EdTech Magazine

JUNE 1, 2018

While IoT deployments are relatively new to education, industry observers expect the technology to make a big impact thanks to its potential to reduce costs, improve security and boost student engagement. To prepare for IoT deployments, IT leaders should start by thoroughly assessing their existing network infrastructure.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

ETS is best known for offering assessments like the GRE and TOEFL exams. And ETS contracts with OECD, which creates the global education assessment benchmark test known as PISA. It bought Edusoft, an English language-learning tool, in 2011 and purchased assessment provider Questar for $127.5 million in 2017.

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EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 14, 2019

Edwards activated Louisiana’s Emergency Support Function 17 , a cyber incident response team created in 2017. Basic prevention, it would seem, is the most important category for the education sector, which was ranked last among 17 industries in cybersecurity preparedness, according to a SecurityScorecard study published in December 2018.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

However, as some teachers noted, implementing these types of personalized projects can be challenging because of limited space, scarce resources, and altering assessments. Adam Peloquin, a high school science teacher, had to completely transform the way his students were assessed.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 3, 2023

Essentially, these credentials share a few attributes: They are skill-specific and emphasize industry-relevant competencies. But I think, ultimately, we're often talking about the same thing: a formal expression of a skill that can be demonstrated or knowledge that can be assessed as something that has been mastered.

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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. According to The Baltimore Sun , the company claimed users in roughly 10,000 schools as of October 2017. This marks just the second “edtech” acquisition by Google in its history.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

These include “a huge change in assessments and how people demonstrate mastery” in ways other than through standardized testing, she notes. There’s also the ASU GSV Summit, which Quazzo runs and is now known in the industry as the place where deals get done. billion in 2017. There’s even an MBA program.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Dating back to 1986, Renaissance Learning has established its name in the education market largely through its STAR assessments and Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs.

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IXL Learning Learning Company Assessment 188

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2019

education technology industry appears on track to surpass the amount of investor funding tallied in recent years. For the first half of 2019, the industry saw $962 million raised across 65 deals, the highest amount of funding at the halfway mark since at least 2015.

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EdTech Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Edwards activated Louisiana’s Emergency Support Function 17 , a cyber incident response team created in 2017. Basic prevention, it would seem, is the most important category for the education sector, which was ranked last among 17 industries in cybersecurity preparedness, according to a SecurityScorecard study published in December 2018.

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A Principal's Reflections

MARCH 4, 2018

Tom Murray and I have watched many book studies and Twitter chats unfold since the release of the book in June of 2017. The authors will dissect an approach to unlocking tomorrow's schools so that today's modern learners leave ready to create new industries, find new cures, and solve world problems.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 29, 2017

But it is also fraught with risk, and the tech industry has not done enough to mitigate the risks. While many entrepreneurs are investing in software to capture this burgeoning industry, there is still no solid evidence that students learn more or better when taught by a computer. I understand what a powerful tool it is.

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Technology Industry Software Data 153

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2022

Just having a genuinely consequential system of teacher performance assessment is really unusual in American public education” Stanford's Thomas Dee Dallas and D.C. Teachers who wind up rated “ineffective” are almost always fired, according to a city-commissioned study , which looked at data from 2017-2019. What Makes a Good Teacher?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2020

AdmitHub is one of seven education and workforce-development startups that Salesforce supported from its first impact fund, which launched in 2017 with $50 million. In September, Owl Ventures launched two funds, totaling $585 million , just for the education industry. Others include Andela, FutureFuel, Guild Education and Securly.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

In early 2017, organizations that have focused on digital learning came together to better leverage their strengths and capacities for a common goal: improving student success. But content is not top on your list.”

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Learning.com’s EasyTech offering includes self-paced lessons, application exercises, quizzes, discussions and pre- and post-assessments to prepare students for today’s online classrooms and the digital world. To learn more, please visit [link]. About Learning.com. Founded in 1999, Learning.com currently partners with one in six U.S.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 8, 2019

In that industrial-age model, teachers tell students what to memorize while students practice memorizing and retrieving that knowledge for formative and summative assessments. 40 (Hattie, in Magana, 2017). 34, well below the average impact of.40 However, there is cause for renewed optimism. John Hattie, 2019).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

The acquisition will hasten Roybi’s path to creating assessments on how kids pronounce words and master vocabulary, Sarraf adds. Founded in 2017, Roybi has raised $4.2 Acquisitions in the category of toys to teach kids coding include LittleBits and Dexter Industries. It’s not something you can build quickly,” says Sarraf. “It

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

And major companies and industry groups are increasingly getting into the credentialing game, exemplified by firms such as IBM and Google. Five years ago, the application of data and algorithms to the HR function—as well the use of pre-hire assessment—were in a fledgling stage. are hard at work on standards frameworks.

