Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

The E-rate Category 2 program has been a game changer for school districts across America looking to upgrade their internal networks. Since 2015, 83% of school districts nationwide have received federal E-rate Category 2 funding — a dramatic increase from 14% between 2011 and 2014. Current program set up.

E-rate 40

E-rate Broadband Report Libraries 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 13, 2016

If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. But despite the compelling nature of this "Netflix of Education" vision, it can encourage a misleading view of personalized learning. Do Learners Really Know Best?

Education 60

Education Udemy EdTech E-rate 60

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

From the very start of digital education, the big question has always been: ”How can students learn effectively, if they’re not face-to-face with their instructors?” Students enroll in courses seamlessly, with attendance and grades plugged-in to an institution’s central records automatically.

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Online Learning MOOC Learning Coursera 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 23, 2017

As educators, we are constantly evolving. Since 2011, our schools – one charter, one district – have participated in a partnership that demonstrates that when schools step out of their comfort zones they not only can improve student outcomes, but can effect positive change across entire teaching communities.

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E-rate Outcomes Strategy Assessment 53

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Our intent is to provide an honest and updated view of where we are, the real benefits, and the challenges to overcome when using learning analytics as educational technology. Data : Data is the primary analytics asset.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

NeverEndingSearch

JUNE 17, 2019

This post looks at a progression of student thinking (and questioning) about the value of Wikipedia as they move across educational stages. Our study examined the behaviors and choices of 175 student participants, across six educational stages, as they engaged in four tasks in response to a grade-appropriate science research prompt.

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E-rate Wiki Elementary Study 111

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

The 2011 Global Education Conference is also fast approaching: November 14 - 18. In it''s second year, this amazing five-day, 24-hour-a-day event helps educators and students connect with each other and with global education programs all over the world. Last year we had presentations from 62 countries.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. Not this specific conversation, of course, but ones like it.

E-rate 120

E-rate Elementary Education Report 120

Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Each week, I gather a wide variety of links to education and education technology articles. All this feeds the review I write each December on the stories we are told about the future of education. National) Education Politics. King to be the assistant secretary of postsecondary education.”

Education 46

Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business. Why, schools of course.

Technology 40

Technology Education Common Core Company 40

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. It works well, that is, if you disregard student data privacy and security.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

APRIL 28, 2017

Education Politics. Via The New York Times : “ Trump Orders Review of Education Policies to Strengthen Local Control.” ” “ What does Trump’s executive order on education do? ” Via The Washington Post : “ Education Department relaxes financial aid process in the absence of IRS tool.”

Education 47

Education E-rate Company Kaplan 47

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 16, 2016

Education Politics. ” Another Department of Education release : an update to the College Scorecard. ” Another Department of Education release : an update to the College Scorecard. “ California vs. Massachusetts education ballot question politics” by Sherman Dorn. Education in the Courts.

Education 40

Education Report MOOC E-rate 40

Hack Education

MARCH 24, 2017

Education Politics. “Former Lobbyist With For-Profit Colleges Quits Education Department ,” ProPublica reports. That’s Taylor Hansen who was a lobbyist for Career Education Colleges and Universities. ” That’s the Great Lakes Higher Education Corporation and TG. .”

Education 52

Education Coursera Robotics E-rate 52

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Census Bureau data. Overall, the state department of education calculates that 61 percent of Sioux City students qualify for free or reduced-price lunch, a standard federal measure of student poverty. And, as the year went on, his earlier education at a private Catholic school in Ecuador served him well. But that’s changing.

E-rate 99

E-rate Elementary Report Study 99

Hack Education

JUNE 2, 2017

(National) Education Politics. From the Department of Education press release : “ Secretary DeVos Releases Statement on President Trump ’s Decision to Withdraw the U.S. ” For a Secretary of Education to speak on this is odd, at best. State and Local) Education Politics. Immigration and Education.

Education 48

Education MOOC Report Company 48

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 15, 2017

Yet the long-term benefits of preschool — including higher high-school graduation rates and job salaries, better self-control and fewer arrests — are linked to quality programs that students attended for a year or more. Steven Barnett, senior co-director of the National Institute for Early Education Research at Rutgers University.

E-rate 67

E-rate Elementary Study Report 67

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Board of Education school-segregation decision, Williams saw a post on Facebook shared by an old high-school friend she knew from her days playing trumpet in the Gardendale marching band: The newly empowered Gardendale Board of Education would be meeting in a few hours. Related: The only A-rated, majority-black district in Mississippi.

Education 111

Education Report Data E-rate 111

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 4, 2016

This story is the last story in a six-part series about how little the United States invests in the education of young children. Caring for and educating young children are intimately tied together. Hillary Clinton reads “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” to a preschool class at a YMCA in Rochester, New Hampshire on June 15, 2015.

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Policies Advocacy Study E-rate 60