Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

And in the market of companies tackling the infamous employment gap between willing workers and open jobs, this maxim appears correct. According to Manpower’s annual labor shortage survey , 45 percent of U.S. Census Bureau 2016; U.S. These workers recovered only 80,000, or 1 percent, of those job losses between 2010 and 2016.

Udemy 86

Udemy Coursera Company Training 86

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 29, 2023

The proportion of high school graduates going directly to college has fallen from a high of 70 percent in 2016 to 62 percent in 2021. It’s the brainchild of an advertising executive, Roy Spence, the man behind such well-known slogans as “Don’t Mess With Texas” and “You are now free to move about the country.” Air Force.

Industry 123

Industry Trends Training Groups 123

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2017

Offering these multimedia learning environments aren’t just add-on services for colleges; they’re now a necessity to meet students’ expectations—and keep them engaged. A 2016 study of 500 college students nationwide showed high expectations of interactivity. With today’s. EPUB 3 interactive e-textbooks, absolutely not.

Survey 112

Survey Study Industry Digital Learning 112

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

Some companies started to reverse years of “ degree inflation ” by no longer setting a bachelor’s degree as the minimum education requirement for open positions. A 2019 Pew survey found that 38 percent of American adults—and 59 percent of Republicans—thought colleges have a negative effect on the country.

Policies 99

Policies Training Survey Secondary 99

Edsurge

AUGUST 29, 2018

That issue led to a class-action lawsuit and settlement involving General Assembly and two former instructors, who alleged that the New York City-based education company misclassified them as independent contractors. But it resurfaces disputes that have become increasingly commonplace among companies that rely on contract labor.

Company 96

Company Industry Course Survey 96

Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2018

In 2012, the government of India stated that it would need to build 1,000 new universities and an astounding 50,000 new colleges by 2020 to meet expected demand as its population and workforce continued to grow. Surveys and sources suggest many college graduates are unprepared for the workforce. And that’s not necessarily a bad thing.

Education 116

Education Outcomes Online Learning System 116

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.” In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county.

Chromebook 194

Chromebook Study Company Assessment 194

Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

Assessment 120

Assessment Tools Blended Learning Exercises 120

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

A 2016 survey of such programs found that only about 4 percent of respondents offered field experiences such as student teaching in K-12 online settings. One struggle is digging through digital resources and “making sure they are meeting the standards” of the state. “We are very much focused on classroom teaching.” McGhee says.

Education 214

Education Handbook Course Elementary 214

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Originally developed to help streamline the process, applicants charge the EPC system with losing completed applications due to glitches, being confusing to navigate and making it tough to input and sort relevant data, according to a recent anonymous survey of applicants conducted by E-rate consulting firm Funds For Learning. I would say yes.”

E-rate 83

E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 83

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

In a 2023 survey by Education Week, nearly 75 percent of teachers reported that they had received little to no preservice or in-service training on supporting students with math disabilities. In 2015 and 2016, the city spent $6 million to roll out a new math curriculum featuring games, building blocks, art projects and songs.

Report 129

Report Training Elementary Strategy 129

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2016

New survey reveals how school leaders feel about policy, tech-supported learning. released the results of its Annual Education Leadership Survey. The overall results of the inaugural survey reflect school leaders’ focus on meeting individual student needs and building teacher and leadership capacity within schools.

E-rate 40

E-rate Survey Policies Technology Support 40

Iterating Toward Openness

FEBRUARY 10, 2020

Or remix existing open source tools to meet their needs. If we want to facilitate a wide-scale shift away from traditionally copyrighted materials to OER, we have to meet these other faculty – the overwhelming majority of faculty – where they currently are. — Bogdan Botezatu (@bbotezatu) August 25, 2016.

OER 96

OER Secondary Software Outcomes 96

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

Pearson 145

Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Fifth graders Davonayshia Hollis, left, and Denaya Rippey, review a group entrepreneurial project for a parent-approved music device, developed in a mentorship program, Thursday May 19, 2016, at Brooklyn’s P.S. 307 in New York. Schools and businesses can meet halfway to close the mentorship gap. Photo: AP Photo/Bebeto Matthews.

Company 106

Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 106

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Credit: Tina Russell for The Hechinger Report Cory Orr’s accelerated training program meets seven hours a day, four days a week; it will take him 22 weeks instead of the usual two years to earn the certifications he needs to become an industrial maintenance technician. I couldn’t afford to just stop and go to school for two years.

Training 134

Training Industry Report Company 134

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Inside Rosie Bus, a colorful minibus that crisscrosses the countryside here in eastern Kentucky, Paisley Barrett, 4, surveyed a tray filled with clear round containers. After reading about a similar program in Colorado, Kirk and Gentry developed the Readiness Bus program in 2016. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report.

Kaplan 104

Kaplan E-rate Report Tablets 104

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. We talk about the days long gone when companies trained employees from the ground up and now we’re talking about companies training employees again. “We

Sony 90

Sony Microsoft Industry Company 90

The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

Personalized Learning 97

Personalized Learning Software Data Report 97

edWeb.net

JUNE 13, 2019

In a 2018 survey , the majority of school districts either have 1:1 as a current goal or have already achieved it. Jena Draper is the founder and general manager at CatchOn, a company designed to support teaching and learning through the smarter use of data and technology. Data Analytics.

