Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

No commentary this week (not for a lack of things to say, just time), but one quick update: TV news reports of school cyber incidents are quite telling: sometimes for what they report, sometimes for how they report, sometimes for what they omit. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 36 Edition).

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 20, 2017

The 2017 EdNext Poll on School Reform: Digital Learning , which offers my sense of what those interested in K-12 educational technology can and should take away from this annual polling about schools. additions to the K-12 Cyber Incident Map , including a couple of new TV news reports of the same. Strong opinions may be weakly held.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

I have a bit more to say about some of these topics, so stay tuned… Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye these past two weeks – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition).

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

All in this Edtech Reports Recap. Connect All Students: How States and School Districts Can Close the Digital Divide” is a follow up to a June analysis by Boston Consulting Group and Common Sense. The report is based on existing research plus 18 interviews with stakeholders. That Broadband Gap Bar?

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Otherwise, here’s what caught my eye this past week – news, tools, and reports about education, public policy, technology, and innovation – including a little bit about why. A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 35 Edition). No endorsements; no sponsored content; no apologies for my eclectic tastes. and Marion L.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 5, 2019

This year’s Must-Read IT blogger list has grown to include a diverse group of K–12 professionals across the various media streams on the web. If you’d like to check out the Must-Read IT Blogs from previous years, view our lists from 2018 , 2017 , 2016 and 2015. Did your account make the list? by Eli Zimmerman.

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eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2018

A federal report on students’ home access to digital learning resources is months late, and ed-tech groups say the delay is impeding efforts to close the homework gap. “We think there’s a big problem, and we need good data around it,” says CoSN CEO Keith Krueger. “This is critical.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2024

A group of fifth grade boys trailed into the conference room in the front office of Johnsburg Elementary School and sat at the table, their feet dangling from the chairs. “It It was brought to my attention yesterday that there was an incident at football,” Principal Bridget Belcastro said to the group. JOHNSBURG, Ill. — million times.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2017

The report, Insights on Software Piloting in an Urban School District , released in December 2016, suggests key factors that influence successful adoption of edtech products. One observation from the report: “A key finding is that even among this group of volunteers, teachers’ actual usage of the software products carried greatly.”

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 7, 2024

Credit: Leah Fabel for The Hechinger Report Collegiate recovery programs began appearing at four-year institutions in the late 1970s, offering services like sober-living dorms, life skills classes and recovery coaches. A new networking group for community college program coordinators held its first call in February. and Canada.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

As of fall 2017, charter management organization Summit Public Schools (SPS), founded in 2003, serves 3,000 students across 100 schools in 30 states. In August 2017, Summit released “The Science of Summit ,” a report it describes as “15 years in the making.” Students reported feeling more connected to their own success.

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EdTech Magazine

JUNE 21, 2019

Speakers include a mix of educators, industry pros and other influencers , including Danielle Feinberg, Pixar’s director of photography for lighting, who has worked on Oscar-winning films including the 2017 hit Coco. On Tuesday, ISTE CEO Richard Culatta will join a slate of educators for a main stage session. .

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

What if you gathered a group of high school students, gave them fancy microphones and some training, and challenged them to make an investigative podcast about the issues they cared about the most? But getting the idea off the ground has been a lot of work, both for the educators in charge and for the student reporters.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 15, 2024

Speaking quietly to her 4-year-old students, she picked one boy from the group to count his classmates: 22. Credit: Alison Yin for The Hechinger Report There are teachers who should have aides, but don’t. In the meantime, districts are figuring out how to serve this new, and quite different, age group without a unifying roadmap.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Dreyfus said targeted instruction for small groups of students has years of research and evidence to back it up as an effective way for teachers to teach and students to learn. That’s a lot of progress over the last five years; in 2017, when Hayes took over as superintendent, Piedmont students ranked 35th in math proficiency.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

According to data gathered by Class Central, around 20 million new learners signed up for their first MOOC in 2017, fewer than the 23 million new learners who registered for a MOOC in 2016. Meanwhile, Udacity reports more than 50,000 paying students enrolled in its Nanodegree programs. edX: 14 million users. Udacity: 5 million users.

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

Teachers and students are well on their way to fulfilling the mission of seeing 99 percent of all schools connected to next-generation broadband, according to the “2018 State of States Report” from EducationSuperHighway. million students and 1,356 schools lack basic infrastructure needed for digital learning, according to the report. .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2019

A new report on the effects college programs have on student retention attempts to answer that question. From fall 2016 to fall 2017, retention rates for first-time, full-time undergraduate students seeking degrees at four-year colleges was 81 percent, according to the National Center for Education Statistics. Greek life: 3.79

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 3, 2018

According to Project Tomorrow’s 2017 Speak Up Research Project for Digital Learning , 56 percent of parents of school-aged children are concerned that their child isn’t learning the right skills in school to be successful in college or a future job. Technology impacts instruction in a positive way, the report states.