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EdNews Daily

MAY 14, 2019

Before being recruited and hired by the Gresham-Barlow School District (Oregon) in May of 2017, she served in a variety of school leadership positions in Virginia, Texas, and as an executive leader with McGraw-Hill Publishing Company. how can they assess what’s working and what isn’t?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 29, 2019

The average performance of the nation’s fourth and eighth graders mostly declined in math and reading from 2017 to 2019, following a decade of stagnation in educational progress, according to the results of a test released on Oct. The one exception was fourth-grade math, with the average score rising by one point between 2017 and 2019.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Yet despite it all, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, a stalwart in the K-12 publishing industry, says it’s been in a “sea of calm” as of late. EdSurge: The past few years have been fairly dramatic for the publishing industry—a lot of wheeling and dealing. Then as you point out, Pearson exited the K-12 courseware industry.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 16, 2017

Please let us know in the comments section below, or tweet us @eSchoolNews and tell us about the best thing you learned at TCEA 2017. Nepris connects educators and students to industry experts through web-based chat sessions about careers, topics and concepts students wish to learn more about.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

Grounded in decades of research into positive youth development and funded by the Institute of Education Sciences , our framework is a comprehensive set of assessment tools that help schools evaluate students’ mental health, social and emotional well-being, as well as several important risk factors. So what does that actually mean?

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Assessment Survey Learning Report 93

Edsurge

JULY 15, 2017

John-Michael Murphy had just finished up a long day of assessments on Wednesday evening when he received an email with some unexpected news. Most of us expected the possibility that we would be shut down, but if you asked me if when I was expecting it, I wouldn’t have said in 2017.” techatheart (@TechAtHeart) July 14, 2017.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

In 2017, 53 percent of the students in the K-12 public education system in the United States were Black, Latinx, Asian/Pacific Islander, Indigenous or multiracial. Another way to analyze whether a solution is gap-closing is to assess who pays for it. SV Academy brings tech sales skills to non-technical professionals.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

And of course, as has also always been true, when we field offers from investors, we work with our trusted partners and advisors to make sure we can assess appropriately.” Meanwhile, surveys analyzing bootcamps overall show that there is still signs of life in the $260 million industry.

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Industry Company Trends Report 62

Edsurge

DECEMBER 24, 2018

Chris Caren was nominated to share his thoughts by Arjun Singh, who wrote for the project in 2017. This is hardly a revelatory statement, but in 2018, authenticity in politics, business and the technology industry as a whole feels more necessary than ever before. Authenticity matters.

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techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

In 2017, Curriculum Associates placed 48th on the list. Only those firms with a headquarters in Massachusetts and revenue of at least $500,000 in 2014 and $1 million in 2017 were considered. Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. Together, they account for more than $134 billion in revenue in 2017.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 25, 2019

education technology, and early signs in 2019 suggest the industry is poised for another cash infusion. It launched in 2015 with $100 million , and re-upped in 2017 with a $185 million coffer. Recent deals in this category include Degreed, a digital credentialing platform, and BenchPrep, a corporate assessment and education service.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

Two organizations have been acquired (EMC School bought Zulama in February 2018, ExploreLearning purchased Cogent Education in November 2017). Cognitive ToyBox (Brooklyn) a game-based assessment platform. Since its first cohort in 2015, AT&T’s edtech accelerator has graduated 27 companies and nonprofits.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

edtech industry, that’s no big deal: In the first six months of 2018, 62 companies raised $739 million in venture capital. This year’s first-half funding total marks a lull from the same period in 2017, which totaled $887 million spread across 58 deals. The full-year tally for 2017 reached $1.2 But for the U.S.

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EdTech Report Company Industry 68

Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2018

EduLab Ventures is a new offshoot from EduLab , which is the parent company of JIEM, a Japan-based research and assessment group. edtech startups in 2017. It even dispatched an official from the Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry to share more about these plans at SXSW EDU later this week. billion total invested in U.S.

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Technology EdTech Education Company 130

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2020

The deal marks the latest in a series of acquisitions involving digital courseware, the industry parlance for online products that leverage data and technology to personalize the course instruction and feedback that each student receives. Its accounts on Facebook and Twitter are no longer active, as an education industry analyst noticed.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Its core offerings include formative assessment products such as Socrative (a startup acquired in June 2014), grading tools and reporting services. MasteryConnect was one of hundreds of edtech companies that capitalized on investors’ enthusiasm and optimism for the industry in recent years. billion in U.S.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 116

The Hechinger Report

JUNE 16, 2021

By bridging the gap between what high schools teach and industries need, P-TECH, initially a partnership among IBM, the New York City school system and City Tech, has opened doors for thousands of students in communities with high concentrations of poverty. Ninth graders are assessed early – and often. “We Credit: Liz Willen.

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Industry Report Groups Study 145

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2019

Launched in 2017, the apprenticeship program puts teachers in the field with a CDA on a fast-track to earn their associate degree, with up to four pay raises delivered along the way. per hour in 2017. For one assignment, she observed her students and assessed their personality types.

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