Data 45

Data Student Data Privacy EdTech Software 45

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 27, 2018

Between 2012 and 2016, the number of kids in foster care around the country rose by 10 percent. And while new requirements in the 2015 federal law governing education, the Every Student Succeeds Act , are designed to help this population, a Hechinger Report/HuffPost survey has found that many states are not living up to the law’s promise.

Report 111

Report System Survey Meeting 111

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2016

Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 11, 2016. ” Shares in for-profit higher education companies were up on news of Trump’s election. Via Politico : “Meet Trump’s Cabinet-in-waiting.” ” Via AFR : “ Peter Thiel’s company Palantir Defense could win contracts under Donald Trump.”

Education 54

Education Common Core Company Facebook 54

MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

A national survey by the advocacy group ParentsTogether found big gaps by income in the ability to access emergency learning. One April survey found 4 in 10 U.S. “I’m in touch with my students two, three times a week,” by text, phone, Google classroom and Zoom meetings, Concepcion says.

Khan Academy 57

Khan Academy Survey Dropout Meeting 57

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

Wayne Johnson, the head of the department’s financial aid division and a former executive at a student loan company , says that those “non-traditional” servicers could include companies like Visa , Amazon , or Goldman Sachs. ” Remember: Jeb loves Betsy. So much for democracy, I guess.

Education 46

Education Knewton Company MOOC 46

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).

Exercises 105

Exercises Elementary Report Study 105

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 School district to retain IT department | The Sentinel → Several members of the IT department were present at Thursday’s meeting to urge the board not to outsource IT services to a company that proposed to do so.

EdTech 170

EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 170

Barrow Media Center: Expect the Miraculous

JANUARY 12, 2016

After almost two months of working on the 2015-2016 student book budget project, the books are rolling in to the library, and the excitement is brewing. They created a survey, surveyed the school, analyzed the results, set goals, met with vendors, compiled wish lists, cut lists to match our budget, and helped order the books.

Libraries 28

Libraries Survey Company Twitter 28

Doug Levin

MARCH 26, 2017

Tagged on: March 24, 2017 School district to retain IT department | The Sentinel → Several members of the IT department were present at Thursday’s meeting to urge the board not to outsource IT services to a company that proposed to do so.

EdTech 150

EdTech Symantec Facebook Data 150

Hack Education

OCTOBER 21, 2016

I wrote “an explainer” of sorts on Thiel and his politics, and I listed the education companies that he’s invested in. Have any ed-tech companies, particularly those funded by Thiel or Zuckerberg or Y Combinator, spoken out about this? women of groping and sexual assault. More via The LA Times. ” “U.S.

Education 40

Education Company Pearson E-rate 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

In 2016, 45,567 young people were held in facilities nationwide, down 20 percent from 2012.) The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Just eight states provided both comparable educational and comparable vocational services, the survey found. Once they start, they really want to keep going.”.

Online Learning 65

Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 65

Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

” The proposal would expand the gainful employment rule to all schools that receive federal aid, but it would remove any penalties for schools that fail to meet acceptable levels. The “pioneer in the science of learning,” as Inside Higher Ed puts it , will help the technology company with its internal training program.

Education 45

Education MOOC Company Pearson 45

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. workers, a Gallup survey found. With a record 7.1 So did about half of non-residents who studied there.

Industry 65

Industry Report Study Survey 65

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

. “In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors after parliament demanded it halt operations in response to its failure to meet educational and infrastructure standards.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge.

Education 40

Education MOOC Facebook Company 40

Hack Education

MARCH 17, 2017

” EdWeek’s Market Brief on “Implications for K–12 Companies in Trump’s Big Proposed Cuts to Ed. ” Last year , the Ugandan government decreed that company’s schools be shut down because they failed to meet education and sanitation requirements; Kenyan courts have also ordered the schools to close.

Education 46

Education MOOC Company Report 46

MindShift

DECEMBER 7, 2020

In Vaughn’s state of Michigan, over 40 percent of teacher vacancies last year were in special education, according to a Michigan Association of Superintendents & Administrators survey with responses from roughly half the state’s school districts. The schools, the staff — they know it. And they’ll tell you, they don’t.”.

Education 49

Education Advocacy System Policies 49

Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

K98BwFMkIc @ryancraiguv #edtech pic.twitter.com/3mITJHvODv — EdSurge HigherEd (@HigherEdSurge) November 11, 2016. ” Palantir is the data analytics company co-founded by Peter Thiel and funded in part by the CIA. Another tech company ready and willing to support Trump: IBM. ” The company has raised $12.5

Education 40

Education Company Data Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 16, 2016

Pokémon Go, a free augmented reality game developed by Niantic (a company spun out of Google in 2015), became the most popular mobile game in US history this year. ” “ How Asian test-prep companies swiftly exposed the brand-new SAT.” This is part eight of my annual review of the year in ed-tech.

Data 40

Data Technology Education Software 40