Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As part of its support of urban education, Curriculum Associates has partnered with the Council of the Great City Schools (CGCS) as a sponsor of the 31st annual Green-Garner Award. His ongoing work, as well as his commitment to urban education as a whole, has positively impacted students and educators across the district.”.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. The publisher sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015. Under his tenure, Pearson has embarked on a rocky transition to refocus Pearson as a digital-focused education company. and the U.K.”

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District Administration

DECEMBER 3, 2015

How one of the largest districts in the country is going Google District Administration Custom Publishing Group The School District of Lee County in Florida is in the midst of one of the largest education Chromebook implementations in the country, distributing some 18,000 devices along with Google Apps for Education accounts to all students in grades (..)

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eSchool News

JUNE 4, 2018

Although educational equity is a fundamental pillar of the American education system, school districts are struggling to ensure their students feel included, safe, and supported. Finally, the instructional dimension includes the materials, strategies, and activities that are the basis of instruction.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 9, 2016

More than 90 percent of math educators surveyed on the report, for instance, said they either selected or developed their own materials. And many teachers at the elementary level said they used those self-selected or developed materials frequently–at least once a week.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 13, 2018

Editor’s note: This story led off this week’s Future of Learning newsletter, which is delivered free to subscribers’ inboxes every Tuesday with trends and top stories about education innovation. . Higher Education. The need for reliable evaluation has become more urgent with the flood of new, often free, online materials.

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eSchool News

MAY 6, 2016

The national report, From Print to Pixel: The role of videos, games, animations and simulations within K-12 education , reveals that in 2010, only 23 percent of surveyed teachers said they used games, compared to 48 percent of those surveyed in 2015. How are students self-directing learning beyond the classroom?

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21st Century Educational Technology and Learning

APRIL 4, 2015

Be on the look out for my next series… entitled the ABC’s of PBL and Deeper Learning and also 40 great education sites to discover in 2015. I am almost booked through August and fall dates for 2015 are now over half full. I have delivered hundreds of workshops and presentations. Check out my Booking Page.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2016

The eBook provides educators with digital curriculum strategies, case studies and insights for connecting courses, resources and assessments with common standards and learning objects. Guide provides case studies on how districts successfully adopted integrated digital curriculum systems.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

A new study from WestEd, a nonpartisan, nonprofit research agency, commissioned by Front Row Education, found that students using the adaptive, gamified and data-drive technology showed greater mathematics achievement outcomes when compared with students who did not.

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eSchool News

APRIL 7, 2016

“Internet access is no longer an afterthought in education; instead high-speed broadband and wi-fi are now a vital component of K-12 school infrastructure, there is an increased emphasis on digital learning,” according to the report. K-12 broadband and wi-fi connectivity. State leadership for infrastructure.

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Wired Campus

OCTOBER 28, 2015

College technology leaders appear more optimistic these days about open-source textbooks and open educational resources — teaching and learning materials that can be used at no cost. Especially for large, lower-division courses, he said, open educational resources are starting to look like a viable alternative to expensive textbooks.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. See also: Fast-Growing Private Education Companies Make Inc.

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Marketplace K-12

APRIL 21, 2016

Education technology is still at its earliest stages and has yet to live up to its promise, philanthropist Bill Gates told an audience of thousands of ed-tech entrepreneurs and investors at the ASU GSV Summit here. The Gates Foundation helps support some coverage in Education Week. ). billion between 2015 and 2020 in the U.S.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Another 2015 study shows that only 30% of teachers improve substantially with PD. This is a contribution to Cathy Rubin’s Global Search for Education Top Global Teacher Blogger’s Column. Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged.

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Edcamps Game-Based Learning Conference Differentiated Instruction 287

eSchool News

APRIL 8, 2022

Michael Casserly Legacy Award for Educational Courage and Justice. Scott has served as a member of US House of Representatives since 1993 and currently serves as the chairman of the Committee on Education and Labor , where he works to advance an agenda that improves equity and quality in education. Throughout his career, Rep.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

The Evolving Economics of Educational Materials and Open Educational Resources: Toward Closer Alignment with the Core Values of Education. Dempsey (Eds.), Trends and Issues in Instructional Design and Technology (4th ed.). New York, NY: Pearson Education. Education is sharing. Education is Sharing.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

User Generated Education

JULY 1, 2018

After a 10-state tour through educational makerspaces (both in-school and off-site facilities with an educational penchant), researchers from D rexel University’s ExCITe Center found a non-inclusive culture with a lack of attention to implicit biases. Implicit bias is pervasive and insidious,” the report states.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. Paul Reville, former Massachusetts secretary of education. Since 2016 Powderhouse Studios educators have led a pilot at Somerville’s Arthur D. Related: Project-based learning boosts student engagement, understanding.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. In fairness, startups weren’t the only education companies experiencing this sort of upheaval this year: Amplify, News Corps’ education division, continued to sell off various parts of its failed business.

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