Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

In 2017, this was especially true while taking a computer science course on data structures and algorithms. Online education and improved access to resources are changing the learning landscape. Without any guidance, and sometimes shoddy internet access, this is no easy feat. do not have the opportunity to take college courses.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Yet the contract terms for these subscription arrangements—which some publishers call “inclusive access” programs—raise questions about whether publishers and colleges pressure students into participating. These goals could “push the rapid adoption of access codes across the institution,” the report states.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

That kind of recruiting was a relatively new solution for IBM and other companies that generally require bachelor’s degrees for entry-level white-collar workers. It feels like we’re the kids of the company,” said Haruza, now 27. earn-and-learn program in 2017, launching a 26-student class to its North American headquarters in Chicago.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010. Indeed, $2.3

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2020

This is the basic premise of Thinkster Math, a New Jersey-based company that marries replay technology with a tutoring service. The company has also undergone another marriage of sorts: an acquisition that will bring quizzes and other tools that help students prepare for the SAT and other standardized tests. It’s embarrassing.”

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Edsurge

JANUARY 1, 2018

We’ve rounded up our 10 most popular articles from 2017, as picked by our readers. Microcredentials, and controversial moves and pivots by edtech companies hoping to disrupt the higher education landscape. Here’s the 2017 countdown, from #10 to #1. So what were some of the most popular themes? Well, at least partially open.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 3, 2017

It’s no small feat making Forbes “30 Under 30” roundup, which in 2017 boasts an acceptance rate of less than 4 percent. And although no current classroom teachers are included this year, 2017 brought with it another batch of former Teach for America (TFA) educators. Shanyn Ronis (29), founder of Education Global Access Program.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 5, 2018

The increasing digitalization of education has put even more emphasis on internet access in K–12 schools , leading more school districts, nonprofits and government agencies to invest in programs and services to ensure each student is connected. . Characterized by bandwidth of 100Kbps per student and one wireless access point per 1.5

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

However, in exchange, education technology companies may have access to student information including biometrics, personal identifiable information and students’ geolocation. . With two known cyber attacks on education technology companies in 2017, the FBI warns schools to take extra precaution to protect student data.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.)

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2017

Not every company can be Facebook or Google, offering free catered meals and colorful open spaces, but there are ways to build positive work environments with productive and happy employees on a smaller budget. Building Up Values For some companies, mission statements only live on a web page. Looking for a new role?

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EdTech Magazine

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

The idea of using these hands-on environments teach complex technical skills like coding has garnered attention from major companies like Google , who teamed up with the American Library Association in 2017 to fund the creation of coding pathways in makerspaces throughout the country through the Libraries Ready to Code initiative.

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2021

For decades, companies have offered more or less the same deal to Americans in search of office jobs: You pay for your own higher education and skills training, and then we’ll consider employing you. More companies are assuming the costs and risks of preparing people for entry-level technology roles by offering apprenticeships.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 25, 2019

Monica is the author of Deeper Learning with QR Codes and Augmented Reality: A Scannable Solution for Your Classroom (Corwin Press, 2016) and #FormativeTech: Meaningful, Sustainable, and Scannable Formative Assessment with Technology (Corwin Press, 2017). Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2020

Its biggest financial backers are Tesi, an investment company owned by the Finnish government, and KRR III, a separate fund that Tesi helped establish. Other investors in the fund include OP Banking Group, Elo Mutual Pension Insurance Company, the University of Jyväskylä and the City of Espoo. and Asia have improved.

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EdTech Magazine

MAY 15, 2019

You have access to a limited library of games.”. As recently as 2017, educational technology experts expressed frustration at the lack of options to market and distribute educational offerings. . “How “If a school adopts iPads, teachers can only use games that work with the Apple operating system. The same goes for Chromebooks.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

When you buy the Rocketbook Wave Smartnotebook, you get access to digital copies of the Rocketbook paper that you can print out and use in a bullet journal or make your own planner. Those who leave a review between 2/1/2017 and 2/3/2017 will have two entries for each review. Void where prohibited.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

Back in 2017, a startup named Coursetune began selling software tailored to a very particular niche: designing curriculum. How that company has grown and changed says a lot about the growth of online programs in higher education. Our mission is to expand access to affordable and workforce-ready programs,” she says.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2019

Thousands of teachers have taken to Twitter this week to blast the telecommunications company and defend Remind , a school communication platform used for everything from announcing homework assignments to contacting parents when a student is sick. In the latter case, the company pays a small fee for each text sent. Of its U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 12, 2018

