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4 lessons learned about AI in 2023

eSchool News

Each year I share my predictions about these trends. This revolution hit the education industry in earnest in 2011, with the launch of the Chromebook to compete with Apple’s iPad. Recent survey data shows that 90 percent of secondary students are part of a 1:1 device program. Here’s a look at my 2023 predictions.)

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

For each of the three primary (equity-focused) federal educational technology programs authorized by Congress since the passage of the 1994 revision to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (ESEA), below I provide details on the programs’: legislative authorization (i.e., FY 2011 $100,000,000 (President Obama’s request: $0).

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More Latino students are earning high school diplomas as they wrestle the stubborn equity gap. Next stop, college

The Hechinger Report

This is an important positive trend, and now we have an opportunity to build on this success to ensure high school graduates are also academically prepared for post-secondary education beyond high school. Latino students have high post-secondary aspirations.”. Related: More students are graduating but that’s not the whole story.

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Fewer Deals, More Money: U.S. Edtech Funding Rebounds With $1.2 Billion in 2017

Edsurge

edtech investments in 2011. Yet at 126 deals, the number of fundraises in 2017 is also at its lowest since 2011. These diverging patterns are reflected in the graph below, with the upward trend in funding total (green bars) and downward slope in dealflow (red lines). billion invested), since EdSurge began tracking U.S.

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Predictions of Print Textbooks’ Death Remain Greatly Exaggerated

Edsurge

From 2011 to 2014, U.S. higher education courseware business despite gains in digital—all because of secondary textbook market’s impact. “But now I can report that these tools have been adopted in thousands of U.S. classrooms from kindergarten through high school.” billion to $3.3

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Blogs that I read regularly (top blog list for 2011)

Connecting 2 the World

Although she is half way around the world, it is amazing how relevant her blog is to what happens in k-12 (primary and secondary school) here in the US. Many of her posts deal with integrating technology into primary and secondary education on a practical, practitioner's view point. Jane Hart: J ane's E-Learning Pick of the day.

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DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: The human cost of college debt that becomes “purgatory”

The Hechinger Report

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. If Bowie can buck this trend and be successful, he’d not only be helping out his family but the state. And most students who leave school don’t make it back.

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