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The Edtech Revolution: 2010 – 2017

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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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How Teaching Online Can Change Your Life

EdNews Daily

However, in 2017, little did I know my life was about to take a shift that I never saw coming my way, and it would be one of the surprises and grand opportunities of a lifetime. In ending, this opportunity to has given me the chance to meet some phenomenal teachers, educators, tutors, business people, education pioneers, and more.

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ISTE 2017 Preview: What to Expect from This Year’s Conference

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As we countdown to ISTE 2017 , here’s a few things we’re excited to see, do, and learn about during the conference. Over 20 of ISTE’s many workshop and lectures promise to support educators in building thoughtful, confident writers through multimedia texts and digital tools like Google’s G Suite for Education and Frontier.

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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market

Edsurge

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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?Meet Intel Education Accelerator’s Newest Cohort of EdTech Visionaries

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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. prices on a by-school or company basis.

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4 Questions to Lay the Foundation for a “Culture of Innovation”

The Principal of Change

In this month’s post revisit, I am revisiting a post I wrote in 2017 titled, 4 Questions to Lay the Foundation for a “Culture of Innovation.” Are people more likely to complain after a professional learning meeting than during one? . What does the time look like in staff meetings or professional learning time?

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Thinkful Raises $9.6M to Grow In-Person Hubs for Its Online Coding Bootcamp

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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.