Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2019

Alan Aspera first learned he could go online to buy equity in private companies through, of all things, a book he read about a year ago. In February, the company hosted a crowdinvesting campaign on Republic, one of the more popular platforms to attract individuals like Aspera—unaccredited investors who chip in small amounts.

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EdTech Company Report Guidelines 106

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 16, 2018

So I started with her, creating the social media guidelines for the New York City Department of Education. Eileen Lennon is part of the team that developed the social media guidelines and resources for the NYC Board of Education. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. They wanted to look at things.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

These products have grown in popularity since the AAP last published recommendations in 2016. The guidelines also repeat previous advice that infants should sleep in the same room — but not the same bed — as their caregivers. The company also includes one infant study as evidence of its products’ safety. Dreamland Baby Co.,

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

In 2016 Purdue University announced an income-share agreement program as a new guinea pig experiment in which students could get money for college in exchange for a share of their future earnings. The company provided ISAs to help people move into higher-paying cities where they could earn more. Others worry about federal scrutiny.

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Company Report Survey Industry 68

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.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 28, 2019

While some institutions have tried to punt responsibility for the accessibility of digital tools to the companies that produce them, that reasoning hasn’t persuaded federal agencies or judges. In 2016, when WebAIM ran automatic testing on 14 web pages from 62 large universities (including at least one from each U.S.

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Edsurge

JULY 13, 2016

But here are some guidelines that we at EdSurge will follow on this journey of exploring the concept of privilege, recognizing “white blindness,” and moving from conversations on listicles and Tweets, into practice in our office and in our work. Guideline #1: Recognize the implicit biases in our own work. What do our races afford us?

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Without clear and concise language, the law became less of a requirement and more of a guideline. Dolan’s 2016 research “ Splicing the Divide ” tackled this equity piece with data way before COVID-19 reached U.S. Perhaps most insidious, though, is the issue of equitable resource distribution. Jennifer E.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2017

As the director of business development at Zinc Learning Labs , a literacy company, my bread and butter is communication with educators. It’s well known that screens aren’t recommended for very young children, and in 2016 the American Academy of Pediatrics advised that for children over six, adults use judgment and “ place consistent limits.”

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. As a Google for Education Certified Educator and Trainer, a Microsoft Innovative Educator, and an Apple Teacher 2016, Theresa has skills in educational technology that stretch across many devices and platforms to reach the needs of all.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2016

I argue that rural states are where edtech companies, investors, and media outlets should be looking to to see truly innovative implementation of technology. 2016 Wyoming Google Summit. 2016 Wyoming Google Summit. But is there a place that these initiatives are taking hold more strongly than others?

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NeverEndingSearch

APRIL 18, 2016

Recognizing that works are now published in a dizzying array of formats, MLA 8 recommends one universal set of guidelines that apply across source types. This lovely chart of guidelines , also illustrates punctuation. Publishers’ names are now given in full, with businessy words like Company ( Co. They are identified now a “vol.

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Handbook Guidelines Video Company 40

ProfHacker

MAY 11, 2018

Between 2010 and 2016, the number of social media users grew to more than a billion, while the number of complaints to the UK Advertising Standards Authority about social media marketing posts breaching guidelines rose by a staggering 1,567%.

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Social Media Facebook Software Guidelines 52

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

As a result of this new attitude, at least 14 state legislatures considered new laws in 2016 that would increase the amount of physical education or recess schools are required to offer or raise the bar for qualifications for physical education teachers, according to a 2016 report by the Society for Health and Physical Educators (SHAPE).

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Exercises Elementary Report Study 104

Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2018

Those professors’ individual efforts got a boost in 2016, when Gov. His office also oversees making sure content meets accessibility guidelines. College of the Canyons’ history with OER starts before Anagnonson’s dabble, however. The campus is home to several longtime advocates of open and free learning materials.

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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.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 19, 2016

In 2014, a student data privacy controversy sparked around the practices of a new digital learning company inBloom , which then kick-started a debate on student privacy and data storing and sharing that has not yet abated. Others argued that the company was simply protecting the integrity of its tests. Controversy over weakened laws.

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Student Data Privacy Data Pearson Social Media 40

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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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Shake Up Learning

OCTOBER 28, 2016

Google is working with a number of partners, including: WNET, PBS, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, the American Museum of Natural History, the Planetary Society, David Attenborough with production company Alchemy VR and many of the Google Cultural Institute museum partners to create custom educational content that spans the universe.”.

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Google How To Classroom Guidelines 28

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

By 2016, annual expenses had begun outpacing operating revenues by $14 million. DePauw University last year started promising job placement or a free additional semester to graduates who meet certain guidelines but don’t have a job within six months. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim. Business was flagging.

