The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

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. Critics say there are potential downsides to monitoring student data so closely.

Data 108

Data Dropout Company Report 108

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Tactical student data privacy questions like “What can I do right now?” should be asked by all CIO’s, teachers, administrators and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, student privacy and interoperability. Fruth describes this new data access landscape as a teeter-totter effect. The Balancing Act.

Data 41

Data Accessibility Student Data Privacy Libraries 41

eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2023

MCHS’s leaders sought a new suite of high-quality, standards-aligned digital resources that could quickly be integrated into instruction and were adaptable enough to meet the needs of students’ varying learning styles. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

Social Media 91

Social Media EdTech Secondary Analysis 91

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Focused on meeting the unique needs of each individual student and creating a safe environment where learning has no boundaries, district teachers and administrators partner with members of the community to provide all students with opportunities for lifelong learning in a changing world. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

EdTech 95

EdTech Tools Social Media Professional Learning 95

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. Generally, universities are doing very well financially, so they don’t feel from the data that their world is going to collapse. Traditional universities will find themselves obsolete, unless they adapt.

Secondary 300

Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing. Surveys and sources suggest many college graduates are unprepared for the workforce.

Education 115

Education Outcomes Online Learning System 115

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2023

Make School, a San Francisco-based gaming company turned for-profit educational institution, was already offering a short-term tech boot camp, designed to meet that same goal. At least 75 such partnerships exist between colleges and three of the country’s top boot camp provider companies: edX, ThriveDX and Fullstack Academy.

Company 97

Company Report Outcomes Data 97

Edsurge

MARCH 8, 2019

The annual tradition dates back to 2012, and features early-stage companies showing off the latest efforts to solve intractable problems across the education landscape. The company offers a suite of administrative software to help daycare providers execute a variety of tasks, from managing government subsidies to financial bookkeeping.

Education 95

Education Company EdTech Robotics 95

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later.

Education 217

Education Learning Software Knewton 217

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

Massive open online courses (MOOCs) transfixed higher education in the early 2010s, so much so that The New York Times dubbed 2012 "The Year of the MOOC." rez-Valiente examined six years of data culled from Harvard and MIT's edX initiative and found sub-par MOOC retention and completion rates. Researchers Justin Reich and Jose?

MOOC 148

MOOC Course Video Company 148

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

To date, the New York-based company has raised nearly $16 million. It’s why he and co-founder Daniel Friedman took a different route when starting their company in 2012: making Thinkful coding courses completely online. The idea is also to meet new customers: “These attract existing students and prospective students.”

Industry 74

Industry Company Course Meeting 74

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Here’s a few of the things we noticed on Day 1.

Pearson 80

Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 80

Edsurge

OCTOBER 19, 2017

Making sure a work meets all the requirements takes time, and depends on accurate data, for instance. She and her husband, Ron Gard, founded a company called Limited Times that does the legwork to determine the copyright status of various works. That the data is that picky is a problem.” One of them is Peter B.

Libraries 119

Libraries Software Policies Company 119

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

There’s not a moment of the day that goes by without a Girls Who Code club meeting in some town, some parish or some community center. We taught 20 girls in New York City in 2012. There’s not a moment of the day that goes by without a Girls Who Code club meeting in some town, some parish or some community center.

Education 130

Education Company Examples Technology 130

The Game Agency

JANUARY 9, 2019

A: The Game Agency is a software development company focused on building game-based solutions that make K-College and corporate training more effective. Our games are available in >20,000 schools and used by hundreds of companies including Amazon, Comcast, IBM, Kellogg, PayPal, Philips, Siemens, and Wells Fargo.

Training 40

Training Outcomes Mobility Company 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2018

While the college’s bottom-line shrank, data shows the technology wasn’t helping students, either. Before Perot built his fortune through his information-technology company, Electronic Data Systems, and long before he ran for president as a third-party candidate in 1992, Perot was a student at Texarkana College. says Russell. “I

Software 75

Software System Technology Data 75

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

This approach can enable administrators to differentiate to meet the needs of all their teachers. He has been recognized by EdScoop (EdTech Hero, 2017), SETDA (Leader of the Year, 2013), and Common Sense Media (Educator of the Year, 2012). Bruce holds an M.B.A in public administration from Michigan State University. Join the Community.

Professional Learning 52

Professional Learning Data Future Ready Academic Standards 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. But it’s also up to companies and startups to question their own commissioned research.

Study 60

Study EdTech Tools How To 60

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Andrea, who earned her college degree in English literature in 2012, is a temp in a law firm and drives people around on weekday mornings and through the weekends.

