Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2019

There has been a lot of hand-wringing about who will step up to meet the current needs of the skills shortage, and higher education has come under scrutiny, accused of not equipping students enough for the workforce. We need to move quickly to educate workers across the country for jobs in tech, finance, healthcare and more.

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Recipient of the 2016 ISTE Emerging Leader Award, recognized as a PBS Digital innovator for her initiatives in enhancing student learning with technology, Fox has also served as President of the Young Educator Network for ISTE, and received the President's Volunteer Award in 2018. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

Every now and then, it's been hard to do a call while the kids are screaming or something like that, but between meetings, to see them or have lunch with them or go on a walk with them, that part has been actually quite nice.” EdSurge: How did you adapt to meet the needs of students during the pandemic? They were real education.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The company, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, has raised $7 million to date. What if we could better tailor literacy education to meet the needs of learners?” That question led them to start Lalilo, a web-based program to support early literacy in English and French, in 2016. Lalilo has closed $5.5

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

As EdSurge reported, to be part of the initiative, companies “had to commit to providing goods or services worth at least $100 million.” But as Betsy Corcoran outlined in her July 2014 article , some companies had yet to deliver on their promise of clearly outlining how educators could apply for those products and services.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

A 2016 study by the American Institutes for Research noted that about a third of Chicago’s public high school students fail one or both semesters of algebra I. Math courses are “the most significant barrier to degree completion in both STEM and non-STEM fields,” the authors concluded. Jeffrey Coots, a Kentucky algebra teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 31, 2018

Pittinsky, a professor of technology and society at Stony Brook University, summarized the argument in the Harvard Business Review in 2016: “Different kinds of people will come up with different kinds of ideas, and the more variety, the better.” By not investing in diversity, companies are stifling innovation and growth.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

Alan November One problem is that companies are still making money off of selling those “$1000 pencils” as ways to improve productivity. So, can companies and educators co-exist peacefully in the world of edtech, while also working to redefine education? You go to these meetings, and people say, “Can I save money on textbooks?”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 14, 2016

Now, the Salt Lake City-based company is back to growing—this time, on the right track, its current CEO Mick Hewitt insists—with the help of a new funding round. This latest round brings the company’s fundraising total to more than $34 million. The company currently claims more than 2.5 We want to meet them.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

The next best option, typically, is to be acquired by another company, in exchange for cash or stock options. million to buy the company from Permira Funds. They kept taking away my ability to do anything at the company.". They kept taking away my ability to do anything at the company,” Ringelstein alleges.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

As numerous students joined the platform, and thousands of teachers came on board to meet this demand, the costs to facilitate the service were subsequently driven down to the point where 51Talk had an efficient and profitable business model. What were two top motivating factors behind starting the company?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

EdSurge will be hosting hundreds of local teachers and administrators, along with dozens of edtech companies from around the country, at our Summit on Dec. In their district-wide tech plan for 2016 to 2022 , Renton set a goal of reaching a 1:1 device-to-student ratio for all middle and high schoolers in the 2019-2020 school year.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 14, 2018

Once I was speaking in Virginia and some teachers told me I had to meet Pam, that she was a “teacher’s and student’s superintendent.” A past gubernatorial appointee to the State Council on Higher Education for Virginia, Dr. Moran was selected by her peers across the Commonwealth as Virginia’s 2016 Superintendent of the Year.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In. SchoolNet helped many of these districts—and benefitted as well.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 20, 2017

Gallot graduated from Grambling in 1987 and leveraged his HBCU degrees (Juris Doctorate from Southern University in 1990) to become a state representative for the area in 2000 and state senator in 2012 before being installed as the tenth president of GSU in 2016. Some companies are helping create what they’re looking for in suburbs.

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STEM Company Study Report 66

techlearning

APRIL 30, 2018

Students will also meet John Deere team members who are instrumental in the design, manufacturing and marketing process,as they explore how the John Deere 8R Family of Tractorsare produced today. Following the live event, the Virtual Field Trip will be made available on-demand through AgExplorer.com.

