Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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Assessment Elsevier Knewton Company 63

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

That was in 2017. “It That reality, along with concerns about inequities baked into the assessments and a growing demographic gap between students in America and their teachers, has propelled a number of states to reconsider their approach. It began to become emotionally draining. I decided I couldn’t keep doing that to myself.”

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

The two companies are no strangers: Workbench has been integrated with Google Classroom, which allows educators to assign Workbench projects to students, and track, review and assess their progress. According to The Baltimore Sun , the company claimed users in roughly 10,000 schools as of October 2017.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

At the same time, our middle school science department made the switch from traditional grading to standards-based assessment and overhauled our philosophy to focus on fostering revision practices. Since our switch to standards-based assessment in 2016, I've been keeping records on academic achievement and revision behaviors.

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techlearning

MARCH 19, 2018

During the 2016-2017 school year, five public school districts in Rhode Island used STEMscopes NGSS in their elementary schools. The 2017 NECAP results show that the districts that used STEMscopes outperformed the rest of the state on their fourth grade proficiency rates in science.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2018

Fourth-graders didn’t improve in 2017 in either subject. The average performance of the nation’s fourth- and eighth-graders mostly held steady in math and reading from 2015 to 2017, now marking a decade of stalled educational progress, according to the results of a test released Tuesday. Reading scores also stagnated.

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Education Common Core Report Academic Standards 110

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA. It bought Edusoft, an English language-learning tool, in 2011 and purchased assessment provider Questar for $127.5 million in 2017.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In Pearson’s 2017 full-year results report , the publisher stated that “we have concluded the strategic review of our US K12 courseware business and have classified the business as held for sale.” The publisher sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015. billion) in 2017. “It billion (approximately US $6.3

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Waterford

APRIL 10, 2020

Vistas Online Journal, 2017, pp. The Professional Counselor, 2017, 7(3), pp. Self-Care Tools, Strategies and Assessment. InnovAiT, May 2015, 8(6), pp. Retrieved from bls.gov: [link]. Thomas, D.A., and Morris, M.H. Creative Counselor Self-Care. Coaston, S.C. Self-Care Through Self-Compassion: A Balm for Burnout.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Educators use a variety of resources to meet the needs and interests of individual students, including videos, images, games, non-fiction text and varying types of assessments. There Should Be Something for Everyone For educators, the biggest advantage of digital resources is the ability to personalize content for students.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 19, 2023

The original title of the webinar was "The 2017 Clovis, New Mexico Library Shootings: The Teenage Attacker Reveals His Motives." And in the most serious incident of violence at a library, a 16-year-old male shot and killed two female library employees and wounded four others, including a ten-year-old boy, at a branch in Clovis, NM in 2017.

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Libraries Learning Accessibility Training 68

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

AUGUST 23, 2022

On Monday, August 28, 2017, at about 4:15 pm, 16-year-old high school student Nathaniel Jouett went into the Clovis-Carver, New Mexico library branch in downtown Clovis with a gun inside his backpack. In 2015, the ALA published his book, Library Security: Better Communication, Safer Facilities. The details are chilling. in Psychology.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015. The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

With a complete offering of professional learning, curriculum, and embedded assessment, Lexia helps more learners read, write, and speak with confidence. The Cambium family of brands includes: Cambium Assessment, Lexia®, Learning A-Z®, Voyager Sopris Learning®, ExploreLearning®, Time4Learning®, and Kurzweil Education®.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

APRIL 18, 2018

In 2015, Idaho adopted an open-enrollment policy allowing families to send students to their school of choice. In 2015, Idaho passed a state-wide open enrollment law that allows parents to send children to their school of choice. How NOT to Assess Student Writing. We’re not utopia, we have a lot of challenges,”.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. The two companies previously partnered in 2017 on product integrations that allowed users to more easily access and share information across both systems.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

In 2015, the National Association of School Superintendents (NASS) named her the National Superintendent of the Year. Next, I believe you have to begin by assessing the existing structures and systems for strengths, weaknesses and potential changes. how can they assess what’s working and what isn’t?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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Education Common Core Report Assessment 78

Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

Bencivenga, who will be coaching entrepreneurs on acquisitions at EdSurge Immersion NYC in September, founded DataCation (later named CaseNEX DataCation) in 2007, and made his first acquisition in 2011, buying the assessment business DataDriven Classroom. CaseNEX DataCation bought Pals, a reading assessment platform, in 2012.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 113

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

Launched in 2015, Future Ready Schools ®, a collaboration of over 60 national and regional organizations, led by the Alliance for Excellent Education , lays out a framework for change and provides a myriad of free tools and resources, as well as support for district and school-based leaders. Personalized Professional Learning.

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Future Ready Advocacy Strategy Assessment 60

Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

Assuming the leadership roles will be Ben Kornell and Devin Vodicka, both of whom joined AltSchool in 2017 as part of a spree of executive hires. Vodicka had served as Superintendent of Vista Unified School District in California, and won the state’s top superintendent award in 2015. In 2017, it started closing schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Jennifer Gonzalez has released her 2018 Teachers Guide to Technology with over 200 education technology tools including tools for assessment, flipped learning, presentations, parent engagement, video engagement and more. We Don’t Have To Choose Between Assessment and Excellent Teaching. The assessment piece is important for kids.

