The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. Edgenuity boasts that the first case study in its long list of “success stories” shows how 10th grade students using its program “demonstrated more than an eightfold increase in pass rates on state math tests.”.

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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. And she's @AmandaFoxSTEM on Twitter.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

According to the fact sheet that the White House recently released, here’s what we know: Adobe has delivered creativity and e-learning software to over 950,000 students and teachers at more than 1,450 schools and launched more than 20 district-wide Adobe & ConnectED programs. Take Adobe , for example.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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NeverEndingSearch

JULY 21, 2021

For example, one of the things that we learned was that the majority of Hispanic school districts are twice as likely not to have school libraries as the majority non-Hispanic districts. Districts are also eliminating library clericals and paraprofessionals at alarming rates. Lance, Keith Curry and Debra E. Joyce : Thanks, Deb.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Credit: Amadou Diallo for The Hechinger Report. AFTERSCHOOL.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 4, 2019

K., & Bruegmann, E. The Learning Policy Institute says in their 2016 study, Well-designed mentoring programs improve retention rates for new teachers, as well as their attitudes, feelings of efficacy, and instructional skills.(32) Ask them to sit with you at the faculty meeting. 25) Learning Policy Institute. (24)

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. They tout “holistic” review yet boast about incoming students’ high test scores and aggressively try to increase applications so that they reject more, which lowers acceptance rates, which increases their perceived “selectivity” and moves them up in the rankings.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

The ratio of school counselors to high school students in Minnesota was 681-to-1 in 2016, according to state data. In Minnesota, that ratio was 681-to-1 as of 2016, according to state data , among the highest in the country. That’s despite the fact that the overall rural high school graduation rate in the 2015-16 school year was 87.3

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 21, 2016

You will want to share the following with your classroom teacher partners and your school’s edtech leader: Best of Breed 2016 (categorized favorites). Top 100 Tools for Workplace Learning (for training, e-learning, performance support and social collaboration). I especially trust their reviews.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 16, 2016

Amal Abdi at her high school graduation in June, 2016. It’s e-counseling 2.0. Early on, when Abdi assembled her “balance list” of potential colleges, the low acceptance rates and sky-high average SATs of the most selective colleges left her feeling inadequate and intimidated. Lauderdale, Florida, July 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

By comparison, in February 2016, Lawrence School District in Kansas got a discount of nearly 24 percent that dropped a $4.1 To win the 2013 contract from the Maine Learning Technology Initiative, Apple had to meet a long list of needs relating to software as well as hardware. In one extreme example, prices ranged from $4.97

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 22, 2015

Perhaps the single most significant development in ensuring access was the Federal Communications Commission’s (FCC) modernization of the E-rate program. Over the past 15 years, the E-rate program has achieved the goal of connecting almost every U.S. school and library to the Internet. Thank you for your support.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Of course, this context makes it difficult for healthcare employers to develop long-term programs, much less to evaluate and iteratively improve programs to meet their evolving needs. Roles that have the fastest turnover rates. Lykins, L., & Davis, E. Lykins, L., & Davis, E. Roles that need a greater talent pool.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 1, 2016

The class sizes at Enterprise Attendance Center are an example of these struggles. If E-rate didn’t fund our technology, we didn’t get it,” he said, referring to a federal program that makes telecommunications and Internet access more affordable for schools and libraries. We’re in … survival mode,” he said.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2019

He reads e-books and takes courses using a tablet computer. Lopez’s new gig, chief education administrator for the federal BOP, was announced in November 2016. “I An APDS tablet, which students use to study, read e-books and watch TED Talks. / WASHINGTON, D.C. Jerard Briscoe is away at school. It’s a plausible story.

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NeverEndingSearch

NOVEMBER 26, 2016

And, in 2016, we would hope college students, who spend hours each day online, would look beyond a.org URL and ask who’s behind a site that presents only one side of a contentious issue. Oxford Dictionaries recently announced post-truth as its 2016 international Word of the Year. Post-truth or truthiness.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. ” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” It’s another great example of why people who call for “ Uber for Education ” are probably pretty shady. ” Oh look.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 18, 2017

She seemed to fail to grasp some of the basics of education policy – the difference between “ proficiency ” and “ growth ,” for example, and the federal rules surrounding disability rights and education. Via The New York Times : “ Big Ten Universities Entering a New Realm: E-Sports.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. The startup was later sold to Valore Education in 2015 , which was in turn acquired by Follett in 2016 , which in turn shut down the Boundless site in 2017. Certainly “free” works well for cash-strapped schools.

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Hack Education

MARCH 8, 2017

Wheeler had been a “champion” of net neutrality and E-rate reform, according to Education Week at least, but his replacement, Trump appointee Ajit Pai, seems poised to lead the agency with a very different set of priorities – and those priorities will likely shape in turn what happens to ed-tech under Trump. .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

I think it’s safe to say, for example, that venture capital investment has fallen off rather precipitously this year. The total dollars invested in 2016 are off by about $2 billion from this time last year; the number of deals are down by a third; and the number of acquisitions are off by about 20%. Funding has shrunk.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

” “Behind Randi Weingarten ’s secret meeting with Steve Bannon ” by Mike Klonsky. “How can online learning help Canadian colleges meet the challenges ahead?” ” Via Newsweek : “Meet Naomi Wu , Target of an American Tech Bro Witchhunt.” The George W. ” asks WonkHE.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Clayton Christensen and Michael Horn, for example, predicted in their 2008 book Disrupting Class that by 2019 half of all high school classes would be taught via the Internet. The California Virtual Academies was forced to refund some $2 million to the state’s Department of Education for improperly used funds this year, for example.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2017

Via Zion Market Research : “ Massive Open Online Course Market : Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends, and Forecasts 2016-2024.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ ACICS -Accredited Colleges Meet Federal Deadline.” ” Not Tressie McMillan Cottom, for example. Upgrades and Downgrades.

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MOOC Education Robotics Report 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 19, 2016

Officials gave themselves till 2016 to show progress. There have been some improvements, such as new schools and higher graduation rates, but there is still a long way to go. The graduation rate is up to 66 percent and the percentage of those graduates who are not ready for college level work has dipped from 76 to 66.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

Board of Education school-segregation decision, Williams saw a post on Facebook shared by an old high-school friend she knew from her days playing trumpet in the Gardendale marching band: The newly empowered Gardendale Board of Education would be meeting in a few hours. I wanted to be a perfect example of why they should include them.”.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 6, 2016

The cost of developing courses, for universities, remains incredibly high – $350,000 for each course that was part of the Georgia Tech and Udacity partnership, for example. Coursera launched “ Coursera for Business ” in August, for example, just a few weeks after Koller announced her departure from the company.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

It also treats “ed-tech” primarily as a product built by engineers, not for example, constructed through the practices of educators or students themselves – problems with education are, in this framework, engineering problems. And now, the final weeks of 2016 revolve around what will happen after January 20, 2017.

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