Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

LMS 96

LMS Blackboard Company Moodle 96

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 based company that sells core curricula. Open Up Resources is among the other companies also selling products around the materials.

Kaplan 91

Kaplan Company Education Libraries 91

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

Kaplan 159

Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 159

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 18, 2016

million to a company focused on building the skills of English-language learners. Launched in 2011, Ellevation describes itself as offering online management and instructional tools focused on building collaboration among educators and helping schools meet the evolving demand’s of the nation’s surging ELL student population.

Company 40

Company Facebook Survey Industry 40

EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Meeting this year’s students “where they are” is going to look different than it did for last year’s class. When you’re the company behind those classroom solutions that are either deemed essential or scrapable at the end of the year, it’s imperative to keep a finger on the pulse of those conversations districts are having on an annual basis.

Symantec 127

Symantec How To EdTech Learning 127

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 1, 2020

Some basic current practices include grade-level team members orienting teachers who are new to the grade-level; participation in workshops/webinars provided by the curriculum company; regular teacher-teacher observations, feedback sessions and mentoring. Meet Mark Rogers. Teacher licensure and standards vary from state to state.

Data 144

Data Report Outcomes Groups 144

Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2016

According to data compiled by Quartz, the percentage of females enrolled in the discipline has actually declined, from nearly 40 percent in the 1980s to under 20 percent today. Gender is just one part of the diversity problem confronting many technology companies today. And I want to run a video game company.”.

Meeting 60

Meeting Broadband Industry Education 60

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

(GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — Frontline Education , a leading provider of administration software purpose-built for educators in K-12, today released a comprehensive year-to-date innovation summary that underscores the company’s commitment to anticipating and meeting the evolving needs of school districts across the country.

Software 52

Software Education Data Report 52

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

Purdue University’s online arm offers a certificate for people who want to become legal secretaries or assistants; new education department data shows that three years after completion, their median salary is $18,495. Related: Trucking companies train you on the job. Credit: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report. Just don’t try to quit.

Policies 100

Policies Analysis Data Training 100

Edsurge

MAY 12, 2017

The publisher co-led the New York City-based company’s $33 million Series D round in October 2011, hailed at the time as a strategic investment and a major vote of confidence in Knewton’s potential. The retrenchment delivers a setback to Knewton, for whom Pearson was the first—and most visible—partner. content providers.

Knewton 78

Knewton Pearson Adaptive Learning Company 78

EdNews Daily

JUNE 16, 2016

Meet the career and college-planning app, Schoold.co. From 2006-2011, I supported and advised over 2,500 teachers. Government can garnish wages and withhold tax refunds to meet student loan debt requirements. By Robyn D. You can now hold the future in your hand before this phrase comes to life. in Curriculum and Instruction.

Game-Based Learning 181

Game-Based Learning Android Robotics Data 181

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

To alleviate some of their worries, he’s trying to meet students where they’re at—online and on mobile devices—and upgrade the entire student financial aid process while doing so. based company back in 2011, Scoresby’s been driving towards this goal in a number of ways. Since founding the Gilbert, Ariz.-based

Company 67

Company Mobility System Tools 67

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Not long after the search engine company was founded in 1998, psychologists began to wonder how the ability to have so much information instantly available was changing our brains. A seminal 2011 paper established the so-called “Google effect,” our tendency to forget information that we can easily look up on the internet.

Study 88

Study Google Assessment Accessibility 88

Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. They have upended the industry and how it’s reflected in the events that cater to industry companies, investors, and executives at every level from preschool to workforce learning. K-12 classrooms as a 1:1 mobile device. K-12 Events U.S.

Industry 104

Industry Conference EdTech Company 104

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The institute, which opened last year in borrowed space with sweeping views of Casco Bay in Portland’s fast-developing East End, is offering master’s degrees , certificates and professional training in computer science, data analytics, artificial intelligence, biotechnology, cybersecurity and other subjects.

Report 116

Report Dropout System Company 116

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

Personalized learning has a lack of really clear data points, really clear success stories,” said Hilah Barbot, science and technology director for the national charter school network KIPP, who worked for several years as a teacher and administrator at KIPP New Orleans, overseeing their technology initiatives. DeVonté Trask, 11.

Personalized Learning 99

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 26, 2011

This session directly addresses the need to develop and implement real-time employee training assessment strategies specifically designed to meet targeted business objectives. Utilizing an actual high-tech, consumer electronic Fortune 100 company renamed ''Orange Inc.''

Digital Divide 46

Digital Divide Wiki Common Core iPad 46

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion. Repayment rates for loans are lower for students who withdraw from college, like Bowie, compared to those who graduate, according to federal data.

Dropout 90

Dropout Study Report System 90

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Ward barely spoke for the rest of the meeting. Stepping into the hallway after the meeting, Ward could no longer hold back her tears. Michigan’s other state schools that reported data awarded an average of just $2,600 per student. Yet, at the 10 other state schools with available data, the average student gets $1,800.

