Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

An AI tool that takes recorded audio from a classroom and turns it into data about who talked and for how long, it seemed like a cool way for York to discuss issues of data privacy, consent and bias with her students. With other classroom tools, I have to collect the data myself. It’s not a rubric. It’s a reflection.”

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 25, 2017

Here are EdSurge’s top stories of 2017 in chronological order—a healthy dose of optimism and skepticism, words of encouragement and caution for the year ahead. With copious data collection baked into the process, schools—and students—are already seeing results. GRAPH: Where Do US Teacher Salaries Really Go the Furthest?

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The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

Stats on the First 800 Episodes 00;01;23;21 – 00;01;45;21 John Davis Well, Mom, since you and Dad started the 10 Minute teacher back in February of 2017, this show has reached over 6.5 We have to go back in and continually edit, check for accuracy, check for bias, make sure it's meeting and serving the needs of our students.

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Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Here’s a few of the things we noticed on Day 1.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 14, 2017

While these disruptions have real-world implications for schools, they do not necessarily involve a breach or unauthorized disclosure of school data or records. For instance, as I’ve extensively documented , dozens of school districts have been victimized in 2017 alone by email scammers seeking W-2 tax forms via phishing attacks.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

ATLANTA — When Keenan Robinson started college in 2017, he knew the career he wanted. Georgia State is one of a growing number of schools that have turned to big data to help them identify students who might be struggling – or soon be struggling – academically so the school can provide support before students drop out.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

She is the 2017 New Jersey State School Counselor of the Year. When we meet with school counselors, one of the things that we share out is the data regarding Bachelor’s degrees that are being conferred in this country, and the number of jobs that are available. School Counselors Helping More Women Go Into Computer Science.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 2, 2016

The program announced that last year, participants like tutoring app company GotIt! raised more than $9 million in a recent Series A round , and handheld wireless sensor company PocketLab is now teaming up with Google to bring the pocket-sized lab equipment to the Google Science Journal. Based in London, SAM’s 28-person team raised $4.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 21, 2020

companies like Coursera are raising hundreds of millions at billion-dollar valuations. This milestone and the timing are where we wanted to be when we launched Brighteye in 2017,” says Benoit Wirz, a partner at Brighteye Ventures. “It In the U.S., Source: Brighteye Ventures: “ The European EdTech Funding Report 2020.” As in the U.S.,

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Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

PLATO had reportedly spent about $50 million to buy another company to expand the school grades it serviced. But according to Brekhus, now chief product officer at Renaissance Learning, PLATO failed to effectively communicate how Lightspan fit into the company’s strategy. We send emails, we have meetings face to face,” he said.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Aside from a handful of large operators like Bright Horizons, a publicly traded company, most programs are small businesses and home-based operations. From 2005 to 2017, the number of licensed small home-based child care programs dipped by almost half, according to data from the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 8, 2020

Weld North Education, an education company that has long focused on providing digital intervention and supplemental products in the K-12 market, has acquired LearnZillion , a Washington, D.C.-based based company that sells core curricula. Open Up Resources is among the other companies also selling products around the materials.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

million in a pre-Series A round from Partech Partners, Citizen Capital and Educapital, an education-focused investment firm launched in 2017. The company, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, has raised $7 million to date. What if we could better tailor literacy education to meet the needs of learners?”

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techlearning

JUNE 12, 2018

June 12, 2018—A new research study titled “ Ready Efficacy: Research on Ready Program Impact” demonstrates that Curriculum Associates’ Ready Mathematics and Ready Reading instruction for Grades 3–8 meets the federal funding requirements for the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA). In 2017, Ready materials were used by more than 3.5

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. At Stride Inc., Stride Inc.,

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2017

This unique approach combines a Student Information System (SIS), Learning Management System (LMS), Assessment Suite, and more into one classroom that shares data and has one login for teachers and students. Come by and see me at ISTE with PowerSchool on Monday June 26th, 2017 at 4 p.m. This is a sponsored content episode. Listen Now.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

Founded in 2014, the London-based company provides digital content from 2,000-plus publishers. The company has 33 full-time employees with hundreds of thousands of student users. But with the recent investment, he says his team is ready to scale to meet demand. The company has raised a total of $15 million in capital.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2017

In the spirit of benevolent friction, I’d like to share a few thoughts with our colleagues working at the intersection of education and technology as I reflect on 2017 and look ahead to the new year. But this brings me to another revelation from 2017: Many districts aren’t screening for efficacy when adopting learning technology resources.

