The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 18, 2016

13, 2016, in Los Angeles. The sweepstakes grand prize included a $50,000 scholarship and a trip to Los Angeles with a guest to meet Katy Perry. I’ve been honored to work with Staples since 2015 to support their back to school initiatives. I like to work with companies who support teachers.

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Classroom Company Twitter Meeting 150

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

million job openings in December 2018 and payroll growth at its highest since 2015. There has been a lot of hand-wringing about who will step up to meet the current needs of the skills shortage, and higher education has come under scrutiny, accused of not equipping students enough for the workforce.

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Software Training Study Trends 129

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By: Robyn Shulman, 2016. Fast Forward to 2016. News Best Colleges rankings from 1995 to 2015, university inflation has grown at profound rates. Government can garnish wages and withhold tax refunds to meet student loan debt requirements. *If Many companies now offer tuition assistance to full and part time students.

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Company Study Resources Accessibility 222

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2019

In this still from a Byju's provided video, about 20,000 students pack the country's largest indoor arena for a math lesson from the company's CEO in 2013. The stunt came years before the CEO’s company, Byju’s, launched a learning app that would take the company to 35 million downloads, with 2.7 million) this fiscal year.

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Company Video Broadband Report 92

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 191

eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2015

note : This year the editors selected ten stories we believe either highlighted an important issue in 2015 and/or signaled the beginning of an escalating trend or issue for 2016 (look for No. As an educator, how do you know who to trust when it comes to meeting your district’s technology needs?

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LMS Trends Software Company 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

From bigwig financiers to bankers, along with heads of private and publicly-traded education technology companies, the gathering attracted around 900 attendees last week to share the opportunities and challenges in the industry this year. The previous year, 2015, set a record for education technology investments with over $3.1

EdTech 126

EdTech Edmentum Industry Company 126

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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Khan Academy Learning Meeting Company 164

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

The company got its start in late 2010, spurred by founder Anthony Kim’s work with KIPP Empower , an elementary charter school in Los Angeles. He founded Education Elements to meet that need. As of spring 2016, the company has supported 100 districts nationally, representing 300 schools and 300K students. Stay tuned!

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Education Elements Personalized Learning Education Learning 60

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Stride Inc.,

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. businesses reported difficulty finding appropriately trained workers, up from 32 percent reported in 2015. Census Bureau 2016; U.S. This dichotomy is not lost on investors. Source: Sources: U.S.

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Udemy Coursera Company Training 82

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2017

Among those who graduated in the class of 2016, for example, the Economic Policy Institute found that the underemployment rate—when workers take on jobs lower than their skill sets or training—was 12.6 It turns out TalentWorks isn’t the first company to promise young job seekers a spot in the interview chair. percent, compared to 9.6

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Company Trends Meeting Study 106

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

New momentum, she adds, is driven largely by the federal Second Chance Pell program that was introduced in 2015 and recently extended through 2020. Then, in 2016, the U.S. Since 2016, Ashland has begun offering associate and bachelor degrees to its Pell recipients, and enrollment numbers have grown significantly, Marshall says.

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Technology Laptops Education Blackboard 129

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. Working closely with partners, I spent the years from 1993 to 2004 starting and leading a handful of technology startups.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 160

Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Authenticity in an Age of Omnipresent Technology Jonny Sun During a keynote at ISTE in June 2016, physicist Dr. Michio Kaku spoke to the impending reality that the internet would “ be everywhere and nowhere ” as artificial intelligence develops and renders certain jobs a thing of the past. 4-6 at the Fusion conference to meet him.

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Conference Social Media System Technology 142

Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Now, the Salt Lake City-based company is back to growing—this time, on the right track, its current CEO Mick Hewitt insists—with the help of a new funding round. This round is a notable decline from MasteryConnect’s Series B round, which totalled more than $20 million across two closings in 2014 and 2015. We want to meet them.”

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Company Assessment EdTech iPad 60

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Makerspaces are expected to reach accelerated classroom adoption in less than one year, according to the K-12 Edition of the 2016 New Media Consortium Horizon Report. All the student has to do is subscribe to Shmoop’s 12-month student plan between November 1, 2016 and January 15, 2017, and then email their essay to Shmoop HQ.

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CMS SchoolDude E-rate Differentiated Instruction 72

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

I really do build classroom cohort so that we meet outside of the classroom as groups where we can really collaborate together and plan together. In 2015 Deb was selected as a PBS Lead Digital Innovator and in 2018 she was selected as a PBS All Star. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Classroom Blended Learning Company Twitter 191

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The next best option, typically, is to be acquired by another company, in exchange for cash or stock options. million to buy the company from Permira Funds. They kept taking away my ability to do anything at the company.". They kept taking away my ability to do anything at the company,” Ringelstein alleges.