Report 114

Report Policies Meeting System 114

Wired Campus

MARCH 10, 2015

Students would meet in virtual classrooms where they would discuss course material using videoconferencing technology. It is the second professional school at Yale to try the “blended” model for a graduate program, following the Yale School of Nursing, which opened a partially online doctoral degree in 2011.

Coursera 28

Coursera MOOC Course Company 28

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

“It was about as big a mess as you can ever imagine,” says James Henry Russell, who left his previous role as superintendent of Texarkana Independent School District to become president of the college in 2011. While the college’s bottom-line shrank, data shows the technology wasn’t helping students, either.

Software 74

Software System Technology Data 74

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

More of these kids were being removed from their home due to parental drug use, according to data from the Adoption and Foster Care Analysis and Reporting System. . That’s the thing that shocked me more than anything,” said O’Brien, who is now retired after decades working at Eli Lilly and Company, the pharmaceutical company.

Report 111

Report System Survey Meeting 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

The Title I program identifies what fiscal resources schools need, but Congress hasn’t allocated enough resources to meet those needs. The movement manifests itself in corporate tax breaks, which don’t require companies to contribute their fair share to state taxes, a significant part of districts’ budgets.

Secondary 67

Secondary Report System Advocacy 67

MindShift

DECEMBER 16, 2019

college enrollment went up was 2011, at the tail end of the recession. These factors — and the data that support them — find their way into Pérez’s meetings with the budget team at Trinity College. Don’t see the graphic above? Click here. Why is this happening? The last time U.S. And it’s paying off.

Data 42

Data Trends Company Training 42

MindShift

MAY 24, 2017

years after graduating,” says Andrew Nichols, director of higher education research and data analytics at the Education Trust, a nonprofit. Teranishi says that they’re treated as a homogenous group even though there are many ethnic subgroups, and that there’s not enough data tracking subgroups.

Policies 49

Policies Data Outcomes Report 49

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them.

Industry 66

Industry Report Study Survey 66

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2017

In just over a decade, 20 independent education companies have raised more than $2.7 Collectively, 116 directors serve on the boards of these privately-held companies. As much as one-third of edtech companies started during that time have a female CEO or founder. See our full list of companies and board members here. .

Company 231

Company EdTech Industry Trends 231

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

million since the last peak, in the fall of 2011 , according to the National Student Clearinghouse Research Center. DePauw University last year started promising job placement or a free additional semester to graduates who meet certain guidelines but don’t have a job within six months.

Dropout 73

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 73

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

In its application for its 2011 grant, Portland pledged to move the entire district to a proficiency-based diploma. It’s a ton of data entry, but none of it has appeared on students’ report cards, which still include traditional numerical grades. And, like Lee-Winship, she finds the data entry meaningless.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 24, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. Audrey is a writer for the NPR education technology blog MindShift , for the data section of O’Reilly Radar , and for the Edutopia blog. And this week, the AAP released a new report, this time with more data, to back up those recommendations.

Khan Academy 44

Khan Academy Education STEM Blackboard 44

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 10, 2018

Meet Next Generation Science Standards. And instead of just going through the three or four questions for the warm-up, and asking students if they have trouble, I can look at the data. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

iPad 223

iPad Assessment Moodle Company 223

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

For-profit schools, such as Salter and others owned by its parent company, Premier Education Group, have zeroed in on this market. The company posted more than $175 million in profits between 2004 and 2014, according to a 2016 lawsuit filed by a former company CEO who alleged that he was owed bonus pay.

Company 109

Company Data Outcomes Report 109

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. Some employees hoped the company could turn around and stayed on without pay. “We Planet3 found its biggest backer in Rob Roy, CEO of Las Vegas-area data center services company Switch, which invested $10 million in the company in 2015.

Education 78

Education Company Chegg Pearson 78

Edsurge

AUGUST 14, 2017

Data interoperability should be invisible. These conveniences, which we often take for granted, require data to pass through different systems and servers. In education, however, data interoperability between applications is sometimes missing. The demand wasn’t always there. No’ is no longer an appropriate answer.

Report 67

Report Khan Academy Data LMS 67

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

In 2012, the graduation rate for men and women was 7 and 16 percent, respectively, according to data from the National Center for Education Statistics. You meet people who you don't think you would click with, but because you had something in common, it brings different backgrounds together.”

Education 104

Education Company Study Libraries 104

The 21st Century Principal

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

which describes a rhetorical study by Rachel Gabriel and Jessica Nina Lester which examined the discourse during a meeting of the Tennessee Teacher Evaluation Advisory or TEAC from March 2010 through April 2011. What are those limitations? 2) Value-added measures are the only "objective" option.

Policies 79

Policies Study Meeting Data 79

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Since 2011, families have been able to apply to any of the city’s 72 public elementary schools, submitting a ranked list of choices. Koehler and her staff hope promising data will encourage parents to hang in there, while a disappointing forecast will open their minds to another school in SFUSD. The principal is really involved.”

E-rate 116

E-rate Elementary Education Report 116