The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 7, 2019

She is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 Under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. She conducts workshops across the country and presents at regional, national, and international conferences.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 4, 2016

Shahid Buttar , Director of Grassroots Advocacy at the Electronic Frontier Foundation ( EFF ) on the crucial importance of libraries in the fight to protect privacy rights and intellectual freedom. Lamanna , Adult Service Librarian at the Cherry Hill Public Library , on "Tor Relays Using Raspberry Pi."

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Conference Libraries Survey Advocacy 28

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

By 2014, the latest year for which data is available, that number had risen to 2.7 million in 2014. “We Angie Burda, the program’s manager, developed a broad range of services, establishing support groups, educational workshops, and recreational activities for families with children of all ages. million in 2005 to 7.1

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Policies System Groups Report 69

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. It's like kids are already getting knocked out for the count in elementary school.”

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Industry STEM Education Survey 113

Edsurge

AUGUST 8, 2019

After all, plenty of people who meet the diagnostic criteria for autism spectrum disorders enter college without diagnoses and are therefore disconnected from official university disabilities services, according to research published in the Harvard Review of Psychiatry in 2014.

Advocacy 129

Advocacy Meeting System Groups 129

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Dana is an Ashoka Fellow, was named one of The New Leaders Council’s 40 under 40 Progressive American Leaders, and was the winner of the Tides Foundation’s Jane Bagley Lehman award for excellence in public advocacy in 2014. His most recent book is entitled The New Imperatives of Educational Change: Achievement with Integrity.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

A network of charter schools in California and Washington developed the Summit Learning Program for their students almost a decade ago; the model got a boost in 2014 from Facebook engineers after Mark Zuckerberg and his wife, Priscilla Chan, visited a Summit middle school. Related: The messy reality of personalized learning.

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 117

The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2019

That push officially began in 2014, when Deborah Gist, then the state’s commissioner of education, announced a public-private “innovation partnership” to merge traditional and computerized pedagogy. For decades, nonprofit advocacy groups and corporate donors have targeted K-12 education for intervention.

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Personalized Learning Learning Chromebook Elementary 98

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

Child advocacy groups and other non-profits, who often oversee the deals and sometimes serve as guarantors, say the arrangements encourage officials to embrace interventions with good track records. At two workshop tables, teachers worked one-on-one with students. In one corner, students could read books about bears.

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Report Elementary Advocacy Company 63

The Hechinger Report

JULY 12, 2019

Prisoners were restricted to correspondence courses until a law passed in 2014 allowing in-person classes. By 2017, about 4,500 prisoners were enrolled in community college with tuition paid for by taxpayers through a state financial aid program , up from zero prisoners in 2014. Seven university presidents have contacted Brant R.

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Report Course Study Groups 110

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

program in 2014, Courtney returned to her alma mater as the 9th grade African American History/ Human Geography teacher. As a writer, speaker and bilingual workshop facilitator, Jennifer strives to inspire educators and shift practices in schools around the world. | Social Studies Teacher Licensure to become an educator.

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Conference Education STEM Secondary 72

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.)

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

Here are the areas that have seen the most ed-tech investment activity so far this year: Learning to code : Investments include Galvanize ($45,000,000), Codecademy ($30,000,000), Andela ($24,000,000), Wonder Workshop ($20,000,000), Revature ($20,000,000). It’s first startup investment – a tutoring app.

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Technology Education Common Core Company 40

Hack Education

AUGUST 26, 2016

Via the Chiago Sun Times : “A suburban father and son accused in 2014 of scamming public school districts out of millions – only to post diamonds and rubies to get out of jail – pleaded guilty Tuesday to mail fraud. ” The CEO in question: Nicholas Trombetta. ” Upgrades and Downgrades.

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Education Khan Academy MOOC Company 40