Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Starting with a $100 million fund in 2015, Owl has since raised two subsequent funds— $185 million in 2017, and $315 million in 2019. Since 2015, Owl has invested in 39 edtech companies. edtech companies raised $803 million in the first half of 2020. In total, U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

In the early months of 2020, her team expanded an attendance campaign called “All In,” from four to 25 schools across the district, which is home to 85 public schools in total. Its contract with Long Beach Unified for the 2019-2020 school year is for $21,110. Simon was confident that her team’s efforts would help.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

DUBAI, UAE–29 September, 2020 : The Abdul Aziz Al Ghurair Refugee Education Fund (REF) has announced a new first of its kind partnership with Discovery Education to deliver award winning online learning, increasing access to education for thousands of refugees and vulnerable youth in Lebanon.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nationwide, significant progress has been made since March 2020 on closing the digital divide – the chasm between those K-12 learners who have access to reliable internet and computing devices at home and those who don’t. The six public schools in Brunswick operated on a hybrid schedule for most of the 2020-21 school year.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 1, 2020

Related: When it comes to liberal arts education, online learning changes only the tools. They fanned out across historically undercounted communities like Harlem and reported on the 2020 census. Related: With many schools choosing online learning how can we keep the music alive? Still, we were taking a risk.

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

AUGUST 23, 2020

It is back to school time 2020 for many of us in the United States and beyond. Regardless of your districts approach, now is a time to facilitate the student centered learning that Project Based Learning makes possible. How might we bring these important elements to the online learning experience in the next school year?

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Kitaboo on EdTech

DECEMBER 27, 2017

Did you know more than 80% of internet and mobile audiences watched more live-videos in 2016 as compared to 2015, and streaming video accounts for more than two-thirds of all internet traffic and is expected to jump to 82% by 2020? So, what’s the future of education?

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

" Tagged on: July 23, 2017 Education Division Strategic Plan | National Governors Association → NGA's Education Division has a new strategic plan (2017-2020), which includes a focus on personalized learning. million federal grant to study online credit recovery | LA Times → L.A. I think the latter."

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

With the ability to log into lessons online, students at the secondary level won’t have to miss instruction even if they’re suspended, says Superintendent L. During the 2015-16 school year, Black students in the district faced out-of-school suspension at 3.4 Oliver Robinson. Federal funds help narrow the digital divide.

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Learning Accessibility Personalized Learning Digital Divide 143

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Sabrina Bernadel, legal counsel at the National Women’s Law Center Lawyers and advocates across the country say that the practice of forcing a student out of the physical school building and into online learning has emerged as a troubling — and largely hidden — legacy of the pandemic’s shift to virtual learning.

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Catlin Tucker

JANUARY 17, 2022

The quality of a teacher’s relationship with their students has the most significant impact on their emotional engagement at work (Hagenauer, Hascher & Volet, 2015; Tucker 2020). Many teachers begin the year with community-building activities designed to help students form interpersonal relationships with their peers.

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MindShift

JULY 13, 2021

Only half of students who take college algebra score C or higher in the course, a 2015 report by the Mathematical Association of America noted. She reels off the names of four new apps her students have had to learn for their algebra courses. Even students who have done well working virtually don’t love online learning.

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How To STEM Course Exercises 43

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

In the COVID-19 Data Dispatch’s “Opening” series , we profiled five school communities that successfully reopened during the 2020-2021 school year. Both of these rural districts faced challenges with online learning, as many families did not have Wi-Fi at home. Collaboration with the public health department is key.

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The Principal of Change

APRIL 1, 2020

In 2015, Bill Ferriter and I put this image together to encourage thoughtful use of technology: Right now, what you are seeing is that the “Better Answers” column is becoming the norm, rather than the exception. But I was also reminded that this is not merely schools moving “online.” Stay safe and take care.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 16, 2020

He was commissioned by the White House on January 24, 2020, following his confirmation by the United States Senate. But where do busy library people go for learning when they are doing more than ever before in a world impacted by a global pandemic? Crosby Kemper is the sixth director of Institute of Museum and Library Services.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 20, 2022

As Jones County leaders will tell you, this dynamic, one-stop-shop of connected solutions and professional learning services positioned the district well to face the unique challenges presented by COVID-19 and the 2020-2021 school year. Epic Charter Schools offers online learning to more than 30,000 students in the state of Oklahoma.

