The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 4, 2024

Shannan Bittle, a secondary math specialist for Union, said new academic programs — like aviation and construction — could offer students more ways to apply higher levels of math in lucrative jobs. “We Since 2016, the diversity of students enrolled in the district’s advanced math courses has increased.

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eSchool News

JUNE 27, 2016

eSchool News, in partnership with Xirrus , provider of next generation, cloud-enabled Wi-Fi networks, invites K-12 schools and districts nationwide to participate in the first ever Innovate to Educate Awards program, kicking off June 27 at the ISTE 2016 conference at Xirrus Booth No.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

The company announced today it is making a commitment to do the following: Invest at least $10 million in new scholarships for Black students to attend K12-powered private schools, which includes three private K-12 institutions and the award-winning Galvanize programs in data science and software engineering. Department of Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 1, 2016

You can join now through July 6, 2016. (Will open again December 26 – January 4.). We’ll first start talking about target number of hours to work for the 2016-2017 school year in October. There is a group for elementary (K-5) and one for secondary. Remember, this enrollment is only through July 6th, 2016.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2020

To manage these tasks, the foundation contracted with a company called Kaleidoscope , a Minneapolis-based provider of a platform that connects companies, foundations and high-net-worth individuals offering scholarships and grants to students seeking financial aid. Loans are an outdated ineffective solution,” says Dehn, 44.

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The nonprofit publisher of K-12 curriculum launched in 2016 expecting an audience for its digital offerings. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. Just ask Jessica Reid Sliwerski, CEO of Open Up Resources.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

Whether teachers continue to use these tools or ditch them in favor of new ones, graphing technology will likely always have a place in secondary math education. Another review , conducted by respected researchers in math education (but funded by a calculator company), came to a similar conclusion. Understanding Math.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Their hope is that these programs will help pave the way toward the kind of supportive environment that education technology companies need to survive. Many of the most eager entrepreneurs were first timers—often very young people with little experience in building companies or even in teaching—but driven by a passion for education.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

So the CEO of the Boston-based company sat in on classrooms in over 12 schools. Scaling an education technology company has been an ongoing lesson for Arbaji. Origins in Jordan Arbaji’s decision to start an education company is rooted in how education shaped his own life. The company had raised $3 million in seed funding.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2018

million students participated in secondary-level CTE nationwide in 2016-17, and more than 61,000 of them were in Massachusetts. College is a solution for young people who need to advance quickly on the job and for companies that need skilled, educated workers with the potential to rise far beyond entry-level positions.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 8, 2018

Red states are where the annual issuance of new high school equivalency diplomas has fallen by more than 50 percent between 2012 and 2016. Specifically, the annual number of test takers who completed one of the three exams has fallen more than 45 percent from more than 570,000 in 2012 to roughly 310,000 in 2016. Data source: Thomas J.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Secondary schools can only take in 36 percent of students who finish primary school. In South Africa, the youth unemployment rate topped 50 percent in 2016. In return, Injini takes up to 15 percent of equity in each company. “We Sometimes a school chain will even buy out a company.” Yet the U.S.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

Francisco Partners, a leading global investment firm that specializes in partnering with technology businesses, acquired the Company in 2018 and will remain a major shareholder. The new investment from Blackstone will enable the Company to further accelerate organic growth initiatives and innovation across its product suite.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

In a crowded hotel lobby in New Orleans the day after Thanksgiving, primary and secondary students and playful adults threw paper planes towards a target for a prize of $50. The percentage of jobs that require low levels of digital skill dropped from 56 percent in 2002 to 30 percent in 2016. Photo: Andre Perry for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2020

Avida is the husband of Coursera co-founder Daphne Koller, and one of the first board members of the company that helped put the spotlight on massive online open courses, or MOOCs. Koller, who left Coursera in 2016, is currently CEO of Insitro, a drug-development startup that raised $143 million in May.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2017

After a lull in 2016, venture activity for U.S.-based So far this year, these companies raised over $1.2 By contrast, in 2016, investors put $1 billion into 138 deals. educational technology companies whose primary purpose is to improve outcomes for teachers and learners across K-12 and higher education. edtech companies.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

A few weeks back, EdSurge published a podcast interview with education consultant and commentator Alan November, and Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District Mike Dorsey, after chatting with the two education experts at ISTE. There still seems to be a big demand for that.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 24, 2017

One of the national winners from the 2015-2016 program was a group of middle school students from Colorado. Selected 2016-2017 National Finalist Schools and Projects. Secondary School for Journalism *. Colorado Students Engineer a Prosthetic for a Veteran. This blog post is sponsored by Samsung Solve for Tomorrow. Ends 11/9/17.