One company, Top Hat, is trying to shift away from that by opening up its marketplace of mostly OER materials to users for free. By removing some existing fees, the company hopes to thread a tricky needle of making OER actually free—while still running a for-profit company. In 2017, Top Hat nabbed $7.5

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 13, 2017

I think every classical literature teacher should have an Owl Eyes account just to access the annotations and lesson plans. Sign Up Before September 1, 2017 and Get Free Lesson Plans. If you sign up now (August 2017) for Owl Eyes, they’ll send you 10 free 60-minute lesson plans. How to Use Owl Eyes. This is the ultimate goal.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

writes Gary Davis, chief consumer security evangelist at McAfee, in a company blog post. The majority of schools aren’t negligent and many have put data security frameworks in place, writes Toni Birdsong, a family safety evangelist for McAfee, in a company blog post. That’s why schools need to step up their cybersecurity curriculum.

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Edsurge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. Without a national standard or requirement, foreign language enrollment and assessment varies widely by state, but Edweek reported in 2017 that one in five K-12 students in the U.S. Of the small portion of the U.S.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

She shares one computer with her family of five, lacks home internet access and uses a smartphone to connect online. As the years pass, the gap between Jennifer’s and Maria’s access to technology widens: Jennifer has everything she needs at her fingertips, while Maria does not.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 19, 2022

The system is now in place at around 2,000 colleges, and her company has raised more than $15 million. She credits her time at Stanford for giving her the confidence to see herself as a potential founder—and the practical skills to start a company. “I She called her startup Piazza. One of those issues was student privacy.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s rare enough for any entrepreneur to lead a company to a $275 million sale—in cash. But that’s how much Dave Dahl sold his family company , Dave’s Killer Bread, for in 2015. Today, it claims to be the largest organic bread company in America. He learned about it when the company reached out to him last November.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2018

Yet in the education industry, these deals have been few and far in between, especially as many of these companies have opted to build their own edtech tools. With Workbench , these educators will gain access to an innovative learning platform that provides lesson and project authoring, sharing, and discovery capabilities.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

For its second impact fund, Salesforce is doubling the size of its pockets to support start-up companies working to solve problems in education, workforce training and climate science, and to create economic opportunities for minority and underrepresented populations. There’s also Trailhead, its online platform for employee training.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

She is the 2017 New Jersey State School Counselor of the Year. So what are some of the resources that counselors can access that will help them in this area? It’s completely free and very accessible. School Counselors Helping More Women Go Into Computer Science. Link to show: www.coolcatteacher.com/e246. Date: February 5, 2018.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2016

2017 is shaping up to be a big year of what-if’s. Continue Efforts to Improve Connectivity In Schools Just last week, one of my portfolio company founders was excited to pilot a new literacy tool in a school in Richmond, Calif., Here’s what Shauntel Poulson, a general partner at Reach Capital, had to say. education technology agenda.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

In its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans. In Pearson’s 2017 full-year results report , the publisher stated that “we have concluded the strategic review of our US K12 courseware business and have classified the business as held for sale.” billion) in 2017. “It

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

The new company will retain the McGraw Hill name, but will be led by Michael Hansen, currently the CEO of Cengage. Like other established textbook publishers, both companies have reoriented their businesses around digital offerings. Banerjee told the Journal that taking the combined company public is a possibility.

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Education Superhighway

APRIL 18, 2017

We are proud to announce that EducationSuperHighway was selected by the San Francisco Business Times as a 2017 Tech and Innovation Award winner. The Tech and Innovation Awards recognize the most dynamic, innovative entrepreneurs and companies in the Bay Area.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

million across 71 deals in 2017. He co-founded eSped, a K-12 software suite to help districts serve special-needs students, which sold to Frontline Education in 2016, and has operated Blindfold Games since 2013 to offer accessible games to adults with visual impairments. The company will track student progress in the games.

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EdNews Daily

AUGUST 28, 2017

In June 2016, it became a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange (COE). 51Talk’s mission is to make quality education accessible and affordable, and to enable students to talk to the world. In June 2016, it became a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange (COE).

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2020

“This partnership aligns with our company goal of providing education solutions that are easy and effective. “Student mental health crises are increasing at an alarming rate, with internet access and social media exacerbating this issue. About Deledao .

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

It’s a big deal for a startup that was founded in 2011 on the bet that as internet connectivity and mobile devices became more affordable and accessible in classrooms, teachers and students would need a way to create and share digital content and resources. The company is also currently turning a profit, according to Carrera.

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