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edWeb.net

MAY 21, 2021

When asked about the hurdles that happened due to schools closing on March 13th, 2020, all four presenters agreed that broadband, not devices, challenged their districts to provide equitable access to learning no matter their districts’ geographic location or demographics. The world has changed.

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

They also revealed that in October 2020, 62% of adults supported the public education system, and now, as of May 2023, the numbers have decreased to 52.5%. In the academic year 2015-16, the state’s funding was reduced by 11% as compared to the last 10 years, which is the result of a hike in education expenses.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

She was a successful education leader in Virginia, and Texas before McGraw-Hill recruited her to lead their Urban Markets 2015-2017. She attracted national recognition for the superintendent work she led in Isle of Wight County Schools in Smithfield, Virginia from 2011-2015.

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edWeb.net

MAY 7, 2021

In an edLeader Panel , sponsored by CatchOn, An ENA Affiliate and Battelle for Kids , school administrators emphasized pandemic-triggered changes are lessons learned that can frame effective educational practices moving forward. At the start of the pandemic in March 2020, schools defaulted to online learning.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

So explained Dr. Julie Evans, Chief Executive Officer of Project Tomorrow, in an edWebinar sponsored by Blackboard , examining findings from the program’s 2020 annual research project, Speak Up , for which 10,000 K-12 students nationwide shared their preferences and expectations for two-way communications with their teachers. The results?

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Blackboard Social Media Learning Student Data Privacy 74

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Learning Coaching and Mentoring ? Learning Cultures ? Mindful Teaching and Learning ? Lifelong Learning ? Online Learning ? Remote Teaching and Learning ? and MAIT : Beyond the Buzzwords: How to infuse SEL, flipped learning, & more into everyday activities Kate Baker, M.Ed Managing Stress ?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 24, 2020

In 2015, public subsidies, not including real estate tax exemptions, totaled $105,000 per full-time student at Princeton University, and just $2,400 at Essex County College, the two-year school an hour up the highway. Stark funding disparities exist in higher education.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

We’re living in the most costly, expensive times that I’ve lived through as superintendent,” said Gestson, who has been in that job since 2015. The first, passed in March of 2020, provided around $13.2 In November 2020, the state passed Proposition 208 to put a 3.5 billion for K-12 education. Credit: Ralph Freso/Getty Images.

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Edsurge

JULY 23, 2020

The Boston-based company is backed in part by Huron Consulting Group, which invested $13 million in convertible debt in the first quarter of 2020 on top of a combined $27.9 million in 2014 and 2015. Public-Private Partnership Shorelight leaders are careful to avoid calling what American Collegiate Live offers “online” learning.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 17, 2020

airing on Discovery in 2020.) Ross Wehner Founder, World Leadership School Ross Wehner is Founder of World Leadership School, which partners with K-12 schools to reimagine learning and create next-generation leaders. World Leadership School is a pioneer in the field of Purpose Learning, or learning as thinking, feeling, and doing.

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MindShift

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Responding in part to this research, the federal Every Student Succeeds Act, signed into law in 2015, raised the stakes on attendance. One tricky matter that schools have to decide in this era is how exactly they’re going to credit “attendance” when online learning doesn’t always mean showing up on a video conference.

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Policies Online Learning Laptops System 37

The Hechinger Report

JULY 24, 2022

per 1,000 in 2020. For example, the Pregnancy Assistance Fund, a $25 million federal grant program that supported services for young parents so they could finish school, ended in 2020. There were almost 160,000 births to 15- to 19-year-olds in 2020. In 1991, there were 61.8 That’s a 75 percent drop.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

.” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “A state-court jury in Connecticut on Thursday sided with a fraternity whose house was closed by Wesleyan University in the fall of 2015 after the fraternity, Delta Kappa Epsilon, resisted complying with a university mandate to admit women.” ” Contests and Awards.

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Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Online Education and the Once and Future “MOOC” An op-ed in Forbes by University Ventures’ Ryan Craig : “Make Online Education Great (For The First Time).” ” Via The Financial Times : “ Coursera chief on the future of online learning and the Trump era.” to 2020, to Reach $1.83

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