eSchool News

NOVEMBER 29, 2015

Technology use is increasing, with 4 out of 5 teachers saying they will use classroom technology more frequently during the 2015-2016 school year, according to a survey from Front Row Education, a company that provides adaptive, gamified and data driven education programs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Perhaps it is because of the myth of the entrepreneur that resounds throughout popular culture: examples like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of college, and in doing so, seemingly spurned education in order to build major tech companies—and yet now each have education initiatives of their own. Blackboard Inc.,

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Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

A venture capital firm backed in part by retired NBA basketball superstar Kobe Bryant is making its first-ever education investment in an online tutoring company for Chinese children who want to learn English. The company offers one-on-one English language instruction with curricula based on the Common Core State Standards.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 29, 2016

Two assessment companies—Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.—are The Texas Education Agency announced last week that it will collect a fine from ETS, the company responsible for the statewide delivery and administration of its State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests, with liquidated damages amounting to $5.7

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Most people who are middle-income or better, the Common Core kindergarten standards almost seem ridiculously easy. Duck Duck Moose was the first company that could come up with really compelling apps that were good—arguably good—for kids, in 2009, 2010, 2011. Like, of course my kid knows how to do those things. I’m a big fan.”

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

We are grateful for companies and organizations who believe in the power of globally connected learning. Our founding sponsor International Education Resources Network (IEARN) will continue to support us for the 2016 Global Education Conference. Barrios, Ed.D.;

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2016

During 2016’s SXSWedu, AltSchool CEO and co-founder Max Ventilla launched “ AltSchool Open ,” a partner program where anyone interested in developing or transforming a school could apply to use the technology that runs AltSchool’s seven campuses. Today, the company has selected three partners for the first cohort of AltSchool Open.

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Marketplace K-12

JULY 29, 2016

billion for the first half of 2016. Reuters reported that the company’s shares were the biggest losers on Britain’s Financial Times Stock Exchange 100 for the day. the company indicated in its official announcement. In January, the company announced plans to cut 4,000 employees, or about 10 percent of its workforce.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 14, 2017

Your class will be covering all types of common core standards. The Genius hour and 20% time projects cover multiple common cores standards. Today, we are beginning to see educators, educational institutions, and educational companies do new things in new ways.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2016

In an effort to reach all students with meaningful literacy instruction, McGraw-Hill Education, a learning science company, has launched SRA FLEX Literacy Projects Jumpstart, a free introduction to project-based literacy intervention for grades 3-12.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

Editor’s Note: ‘Tis the season of giving, eating and reflecting, a time to look back on 2016 and to make bold predictions about what next year may hold. Continue Efforts to Improve Connectivity In Schools Just last week, one of my portfolio company founders was excited to pilot a new literacy tool in a school in Richmond, Calif.,

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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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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 30, 2016

Nearly all of those excluded worked for test-prep companies, as my colleague Catherine Gewertz reported. ” In one of Reuters’ stories , the agency reports that test-prep companies posted people outside the March 5 debut of the new exam–and that they collected information from test-takers that was later circulated.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

And the conference featured plenty of students who say this transformation of learning is changing their lives, including an impossibly articulate fourth-grader who said he created his own skateboard company and began loving school once he was allowed to learn at his own pace. We’ve been down this road before.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 25, 2015

Updated Think Earth units for third grade will be available in September 2015, and grades four through eight are in development and will be available online in 2015 and 2016. Each unit is aligned with Common Core State Standards, Next Generation Science Standards, and the McREL Standards Compendium.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2017

It was about this time last year, in January 2016, when Rudolph was working on a strategic plan that he hoped could address the needs of all MVWSD students. TTO is also aligned with Common Core standards and runs on the Chromebooks that the district had invested in.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

Averaged across 15 schools during the 2016-17 school year, the nonprofit reports an approximately 11 percent boost in the number of students reading at grade level — from 33 percent reading at grade level in the fall, to 44 percent by the beginning of summer. Related: Can Common Core reading tests ever be fair?