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Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2019

It’s a trilogy in the making, and for 2U’s third chapter, the online program management company wants in on bootcamps. That was the focus of the company for its first nine years—or “chapter one,” as Paucek described in a conference call with investors on Monday morning. The two companies officially signed the deal at 6 p.m.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

From collecting data to parent communications to taking care of yourself, Melissa has something for every classroom (as well as a pretty cool pep talk!). Tuesday, October 10, 2017. Melissa: Well, the tech tools I’ve pulled out right now are a mixture of tech tools that teachers can use for data collection and also for students.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality. DeSchryver and Cavanagh will look at how ESSA is guiding the work of edtech companies now and in the future. When Public Education Data Isn’t Really Public : The U.S. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The college counseling company at the heart of the “Varsity Blues” cheating scandal did more than just help students get into college through fraudulent means. At one point, the Georgetown student, who is not named in court documents but who has been identified as James Littlefair, was required to meet with his professor via video.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

In 2017, two of the earliest and most established coding bootcamps, Dev Bootcamp and The Iron Yard, shut down , leaving advocates of the model with questions and critics with fuel for their case. To date, the New York-based company has raised nearly $16 million. Bootcamps as an entity aren’t working,” he tells EdSurge.

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Edsurge

MARCH 4, 2019

Shuttling the projects beyond the atmosphere will be the New Shepard spacecraft, built by Blue Origin, Jeff Bezo’s space company. Afterward, the winning teams will receive payload data, along with videos and photographs from the flight. That all changed when the band performed at the 2017 TED Conference.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Two years ago, the “college-alternative” company launched to glowing coverage on TV shows, raised $11.5 Fast Company, which broke the story , reported that the acquisition was an all-stock deal. billion round, led by Softbank, which valued the office-sharing startup at $20 billion in August 2017. million Series A round in 2017.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

According to Hoori Kalamkarian, a researcher at the Community College Research Center who also spoke Thursday, technology-assisted advising could play a role—provided that any data collected doesn’t algorithmically reinforce biases. For instance, which groups of students are getting flagged more, or which students receive more kudos.)

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 1, 2019

HOUSTON — Systemic solutions are needed to meet students’ basic human needs, Sara Goldrick-Rab advised approximately 500 college professors and administrators assembled at the fourth annual # RealCollege conference , held last weekend at a campus of Houston Community College. The for-profit company, which has raised more than $1.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2017

Company representatives are anathema to some, yet indispensable partners to others. So what makes a particular product or company more “trustworthy” than others? Below are a few higher-ed perspectives and suggestions on how companies can improve on these relationships. in May 2017. last month.

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Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. What he has yet to find—but which he says Y Combinator would be willing to invest in—are companies that can help support and run new school models.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 26, 2019

Now, using existing data in a new way, the postsecondary institutions involved in the partnership will track the progress of CPS graduates as a group. The basic agreements say that we’re going to work on these goals and share data. StrivePartnership played a role in defining what data we’re going to share,” White said.

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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. This, to me, is the art and the science of learning.

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Edsurge

MAY 30, 2019

I liked the idea of the platform for meeting a lot of people all over the world," she said, adding that she felt "part of a brotherhood or a sisterhood of people" out there working to grow their businesses. You start to see similarities between my company and other people's companies—and their challenges." Embassy in Belmopan.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

They’re abbreviations for major conferences for companies in the education industry. They have upended the industry and how it’s reflected in the events that cater to industry companies, investors, and executives at every level from preschool to workforce learning. and) ‘How can we help companies evolve their business model?’

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

Some states, such as Nevada, also restrict the use of state supplemental academic intervention funds to programs that meet federal research standards and are elevating the importance of evidence-based and high-quality instructional materials. That data is then fed into program and budget review cycles.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Because we have been around for a decade, we have a vibrant ecosystem of entrepreneurs, researchers, investors and subject matter experts ready to partner with new companies. We can meet the leaders of new ventures at any stage and help move them forward. Software and data now live in the cloud. Absolutely.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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