Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new. About 375,000 students in 32 states are enrolled in statewide online schools, many of which are operated as charter schools or run by Education Service Provider companies such as K12 Inc.

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 213

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.”.

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Learning Report System Case Study 111

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

This has happened as Georgia officials – like those in many other states – are pushing to increase the number of young residents who have some kind of post-secondary education. In their freshman year, 2012-13, tuition and fees at Savannah State were about $3,000 per semester, more than $800 higher than they’d been in 2009-10.

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Policies Report Study Data 66

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. Related: DEBT WITHOUT DEGREE: Students drown in debt despite a $524 million state surplus. Sign up for our Higher Education newsletter.

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Dropout Study Report System 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. Quality can vary greatly.

Online Learning 71

Online Learning Learning Course Blended Learning 71

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

To be sure, ongoing ill will over NCLB influenced the bitter, drawn-out negotiations over the reauthorization of the Elementary and Secondary Education Act, which became ESSA (NCLB was also a reauthorization of the 1965 act). How much of No Child Left Behind’s legacy still lingers on in its successor?

Education 40

Education Policies Learning Report 40

MindShift

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies. Quality can vary greatly.

Online Learning 31

Online Learning Learning Course Report 31

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

men’s and women’s basketball teams at the 2012 Olympics in London used its state-of-the-art athletic facilities as home base. And meeting college students like him, Hood said, “definitely opens them up to the possibility” of aiming higher. companies, at just under 15 percent, according to the Center for American Progress.

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Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

eSchool News

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Whether it was participating in device-day pickup or hosting and coordinating meet-the-teacher drive-throughs, the entire district staff stepped up to provide for nearly 61,000 students. The company was sold to Jostens, Inc. in 2012 and the platform continues to serve districts across the nation as School Way.

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Education Learning EdTech Data 127

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

It’s also looking at the potential changes, said Dr. Gabe Soumakian, CEO and Founder, Sup Du Jour Consulting Group, like what happens when a software or hardware company goes out of business. Are they prepared to adapt to other systems? Ann earned her bachelors, masters, and Ed.S. degrees from Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana.

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 51

MindShift

NOVEMBER 16, 2018

” Still, he’s managed to identify some key common elements: At the schools he’s studied, students meet regularly, one on one, with teachers. Think 28 meetings of 15 minutes each — that’s a full day of a teacher’s time, somewhere between once a week and once a month. “You have to teach yourself.”

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Personalized Learning Khan Academy Learning Software 34

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Or remix existing open source tools to meet their needs. If we want to facilitate a wide-scale shift away from traditionally copyrighted materials to OER, we have to meet these other faculty – the overwhelming majority of faculty – where they currently are.

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OER Secondary Software Outcomes 96

The Hechinger Report

JULY 8, 2019

He’d grown up poor in the Calliope housing projects, one of the most violent neighborhoods in New Orleans, but he owned two tow-truck companies by the time Metz met him. By 1998, fewer than 4 percent of incarcerated people were taking post-secondary courses. Instead, she started looking for someone to help raise her child.

Education 112

Education iPhone Report Microsoft 112

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 23, 2018

Via the AP : “One of the nation’s largest student loan servicing companies may have driven tens of thousands of borrowers struggling with their debts into higher-cost repayment plans. the nation’s third-largest student loan servicing company.” Via The New York Times : “Meet Zora, the Robot Caregiver.”

Education 52

Education LMS Robotics E-rate 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last. 3D Printing.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.” What are promises that – legally – post-secondary institutions can or must make? So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” ” “I thought maybe this is the way it works.”

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Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

The legislation also ordered telecom companies to provide their services to all public schools and libraries at discounted rates – from 20% to 90% off depending on the services provided and number of students receiving free and reduced school lunches. That is, Internet speeds of 100 Mbps per 1000 users.)

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E-rate Digital Divide Broadband Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 15, 2017

Leiserowitz — whose research has focused on how culture, politics and psychology impact public perception of the environment — said fossil-fuel companies have a stake in perpetuating a message of oil dependency. API’s vice president of communications delivered a special presentation to the board in 2012 on marketing strategies.

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Industry Education Company Groups 59