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EdTech Company Learning Analytics Report 60

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

For the large scale systemic work, the company typically takes a cohort of schools through a variety of workshops to support redesign on a larger scale. Sometimes the company works in a particular region to manage a large-scale systemic change across multiple districts and charter networks.

Groups 60

Groups Blended Learning Personalized Learning Company 60

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 80

Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2017

But one company thinks it has figured it out, and it’s been rewarded with a few extra dollar signs to prove it. After hearing them out, they decided to develop the product in a way that could meet students where they’re at—on mobile devices. “To It’s a big question that most, if not all college administrators and faculty grapple with.

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Student Engagement Outcomes Mobility Social Media 65

EdTechTeam

OCTOBER 14, 2016

Custom solutions are alsoavailable to meet the specific needs of a school or district. Launched in late June 2016, EdTechTeam Press now offers 12 titles and HAS sold over ten thousand books in the three months since the program Launched.

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Professional Learning Learning iPad Conference 81

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Schools and businesses can meet halfway to close the mentorship gap. Photo: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.

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Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 106

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

Numbers say the company’s strategy is working: Since January 2017, Guild has helped more than 500 front-of-the-line employees go back to school, and claims to have coached more than 7,000 students since its inception in 2015. They also get opportunities to apply for federal financial aid. Better retention. “In

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Kaplan Education Company Industry 76

Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

PowerSchool purchased an IEP management business while ed-tech companies including Speakaboos, FreshGrade and Nearpod received significant investments. based MAXIMUS partners with state, federal and local governments to provide health and human service programs and solutions to a diverse array of communities, according to the company website.

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Company Pearson Software Libraries 49

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. We talk about the days long gone when companies trained employees from the ground up and now we’re talking about companies training employees again. “We

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Sony Microsoft Industry Company 91

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

By October 2015, Google estimated some 10 million students and teachers were using it. Along the way, the company has added features for teachers to manage several classes and invite collaborators, as well as adding the API for administrators and developers to integrate Classroom with outside applications.

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System Google Schoology LMS 60

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

At the community college level, students could take online courses from either a California community college or a CSU in order to more quickly meet requirements to transfer or complete an associate's degree. Quottly was founded in 2015 and claims to host more than 2 million transferable online courses from 700 colleges. Finish Faster!

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Course Tools System Report 82

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2018

According to a 2015 study commissioned by the U.S. The school is located on Carlisle Avenue, named after William Carlisle, the co-founder of the long-shuttered timber company that established this town. In contrast, Onalaska’s population rose from 731 residents in 2012 to 772 residents in 2016, according to U.S. Census data.

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Company Report Trends Study 111

eSchool News

JUNE 14, 2016

The Learning Counsel’s 2016 Digital Curriculum Strategy Survey and Assessment Tool is now available online. Without understanding the needs, interests, and objectives of our current state, we would not be able to provide the vision and resources that effectively meet the needs of our district. Transition barriers.

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Survey Learning OER BYOD 40

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

A robot built by students to research endangered frogs in Lake Titicaca, in Peru, being tested in June, 2016, by Lindsey Hamblin (left), then a Skyline High School senior, and Callie Meyers, then a Skyline junior. We actually had to learn about the frogs,” said Jerry Vasquez, who started with the project when he was a sophomore in 2015. “We

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STEM Report Robotics Company 100

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. Morial is one of three schools that received a one-time $300,000 grant from the nonprofit New Schools for New Orleans in March 2015. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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Personalized Learning Software Data Report 99

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.

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Pearson Company Education Common Core 40

Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Take Purdue University, which in 2016 launched its “ Back A Boiler ” program, where students can choose to finance their education by paying nothing now and forking over a percentage of their income after graduating for up to 10 years. But increasingly, income-share agreements are showing up on traditional campuses, too. They take on debt.

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Policies Outcomes Blackboard Company 62

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Elliott’s company, TouchMath, introduced a screener earlier this year that can identify signs of math disabilities, like dyscalculia, in children as young as age 3. In 2015 and 2016, the city spent $6 million to roll out a new math curriculum featuring games, building blocks, art projects and songs.

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Report Training Elementary Strategy 130

EdTechTeam

AUGUST 9, 2019

I wanted to learn more about Jennifer’s perspective on edtech for social good, and after an introduction from Al, she was kind enough to meet with me via Hangout to share more of her work. She has aligned her recent work with the Sustainable Development Goals produced by the United Nations in 2015 (as an agenda for moving forward to 2030).

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Education Social Media EdTech Advocacy 71