Dropout 70

Dropout Training Industry Kaplan 70

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

The 29-year-old lives in Beijing, where she leads a team at an education company that develops English curriculum for kindergartens and schools across China. For some people, the policy shift had immediate consequences, as fortunes fell when stock prices for China’s giant edtech companies crashed. Photo by jianbing Lee / Shutterstock.

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Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

The San Francisco-based company is best known for its rostering technology that provisions user accounts for software, and a single sign-on service that makes it easy for students and teachers to log into and use tools purchased by district officials. This latest effort builds on an earlier attempt by Clever to help districts test new tools.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

For instance, research done in 2016 from data and consulting firm Hearts & Wallets suggested that gig economy workers in their 40s, 50s and early 60s within a certain subgroup had high satisfaction rates working in the gig economy. That concerns Leith. She and others think the gig economy will work for some people, but not all.

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EdTech Smartphone Education Guidelines 131

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

In 2017, the same survey reported 44 percent of respondents found the EPC portal “difficult to use,” compared with 50 percent in 2015 and 2016. In fact, some applicants are still waiting on funding they applied for back in 2016. It’s not quite as bad as it was in previous years. 2018 applications are still in process.)

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E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 78

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

During the 2016-17 school year, 71 schools in the state used online learning platforms, according to the Mississippi Department of Education. The upside of using a company like Edgenuity is that it takes teachers time to build those resources. Last year, the number grew to 106 schools. Photo: Eric J Shelton for Mississippi Today.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2018

To put that into perspective, the poverty line for a family of three in 2018 is $20,780, according to federal guidelines. According to a 2015 study from the Wisconsin Hope Lab and a 2016 report by a group of nonprofits working on hunger and homelessness issues, an average of 13 percent of community college students are homeless.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 16, 2016

In May 2016 at San Jose’s Alpha Public Schools, a 13-year-old student named Jose met four Stanford computer science students bearing an Oculus headset and a laptop. Why are edtech companies and teachers interested? Fast Company. Two experiments at two very different California schools aimed to find out.

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Exercises Learning Trends Survey 60

edWeb.net

JUNE 4, 2019

Using CoSN’s blueprint for smart IT decisions as a guideline, the three superintendents explained how to align priorities, and balance choice with cost and outcomes to creative sustainable programs. Department of Education Secretary in October 2016. In the fall of 2016 Ann co-authored and published Life Lessons in Leadership.

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EdTech Digital Badges Software Outcomes 50

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.

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Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 58

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 24, 2024

Email Address Choose from our newsletters Weekly Update Future of Learning Higher Education Early Childhood Proof Points Leave this field empty if you’re human: Virtually all school districts buy web filters from companies that sort the internet into categories. The ACLU campaign didn’t focus only on filtering companies.

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Social Media Libraries Elementary Advocacy 69

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

Either way, he’s gone too soon; we’ve lost too much , too many in 2016. pic.twitter.com/BBhsgwY2FZ — Audrey Watters (@audreywatters) August 1, 2016. The work is also supported by companies including Apple, Google and Expedia, as well as education organizations including the CollegeBoard, Teach For America and STEMx.”

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

The Hechinger Report

JULY 5, 2017

on February 23, 2016, an incendiary email landed on a nonprofit listserv, blasting a federal program that many of the listserv’s members rely on to bring high-speed internet to low-income and rural Americans. based think tank New America Foundation, in February 2016. Photo: Clay Williams. Shortly before 1 a.m.

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Broadband Mobility Digital Divide Learning 86

Hack Education

MAY 13, 2016

“High school students will be allowed to carry mace in the 2016–2017 school year after the Rowan-Salisbury Board of Education agreed to remove prohibitive language and amend its policy,” the Salisbury Post reports. — Shane Goldmacher (@ShaneGoldmacher) May 10, 2016. Accreditation and Certification.

Education 52

Education Pearson Report MOOC 52

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The sale of the Apollo Education Group , parent company of the University of Phoenix , has been finalized. Student loan company SoFi will acquire Zenbanx. ” The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed. New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman has announced a $2.25 ” Accreditation and Certification. million total.

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Education MOOC Data Elsevier 40

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

The Department of Education has released its newly proposed guidelines for school accountability. On Thursday, the judge gave Google the victory , ruling that the company’s use of the Java API fell under fair use provisions. Its Crunchbase description is great : “TX-based edtech company.” More via Politico.

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

” Republicans are made because the Department of Education issued guidelines about how ESSA should be implemented. Testing, Testing… “Most of the questions from New York ’s 2016 state tests are now public,” Chalkbeat reports. Education Politics. “ New Education Law: Bipartisan No More.”

Education 45

Education Sakai Udemy Report 45

Hack Education

JULY 22, 2016

on Wednesday announced new guidelines that aim to provide more transparent information for borrowers and more accountability for the companies that manage repayment of federal student loans ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. Excluding the debt financing (it raised $275 million that way in January), the company has raised $78.61

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