admissions test maker ACT, which compared students’ ACT test scores with their self-reported high school grades between 2010 and 2022. A’s on the rise Percentage of ACT test takers with a grade point average of A, B, or C from 2010 to 2022 by subject.

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Digital Promise

JULY 16, 2019

Once an educational technology (edtech) tool is in a school, the hard work is just beginning due to a number of potential hurdles and challenges that leadership and educators need to overcome. The majority of students said that they very often or often used technology for research, writing papers, and taking tests.

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Edsurge

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. By many measures, the country’s education technology ecosystem is small.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

Secretary of Education Richard W. Yet, understanding this history is crucial to understanding the meandering path we are on with respect to determining the best and appropriate future role for the federal government with respect to educational technology – a task I have set out for myself in a series of posts on this very topic.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2020

Higher education is heading into the eye of the tornado. Now, more than ever, as educators and institutions, we need to recenter ourselves on our why —not on how we get through this or when this storm will be over. In education, we are really good at focusing on what and how and when, at solving the problems before us.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2022

We’re familiar with the higher education headlines. The world’s complexity has been catapulted to a new level, and higher education is feeling the repercussions like never before. It simply accelerated a problem for higher education that already existed. The data here is about as conclusive as it gets. They want jobs.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 6, 2020

One of the peculiar things about higher education is that it runs in the opposite direction of the economy. million students in the fall of 2010. Related: Federal data shows 3.9 Ironically, funding for education plummeted. Completion rates declined for students who enrolled in college during 2008, 2009 and 2010.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

On October 7, seven talented edtech entrepreneurs will take center stage at the final event of the 2019 Milken-Penn GSE Education Business Plan Competition (EBPC). Michael Golden: At PennGSE, we have a long history of inspiring and cultivating innovation at all levels of education, from K-12 through adult learning. Absolutely.

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EdTech Education Mobility Company 121

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2024

” Credit: Photo provided by Jo Boaler Jo Boaler is a professor at the Stanford Graduate School of Education with a devoted following of teachers who cheer her call to make math education more exciting. Critics disparaged the findings and hounded her to release her data. Ted Cruz on social media.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2023

Chart from the website of the National Center for Education Statistics. Condition of Education. Department of Education, Institute of Education Sciences. Researchers drilled into the data to try to understand what is going on. Public school teachers are overwhelmingly white but most students are not.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 16, 2022

The ACT study found that high school grades rose between 2010 and 2022 while scores on the ACT fell. The latest is an analysis of more than 4 million high school seniors who took the ACT from 2010 to 2021. Another bad sign is that the grade inflation detected by ACT closely mirrors Department of Education research.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

Those are vital questions for education technology innovators as they build ventures, secure funding and expand their impact. Catalyst @ Penn GSE, a global center for education innovation at the University of Pennsylvania, is passionate about supporting education entrepreneurs. It’s been a wild ride. billion in 2021.

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eSchool News

MARCH 27, 2023

Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice. in linguistics from Stanford University, was a faculty member of the University of California at Berkeley Graduate School of Education from 1974 to 2004. Fillmore is the third recipient of the Dr. Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 5, 2021

Leila Nuland, Managing Director of the K-12 Research Team at Hanover Research, explained how district leaders can compile and utilize data on educational equity. Starting with the Data. To make the process of increasing educational equity manageable, Dr. Nuland recommends viewing it as a three-year process.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2023

Credit: Image provided by Miguel Agyei Bradley is among nearly 700 universities and colleges that, over the last decade, have raised the prices paid by their lowest-income students more than the prices paid by their highest-income ones, according to federal data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. Rice University.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

After completion, I believe that I received a world-class education about teaching Computer Science. Not only did I create a computer science video to help a wider audience of educators ( see below) , but my school now has aligned standards. Education Technology. Education technology is not the same as computer science.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

Over the past 25 years, multiple waves of education technology and innovation have slowly washed into America’s schools and colleges. Join me on a quick tour of the past quarter century in education technology history. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”. the ideology of Silicon Valley [into public schools].”.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 13, 2018

Last time we started to explore the top four challenges facing higher education in the US. from the 2010 cohort. Both the 2010 and 2011 cohorts are still below the pre-recession completion rate of 55,8% (which in itself is still nothing to write home about). Public (two-year) community colleges: 38%. The problem.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 2, 2018

Data from the partnership also showed that students in the community colleges in California were far more likely than other institutions the company works with to report homelessness or financial troubles, according to a report last year on KPCC.

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Data Training Report Course 84

Edsurge

DECEMBER 23, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. Michael Feldstein’s education career spans decades, including stops at SUNY, Oracle, Cengage and e-Literate, where he is now chief accountability officer. But by 2010, LMS selections were increasingly influenced by faculty input.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 26, 2019

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. I define education technology as any tool that supports learning, digital or not. An abacus is an educational technology, as is the slide rule.

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Digital Badges MOOC Technology OER 88

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 19, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Why is this a problem ?

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Technology Data Report EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Why is this a problem ?

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Technology Data Report EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 18, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Why is this a problem ?

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Technology Data Report EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Why is this a problem ?

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Technology Data Report EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Why is this a problem ?

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Technology Data Report EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Why is this a problem ?

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Technology Data Report EdTech 150

EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

million two years earlier, according to national data released in 2018 by Attendance Works. Students who miss 15 days of school a year are considered chronically absent , according to the Department of Education. MORE FROM EDTECH : Analytics and data can have a major impact on student outcomes. Why is this a problem ?

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Technology Data Report EdTech 150

eSchool News

APRIL 18, 2023

The EdTech Awards were established in 2010 to recognize, acknowledge and celebrate the innovators, leaders, and trendsetters in education technology. The annual program shines a spotlight on cool tools, inspiring leaders and innovative trendsetters across the K-12, higher education and skills and workforce sectors.

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EdTech Learning Facebook Data 98

Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2020

This op-ed is part of a series of reflections on the past decade in education technology. In 2005, Sal Khan founded Khan Academy, the online education nonprofit where is now CEO, and in 2014 he founded the Khan Lab School. I made three assumptions back in 2010 that still hold sway today. Today, 99% of U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

Weld North Education, an education company that has long focused on providing digital intervention and supplemental products in the K-12 market, has acquired LearnZillion , a Washington, D.C.-based Weld North Education also offers an English language arts curriculum developed in partnership with the Louisiana Department of Education.

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Kaplan Company Education Libraries 91

eSchool News

MARCH 1, 2023

Osmond has approximately 30 years of experience in K-12 education. He first served as the western regional lead for the company’s Education to Workforce Team program and then led the program’s U.S. He has also led education programs at Microsoft and Novell. Ramani holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.

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Pearson Outcomes Microsoft Company 108

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

My parents always stressed how powerful an education is and how it is the key to success,” Keenan said. Georgia State is one of a growing number of schools that have turned to big data to help them identify students who might be struggling – or soon be struggling – academically so the school can provide support before students drop out.

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Data Dropout Company Report 107

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Residential facilities in Pennsylvania are doing an inadequate job of educating foster children in their care, according to a new report from Children’s Rights and the Education Law Center. It also cites lack of compliance with special education laws and other concerns. Photo: Caroline Preston for The Hechinger Report/HuffPost.

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