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eSchool News

JUNE 20, 2016

“Most schools that are working with this topic are teaching students to conceptualize new ideas and build business plans around those ideas—or to actually go out and create a company,” said Cheryl Lemke, who is president of the Metiri Group , an education technology research firm. “We

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

SEPTEMBER 23, 2016

In a recent eSchool News article, Carl Harvey, librarian and former AASL president described the ways eBooks can assist students in six areas of the Common Core Standards. She was named Rappahannock Regional School Library of the Year for 2016. Sarah has been a librarian for many years, and also a long distance runner.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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The Principal of Change

AUGUST 4, 2016

Your class will be covering all types of common core standards. The Genius hour and 20% time projects cover multiple common cores standards. Today, we are beginning to see educators, educational institutions and educational companies do new things in new ways.

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NeverEndingSearch

SEPTEMBER 8, 2015

In 2012, Lightspeed Systems, a school web filtering and mobile management company, published Web Filtering and Schools: Balancing IT and Educator Needs , a guide that explains in layman’s terms what CIPA does and does not require, filtering pros and cons, and best practices. Linked to the Common Core Standards for high school.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2018

An annual study of Broadway and the 16 top nonprofit theaters in New York City, put out by the Asian American Performers Action Coalition, shows that from 2006 to 2016, Asian actors were hired for 3.7 Related: Theater helps English language learners master Common Core: But can it close the achievement gap? percent of the U.S.

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MindShift

APRIL 25, 2019

showed her students the 2016 documentary Before the Flood , featuring Leonardo diCaprio journeying to five continents and the Arctic to see the effects of climate change. American Reading Company sells an English Language Arts curriculum called ARCCore that includes climate change themes. They range from simple to elaborate.

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MindShift

MARCH 2, 2016

That’s why companies in California want to bring people in on H-1B visas who will live eight in a room and do coding for a small amount above minimum wage. What impact do you think the Common Core State Standards are having on math learning and teaching? Copyright 2016 NPR. To see more, visit [link].

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Hack Education

MARCH 16, 2017

As Data & Society observed in a 2016 report on the topic, Description of personalized learning encompass such a broad range of possibilities – from customized interfaces to adaptive tutors, from student-centered classrooms to learning management systems – that expectations run high for their potential to revolutionize learning.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2020

Since 2016, when the couple launched an LLC to coordinate much of their charitable giving, the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative has committed $142.1 What Summit offers is highly rigorous, Common Core-aligned curriculum in a platform that is accessible to students and teachers.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Every year has its fair share of surprises, but this seems especially true for 2016. Here’s a chronological roundup of stories that made the biggest bang on the edtech industry (and to a similar extent, our web traffic) in 2016. What’s in store for education in 2017? Let history be the guide. Teachscape’s Tangled Tale.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

The program, called UPSTART, was developed by a nonprofit company and advertises itself as a kindergarten-readiness program. Now, a small but growing number of nonprofits and for-profit companies are saying they can deliver at least some of these experiences — and benefits — via the internet, and thousands of parents are signing up.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2017

To get a glimpse into what the next 12 months will hold for everything from professional development to digital learning, and from communication to virtual reality, 15 ed tech luminaries looked back on 2016 edtech trends to help predict what’s in store for 2017. Here’s what they said: 2016 was The Year of Video. And it has.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 29, 2017

I’ve called this “the Top Ed-Tech Trends,” but this has never been an SEO-optimized list of products that the ed-tech industry wants schools or parents or companies to buy (or that it claims schools and parents and companies are buying). The Common Core State Standards. Wishful Thinking. The Indie Web.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

” The company – funded by Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, Pearson, Learn Capital, and others – says it will remain open. ” “The Indiana Department of Education is seeking $4 million in damages from the company that created last year’s problem-plagued ISTEP test. ” Poor poor misunderstood LMSes.

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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. For example, states like Arizona voted to “replace” Common Core standards only to make minor changes on things like cursive writing.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 8, 2016

For this reason, many educational standards, including the Common Core, emphasize the importance of being able to read, write, and interact across a range of media, platforms, and tools. In the digital age, inquiry and problem-solving can span across a range of media and tools. This skill is often referred to as "transliteracy."

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. “ ESSA Would Handcuff a Trump Education Secretary on Common Core And More,” says Education Week , even though ditching Common Core was one of Trump’s campaign promises. More on the future of Common Core from NPR. Very unfair!

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

“Trump Taps Common-Core Foe Mick Zais for No. on Election Day 2016, closed at post-election high of $17.85 Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.”

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