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Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

On an ordinary June morning, kids descend on the campus of Auburn University to try science experiments at the college of education’s annual STEM camp. Not to mention the widespread suffering stemming from a virus that’s killed 100,000 Americans. This year, camp is canceled due to COVID-19. By now, you can probably list them by heart.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 7, 2018

I really do build classroom cohort so that we meet outside of the classroom as groups where we can really collaborate together and plan together. In 2016, Debra was Johnston’s District Teacher of the Year, and was a finalist for state Teacher of the Year for Rhode Island. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2017

The public high school's claim to fame was its unique model serving grades 9 to 14, offering students associate's degrees in STEM majors by the time they graduate. This week the company announced plans to create 80 new P-TECH schools across the globe, Stanley S. Tendilla described himself as failing, unprepared and unmotivated.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 16, 2015

Nine New Jersey elementary middle school students are joining forces with Pearson designers and developers to help the company design features for digital learning solutions. Participants in Kids CoLab Hoboken will meet virtually and face-to-face throughout the 2015-2016 school year with teams from Pearson.

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Adam Welcome

MAY 22, 2016

Jessica is a 2016 NAESP/VINCI Digital Leader of Early Learning and an awesome person to connect with. Sphero pic.twitter.com/Q6vyJKI7wQ — jessica cabeen (@JessicaCabeen) May 17, 2016 The ability to collaborate with many different groups of people on challenging tasks and under pressure would be a huge asset to have in any employee.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

In meetings with his academic adviser during the second semester of his freshman year, Robinson said he learned that though his GPA was solid, the school’s computer algorithm saw trouble. Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2016

Companies, unsurprisingly, are happy to help "prove" their effectiveness by publishing their own studies, sometimes in partnership with third-party research groups, to validate the impact of a product or service. “[Educators] need to look beyond the flash of marketing language and bold claims, and dig into the methodology,” Huh says.

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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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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 10, 2016

Rooted was supposed to open in the fall of 2016. In a 2015 Fortune Magazine survey of nine tech giants – titans like LinkedIn, Facebook, and Google – six of those companies reported that black and Hispanic employees made up less than 10 percent of their representative workforces. That’s in keeping with national statistics.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

And then, of course, we take a picture, and we Tweet it out, and they’re recognized in their Morning Meeting, and things like that. Mrs. Yonker teaches in South Central Kentucky, and is a 2016 KY Teacher of the year nominee. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Blog: [link].

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

Modeled in part on California’s High Tech High charter network, business-backed programs in Georgia and South Carolina and STEM programs in Massachusetts, the school are part of a growing push to more closely match the skills students gather in high school with workforce needs. million donation from H-E-B in 2016. has a tech focus.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2019

With careers of the future heavily concentrated in STEM fields, it’s unacceptable for women to be left out of the space. Not only do employers need to have the largest possible pool of qualified STEM workers to succeed, business outcomes improve with a diverse workforce. We need more female STEM mentors and role models!

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

We have a blended and personalized math program that meets the individual needs of students,” she tells EdSurge. Lisa Palmieri, Head of School at Holy Family Academy However, Palmieri makes clear that HFA isn’t just using data tools created by outside companies. loves the learning analytics available from Think Through Math program. “We

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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. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

While students were going through the math remediation courseware, they were also meeting with their peer mentor on a weekly basis using video conferencing.”. So he struck up a partnership with Cengage Learning, a Boston-based education technology and information company. 2016 Institutional Awards. 2016 Faculty-Led Team Awards.

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MindShift

APRIL 22, 2020

The surprise hit of 2016 is a refreshing tend-and-befriend game with throwback graphics and diverse tasks that will keep you blissfully occupied for hours. Four can collaborate on the same system and up to eight online players can meet to work and play on the island.

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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.

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techlearning

OCTOBER 18, 2018

The Virtual Field Trip will allow viewers to meet two retired professional football players who understand the pressures of playing football through pain and now focus their efforts on discussing alternative pain management options with young athletes. “By Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

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. million, only 694 high school graduates from all of Puerto Rico went to college on the mainland or abroad in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 30, 2018

It’s a typical day at GSoft, a technology company whose meteoric rise from its founding in 2006 has required a constant supply of workers — and the over-the-top amenities increasingly needed to recruit and keep them. It’s to universities and colleges that many states have mostly turned to stem this flow.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 13, 2016

After numerous classroom projects and strong demand from their students, they decided in the spring of 2016 with the support of the school district to massively elevate 3D printing by installing a MakerBot Innovation Center, making MOHS the first secondary school worldwide with such an offering.

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