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Waterford

JULY 6, 2020

Journal of Counseling & Development, April 2017, 95(2), pp. Parental involvement in middle school: a meta-analytic assessment of the strategies that promote achievement. Johns Hopkins University, 2015, School of Education. Empowering Parents to Transform Schools. Retrieved from edweek.org: [link]. Petrelli, M.J. Sheldon, S.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 21, 2016

FY 2015 $0. Obama administration FY 2015 request for a proposed replacement educational technology program (see page 5) : “ $200 million for a new ConnectEDucators initiative that would help educators transition to using technology and data to personalize learning and improve CCR [college- and career-ready] instruction and assessment.

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Shake Up Learning

MAY 31, 2022

Every day more schools and districts are switching to Lumio – it’s truly a flexible, time-saving tool that makes it easy to turn your PDFs, Google Slides, PowerPoint, and Notebook files into engaging lessons with interactive activities, games, group workspaces, and formative assessment ALL built right in. To get Lumio for FREE, head to Lum.io

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Elementary Differentiated Instruction Assessment Training 86

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. The state’s just reduced that to a requirement of one science, one social studies, one math, and a reading and writing assessment. Built for Chromebooks, it saves all of your recordings directly to Google Drive.

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Chromebook Study Company Assessment 190

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 5, 2022

Before joining Forward Edge in 2015, she worked in adult education, supervised students in an alternative school, taught computer science, and was an instructional technology coach at both the building and K-12 district levels. Head to Lumio for more information and to sign up for FREE. Katie finished her Ed.D. for this episode.

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Technology Training Twitter Collaborative Learning 462

The Principal of Change

FEBRUARY 19, 2017

In my last post, “Common Assessments” vs “Common Understandings” , I was reminded of how powerful comments are on a blog, and why blogging is a hugely powerful tool for not only sharing your learning, but learning from others. 2 What I think we mean is that we are looking for “common understandings”, not “common assessments”.

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Data Assessment Differentiated Instruction MOOC 77

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Founded in 2015, MasterClass has stuck to its founding premise: to make Hollywood-quality courses featuring experts who are the best in their profession. Rogier said his team has considered adding assessments and conducting effectiveness studies, but it’s unlikely those will materialize. He declined to share how much each costs.

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Company Learning Course Report 127

Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

percent (about 10,000 students) in the 2017-2018 school year, to 15.1 Simon and the rest of the district turned their focus to food security , internet connectivity for families in need and online suicide prevention assessments. percent (about 150 students) percent during the 2016-2017 school year. But it has proven elusive.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 10, 2019

The latest research comes from the Reboot Foundation, which released a study in June 2019 that shows a negative connection between a nation’s performance on international assessments and 15-year-olds’ self-reported use of technology in school. In the United States, the results were more complicated.

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Tablets Analysis Report Study 112

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 25, 2017

Assessment. Research reveals that students ubiquitously perceive assessment as something that is “done to them [sic] by someone else — and is out of their control.” Retrieved October 1, 2017: [link]. [2] 2015) Who believes in me? New Assessment Beliefs for a New School Mission, Phi Delta Kappan, p.22-27.

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Policies Personalized Learning Assessment Professional Learning 177

100mentors

OCTOBER 15, 2019

The IBO traditionally connects instruction throughout different contexts with developing learners’ thinking skills (contextualized learning) (IBO, 2015). Their oral and written responses may not always reflect their level of understanding, but whatever they deliver should be assessed as it is.

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Learning Strategy Assessment Course 78

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. Between 2010 to 2015, venture capitalists poured $2.3 K-12 edtech companies, with $741 million coming in 2015 alone. ( That’s less than half of the $2 billion total raised in 2015.

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Waterford

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Measuring learning styles often involves an assessment such as this one from the Georgia Department of Education. Personality and Individual Differences, October 2017, 116(1), pp. Teaching of Psychology, June 2015, 42(3), pp. Computers & Education, March 2017, 106, pp. General Music Today, 2015, 28(2), pp.29-32.

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Differentiated Instruction Learning Study Examples 176

Tech Helpful

DECEMBER 30, 2018

Explaining the analytics data of digital testing inside Canvas and how it can benefit or students and teachers when creating assessments. Harking the benefits of rubric-based assessing so that students can share their learning in ways other than a paper/pencil/digital assessment of questions.

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Assessment Outcomes Data Technology 96

EdTechTeam

MARCH 16, 2017

On March 10, 2017, at Avon Lake High School in Avon Lake, OH nearly 100 educational leaders gathered for a day of learning, discovery, exploration, reflection and energy. of Writing Pathways: Performance Assessments and Learning Progressions , by Lucy Calkins. March 2017 Lubelfeld M., Publications Bullis B., Lubelfeld M.

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