edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 28, 2018

Post resources, highlight successes, and create a place where students can report problems like cyberbullying. The company has evolved to become one of the world’s largest software companies with more than 18,500 employees in more than 50 countries. Symantec was founded in 1982 by visionary computer scientists.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Lillian Mongeau/The Hechinger Report. A student leaps during a game at Horizons Elementary School. Effects are actually found in the brain,” Hillman said. “We

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

The company partners with schools to provide online monitoring software that can alert instructors or administrators if it detects students typing or searching for certain keywords related to sexting, cyberbullying, radicalization, self-harm and more. and Australia.

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techlearning

JUNE 24, 2018

The company will showcase the new features of its award-winning product this week at ISTE 2018 in booth #630. “We It also provides classroom management and anonymous reporting features, as well as tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices.

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Software Digital Citizenship Handbook BYOD 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. The post How one district went all-in on a tutoring program to catch kids up appeared first on The Hechinger Report. Your stories.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report. So unrelentingly are the cards stacked against them that only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016 , the last year for which the figure is available from the U.S. Rivera Pichardo for The Hechinger Report.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report. “There’s a really tremendous gulf,” said Katie Berger, senior policy analyst for higher education at the nonprofit advocacy organization The Education Trust. Photo: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report.

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techlearning

MAY 18, 2018

These are important tasks and I look forward to working with the company as we move forward with this work both in the UK, and the U.S.” It also provides anonymous reporting features and tools to help schools and IT departments manage multiple devices.

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Software Digital Citizenship Handbook Advocacy 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. trillion worth of outstanding national student loan debt , the College Board reports; each owes three times more , on average, than an undergraduate, according to the Urban Institute. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. Alicia Vera for The Hechinger Report. MIAMI GARDENS, Fla.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

The college with the biggest experiment in ISAs is Purdue University, which in 2016 became the first major public college to offer ISAs. Such claims have caught the attention of consumer-protection advocacy groups like the Student Borrower Protection Center, which has found marketing language that it contends is deceptive and predatory.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Texas A&M University at Texarkana has one of the lowest retention rates of public higher-education institutions; 55 percent who started in 2012 were gone by 2016. Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. Photo by Ben Smith for The Hechinger Report. Photo: AP photo/Jeannie Nuss.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

This is part eleven of my annual look at the year’s “ top ed-tech stories ” In May, venture capitalist and former securities analyst Mary Meeker released her annual “Internet Trends” report. Much of what Meeker says in this year’s report about education is placed under her category “gaming.”

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

MindShift

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it.

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Industry Advocacy Company Training 28

Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2020

Born into a family struggling with opioid addiction in early 2016, Ryder joined his mother at two separate residential treatment centers before the age of 2, and later lived with her in a homeless shelter for more than 100 days. Parents and staff, too, report marked improvements in the kids. He’s changed a lot,” Bihner says of her son.

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MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

Dayne Guest graduated from high school in 2016. The school tested him, and the report said Dayne had weaknesses “often seen in students diagnosed with reading disabilities including dyslexia.” APM Reports/Emily Hanford). Today Guest’s options are limited because he struggles to read. All of them have dyslexia.

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MindShift

MARCH 29, 2018

This story was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report). Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report). Sign up here for our higher-education newsletter. NEWARK, Calif. — “Where do you want to go to college?

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

During this 60 minute session, AdmitHub CEO Andrew Magliozzi will reveal insights from his company’s 2016 trial with Georgia State University, where a chatbot exchanged 185,000 messages with more than 3,100 students. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality.

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MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. When the kids showed up, educators could see even more clearly how uneven their learning has been during the pandemic.

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Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab. Who Isn’t Being Served?

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

Credit: Kate Flock for The Hechinger Report. Stories like this are emerging nationwide in response to reporting about the long-standing but little-known practice under which students are prevented from obtaining their credits and degrees because they owe even small amounts of money to the universities and colleges they attended.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Known as online program managers, these companies have been hired largely to connect universities with customers who want graduate degrees. Even though the companies are often taking the bulk of the tuition revenue the degree programs pull in, the firms still aren’t profitable in many cases.

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Company Education Industry Course 56

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 4, 2019

Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report. So in 2016 she headed back to the 42-acre campus near Gary’s dilapidated downtown to study for a degree in general studies. “I Between 1996 and 2016, their share of overall college enrollment rose from 8 to 19 percent , according to the U.S. Aaron Cantú, for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. You had some experience in research and advocacy for privacy before you started there, while you were a student.

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Data Learning Advocacy System 142

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year. K-12 market.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Credit: Tara García Mathewson/The Hechinger Report. The Hechinger Report has spent a year exploring the elements of the Summit model, the extensive training process for schools that are new to the program and the twists and turns of implementation. The Chan Zuckerberg Initiative is one of the many funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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Learning Laptops Personalized Learning Data 121

The Hechinger Report

JULY 30, 2018

Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. At Northern Cass, momentum for change began during the district’s 2016 accreditation renewal when staff checked up on students after graduation. Photo: Chris Berdik for The Hechinger Report. HUNTER, N.D. — We take the tests.

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Report Personalized Learning Assessment System 111

techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

In addition, Alma will continue to provide its own set of robust reporting tools to meet many needs and budgets. This follows the company’s recent integrations with Canvas and Schoology and its OneRoster alignment. Software & Online ALMA TECHNOLOGIES, INC. HERO K12, BV INVESTMENT PARTNERS AND SCHOOLMINT ( herok12.com

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 7, 2020

Meghan Whittaker, director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. I don’t think anyone’s going to say that what we were doing worked or was equitable,” said Meghan Whittaker, the director of policy and advocacy at the National Center for Learning Disabilities. Here’s why they’re not.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

He died in 2016. But some residents said the university ultimately hired few local residents, overlooked local companies for much of the work and has not been as welcoming to neighbors as promised. “It Edwards, the founder of the Harlem Business Alliance whose company, Full Spectrum, helped renovate a 1920s building on the new campus.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

President-elect Donald Trump looks on as Betsy DeVos, his nominee for Secretary of Education, speaks at the DeltaPlex Arena, December 9, 2016 in Grand Rapids, Michigan. When I transitioned from managing schools to writing about them, I learned the value of independent journalistic reporting and writing, detached from an institution.

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Edsurge

JULY 27, 2021

For others, it’s “ political advocacy ” and “ anti-American theories. ” According to Literat, the 2016 election brought about a clear shift for young people. While working for an AP prep company, she started producing YouTube videos and posting on Instagram to help her students study. For some, it’s crucial civic education.

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Social Media Classroom Learning Trends 167

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Zovio, Ashford’s parent company, declined to discuss Baca’s case unless he signed a waiver, but generally denied assertions that it improperly told veterans they were not eligible for GI Bill benefits. Photo: Peggy Peattie for The Hechinger Report. Related: Will colleges with sky-high default rates face consequences?

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Future-minded reporting Our free newsletter, Future of Learning, features innovative, original stories every other Wednesday. Districts decide which categories to block, often making those selections without a complete understanding of the universe of websites under each label—information that the filtering companies consider proprietary.

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Social Media Libraries Elementary Advocacy 69

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

This story about special education services was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Vaughn’s advocacy on behalf of her kids came to a temporary standstill this spring, when she was hospitalized with the coronavirus.

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Education Advocacy System Policies 49

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

His paltry education was much like that of dozens of other children in the GNETS system whose experiences this reporter researched. Most, but not all, reported an absence of the sort of therapeutic benefit implied by the program’s name. Whether the Trump administration will approach the case differently is unclear.

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Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 79