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Waterford

MARCH 11, 2021

The “accent” of a digital immigrant (preferring a printed report rather than one online, for instance) strikes digital natives as odd.[4]. Communicate with parents through tech: Use digital resources (like apps, texts, or social media groups) to keep parents informed about class activities and upcoming assignments.[10]. September 2017.

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EdTechTeam

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

The Emerging Markets team served 3,061 educators in 22 countries in 2017. Directly serving 750 educators in eight countries, EdTechTeam Latin America provided 397 vouchers for certification workshops, certified eight new local trainers, and supported three Google Educator Group (GEG) communities.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 14, 2022

After reading many reports and making many more phone calls, I realized the practice was common, not unique to this district in Tennessee. Collins Elementary stood out in a national dataset for its widespread use of paddling in 2017-18, in a state where paddling is more common and opposition to it is more organized than anywhere else.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 30, 2020

Photo: Fred Salinas for The Hechinger Report. We didn’t look at college graduation rates until business and industry started saying, ‘This isn’t working for us.’ ” Photo: Fred Salinas for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Fred Salinas for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Jon Marcus for The Hechinger Report. MOBILE, Ala.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 9, 2024

Credit: Kelly Field for The Hechinger Report Neither of those options is feasible — or even conceivable — for many residents of Hazard, a close-knit community of just over 5,000 tucked into the hills of Southeast Kentucky. But the council concluded in its report that each of those alternatives was “in some way problematic.”

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2023

“There are kids who can be successful in math, but the opportunities are not there for them,” Ross told me, in an eye-opening conversation that came in response to a survey The Hechinger Report sent to our readers last month. “I I wish I had some magic bullet solution but haven’t found it yet. And I have been looking for four decades.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 28, 2017

Every year at about this time, The Herman Group issues its annual forecast. “According to Randstad Sourceright’s 2017 Talent Trends survey, a majority (84 percent) of C-suite executives and human capital leaders believe AI and robotics will have an impact on the workplace in the next three to five years.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. Michael Seibel (@mwseibel) August 21, 2017. TechCrunch reports the company is forecasting $3.5 million in revenues this year and $1.5

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 1, 2023

where the net price has risen more for the lowest-income students over the last decade than for their higher-income peers, as USA Today and The Hechinger Report reported recently. (At At Mississippi Valley State University, the price declined for both groups but dropped significantly more for the highest-income students.)

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 11, 2022

A 2017 study by Harvard economist Raj Chetty found that many elite colleges, including the majority of the Ivy League, enroll more students from the top 1 percent than the bottom 60 percent. The remaining 600 students didn’t receive anything special in the mail, but were tracked as a comparison control group.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2017

A nonprofit known for its annual “Horizon Reports” on the future of technology at K-12 schools, universities, and museums abruptly shut down this month after officials discovered the organization was out of money. The group, based in Austin and started in 1994, has hundreds of college and university members. too early for Aprils fools.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

Vista purchased EAB in 2017 for $1.55 In 2017, Hobsons sold five of its products to Campus Management Corp. Hobsons also reported a profit of £6 million ($8.4 Hobsons was restructured in 2017 to focus on high-growth opportunities in Student Success.

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Educator Innovator

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

It’s even rarer for this group of scholars to span a wide range of disciplines and approaches, while sharing common concerns in research, educational practice, and social change. I encourage you to read the report if you’re curious as to why we made these changes! Photo from the final CLRN meeting in October 2017.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 4, 2023

In 2017, public interest lawyers sued California because they claimed that too many low- income Black and Hispanic children weren’t learning to read at school. Others hired more aides to tutor children in small groups. Blue dots represent the 75 schools that were eligible for the right-to-read settlement program of training and funds.

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eSchool News

MARCH 19, 2024

The data above were collected in Oregon during the 2017 total eclipse. For example, the widely reported phenomenon of the sky turning bluer as the eclipse approaches totality should show up in these spectra. The data above were collected during the 2017 total eclipse in Oregon. Compare the wind speed.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2024

Angrist and Pathak are both professors in the MIT Department of Economics and co-founders of MIT’s Blueprint Labs, a research group that often examines school performance. The research team hopes their study will lead districts to examine and improve the way they measure and report on school quality.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 7, 2019

In its most recent earnings report , which covers the three months ended July 31, 2019, Wiley disclosed that it had “spent $73 million in total on acquisitions in the quarter, including zyBooks and Knewton.” Brian Kibby, who took over from Knewton founder Jose Ferreira as CEO in July 2017, has also moved on.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 13, 2023

No group of children fared worse than preschoolers during the pandemic, as it erased a decade of progress with drops in enrollment and waivers for quality standards. The first state to enact “universal” pre-K was Georgia, where enrollment peaked in 2017-18 at 61 percent and has since declined. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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