Company 107

Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2022

Community college student Jawanza Corbin in Camden, New Jersey, for example, joined a research group at Stanford that had moved their meetings online. He became Stanford’s first vice provost for online learning in 2012. I’ve used the time to find my path. I haven’t really lost too much.

Learning 80

Learning Course System Groups 80

techlearning

MAY 22, 2018

According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, employment in occupations related to STEM—science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—is projected to grow to more than 9 million between 2012 and 2022. That's an increase of about 1 million jobs over 2012 employment levels.

STEM 40

STEM Resources Company Data 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. There are still a handful of timber companies in Onalaska, but the timber industry in Washington has been declining since World War II. Census data. over that period. “I

Company 111

Company Report Trends Study 111

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Mention edtech, and the first thought that usually comes to mind is collecting data to evaluate students’ progress. Schools and districts need to have a system that collects data on all programs being used so that leadership can get a clearer picture of what’s happening in the classroom. I’m not interested in checking a box.

EdTech 40

EdTech Data Student Data Privacy Libraries 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Steve Rowley, CEO of Acumen Partners, with Michael Campbell, Vice President of Acumen Partners, presented the latest updates on ESSA in the webinar, “ Making Sense of ESSA: What You Need to Know ,” co-hosted by edWeb.net and MCH Strategic Data. ESSA lays out accountabilities that must be tracked by technology and data systems.

Common Core 40

Common Core Pearson Industry Guidelines 40

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Companies and organizations exist to help preschool owners manage payroll, develop education programs and advertise to families. Bolden-Kramer benefits from the support of Wonderschool, a company that helps educators tackle some of these challenges in exchange for a cut of revenue. How typical is Bolden-Kramer’s arrangement?

Training 97

Training Report Company Data 97

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

STEM 40

STEM Analysis Handbook Data 40

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. The hardware on the towers then blasts that connection about 10 miles into the valley below. Photo: Chris Berdik.

Broadband 92

Broadband Digital Divide Accessibility Blackboard 92

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a think tank that evaluates teacher preparation programs, doesn’t collect data related to remote learning or online education, says its director of strategic communications. One struggle is digging through digital resources and “making sure they are meeting the standards” of the state.

Education 213

Education Handbook Course Elementary 213

ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

The company’s engineers and products don’t do any spying themselves; they’re more like a spy’s brain, collecting and analyzing information that’s fed in from the hands, eyes, nose, and ears. There are now an estimated 400-plus DTC startups that have collectively raised some $3 billion in venture capital since 2012."

Social Media 52

Social Media Facebook Software Guidelines 52

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

The massive cuts will reduce the giant education company’s workforce by about 10 percent, down from about 40,000 employees based not only in the United States and United Kingdom, but Asia and countries around the world. And in South Africa, textbook sales plummeted with a new adoption cycle and budget pressure, the company said.

Pearson 40

Pearson Company Education Common Core 40

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 6, 2016

A number of ed-tech companies, including Udemy and Tynker, have raked in funds from investors over the past week. Udemy said it plans to use the new capital to “continue its strong international momentum, including growing its localized course content library and product offerings to meet the global demand for online learning.”

Udemy 40

Udemy Company Software Google 40

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. Some companies are helping create what they’re looking for in suburbs.

STEM 68

STEM Company Study Report 68

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson.

Online Learning 67

Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 67

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

They collaborate to make sure the technology and services are meeting their current and future needs. The management of such projects includes coordinating data collection from all states, supervising consultants and staff, ensuring member input and supervising the publishing process.

Broadband 41

Broadband Accessibility E-rate Mobility 41

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

The only thing most everyone agrees on is this: The roll out of the 2012 law, LD 1422, was a disaster, plagued by insufficient funding and inadequate guidance from the top. In the city’s two traditional high schools — Deering and Portland High School — classes look, and sound, much as they did prior to 2012. We’re not ready for this.”.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 20, 2015

Here are ten ways leaders become misleaders: First published May 16, 2012. I’m not saying things like data-driven analysis can’t help us — it can help us know our students and personalize learning. Toxic meeting syndrome can cause meetings to be little more than face to face announcement sessions.

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Meeting Training Study Classroom 150

MindShift

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

These companies say they are saving lives. 1, the state launched an ambitious data repository called the Florida Schools Safety Portal. So instead of integrating data, the portal essentially keeps it siloed. Spurred in part by the school shooting in Parkland, Fla., It has installed GPS tracking on every school bus. And, on Aug.

Social Media 33

Social Media Company Software Data 33