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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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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2018

For Pearson, the world’s largest education company, some of its recent tumult in past years have been self-imposed, even deliberate, under the helm of John Fallon. In 2016 the company reported a $3.3 A lot of money that perhaps we used to spend acquiring companies, we are now investing organically.

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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.

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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. Some companies already encourage their employees to mentor young people through formal or informal programs.

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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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Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2017

Formed in December 2016 by the Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education (MESE) and the. Kenneth Klau, Director of Digital Learning, Massachusetts Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. You can personalize learning just fine without technology. Sometimes, it is just a distraction. This is wrong.”.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

Along the way, the company has added features for teachers to manage several classes and invite collaborators, as well as adding the API for administrators and developers to integrate Classroom with outside applications. One industry observer doesn’t think Google will replacing existing learning management systems. “I

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eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

Under this initiative, children who will be starting kindergarten in fall 2016 will receive a free summer subscription to Smarty Ants®, an effective, research-based literacy program designed specifically for young learners. Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

But as educators and edtech companies look to track the most effective tools and practices, two big questions are at the fore: How do we measure technology’s effectiveness? Mike Dorsey, Director of Secondary Curriculum, Instruction, and Assessment for the Houston Independent School District, felt the same.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Technology companies offer their products as the solution, and technology advocates promote the narrative of techno-solutionism. If schools are struggling right now, education technology companies — and technology companies in general — are not. Tech companies are dominating the stock market. Let me fix that sentence.

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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. A Collaboration, Presentation and Writing Assessment Guide.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 22, 2019

Sarah Cavanaugh, author of The Spark of Learning: Energizing the College Classroom with the Science of Emotion (2016) , describes how we can energize our students’ learning by heightening curiosity, encouraging mindfulness and capturing learners’ attention. Thankfully, there is a renewed emphasis on how emotions can spark learning.

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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. A Foundation of Research You wouldn’t necessarily know it from the pandemic-era panic, but online education for elementary and secondary schools is not new.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 4, 2016

Visa holders can only attend public secondary schools for one year and must pay tuition to public school districts, fees that normally range from $3,000 to $10,000 a year , according to the U.S. The number of Taiwanese students attending public K-12 schools on an F-1 visa rose from just four in 2006 to 29 in 2016. State Department.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 10, 2018

For the 2016–2017 school year, Jamie received an Excellence in Teaching award and was one of three finalists for Teacher of the Year in Oakland Unified School District. 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.

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techlearning

MAY 4, 2018

Las Vegas, Nevada, May 4, 2018 — On March 16, 2016, Governor Brian Sandoval issued an executive order instituting changes regarding workforce development to ensure a highly-skilled, diverse workforce, and to pave the way for innovative workforce development programs that support the labor market needs of Nevada.

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edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Chis currently leads Growth & Impact at Abl, a mission-driven ed tech company offering next-generation scheduling solutions. Prior to Abl, Chris was the CEO of Zaption, an innovator in interactive video for learning; the company was acquired by Workday in 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Those entrepreneurs have created a platform, and company, called Siembra — a Spanish word for sowing seeds — that reaches out to low-income, first-generation and racial and ethnic minority high school students on their ever-present smartphones, nagging them to stay on track the same way college-educated parents of wealthier kids do.

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TeachThought - Learn better.

AUGUST 25, 2015

The Think Earth Environmental Education Foundation, a leading non-profit provider of environmental education for primary and secondary schools, is making its award-winning curriculum available free online. Hilton Foundation, and Southern California Gas Company, along with others. by TeachThought Staff. From a Press Release.

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