Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Empower Learning , a Utah-based developer of a learning management system (LMS), understands this pressure well. Eight years ago, some of its customers requested that Empower support the Schools Interoperability Framework (SIF) , an open data interoperability standard that was then in vogue with K-12 schools and districts.

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Data LMS Company Education 115

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

New pre-released data from the Learning Counsel’s 2019 Survey indicates that 58 percent of schools now rate their highest pressure is their student’s social and emotional needs. Student rights to equitable education sometimes mean the district can’t even close costly small school outposts to consolidate into central locations. .

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Industry Survey System Academic Standards 100

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

Part of what I believe to be the truth,” Camelback’s founder and CEO, Aaron Walker tells EdSurge, “is that education is a long-tail game. James Kim, co-founder and executive director of BEAT (short for Bridging Education & Art Together), is on a mission to “take the ‘speech’ and the ‘therapy’ out of speech therapy,” he says.

Education 131

Education Social Media Groups Company 131

Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

For the first purchase in the company’s 8-year history, it will acquire Dragonbox , which offers a suite of math educational games, for $18 million in a cash-and-stock purchase. The program includes tablets and apps, along with print workbooks, lesson plans and physical manipulatives aligned to national academic standards.

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Company Academic Standards Industry Tablets 99

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

Last week, the topic was distance learning. As with every episode, there is a larger meta layer--in this case, why the jobs exist in the first place, and whether we are providing nearly 2 billion children and teenagers with the best solutions to the problem of learning. Department of Education. and elsewhere.

Policies 36

Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Maybe, we need to look at educators in a new context of what teaching really is in most schools, and whether it should be given cultural, economic and technological change. They deliver specific chunks of knowledge that are outlined by academic standards and required by school policy in the curriculum, not random tangents of knowledge.

Khan Academy 145

Khan Academy Academic Standards Software Exercises 145

MindShift

APRIL 29, 2019

But they say the discussions are helping them to become better educators within a system in which predominantly white staff teach in schools with significant numbers of black and Latino students. But even advocates for such trainings caution that all they can really do is raise awareness of educators’ personal biases.

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Training Meeting Report Groups 49

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 19, 2023

In just the past eight years, American confidence in higher education has dropped from 57 percent to 36 percent, with more saying they have “very little” confidence than a “great deal.” The “Varsity Blues” admissions scandal in 2019 perhaps epitomizes what bothers Americans about elite higher education.

Kaplan 117

Kaplan Academic Standards Report Examples 117

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2021

Emily, who loves math and wants to be a pharmacist, said that she’s nervous about how hard the classes may be but that she’s eager for a “better education.” O’Bryant School of Mathematics and Science — go to college, compared with 55 percent in the rest of the district, according to state data from 2019.

Policies 125

Policies Report Groups System 125

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

I invest in education technology, but decades before I knew what a venture capitalist was, I was a history teacher in a small town in America’s heartland where I started my school’s first “Internet club.” But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming.

Comparison 131

Comparison Academic Standards Technology Social Media 131

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2019

What started as a treasure hunt had become a logic game in Quitman’s state-funded pre-K classroom, a free early learning experience that’s only recently become available to a small number of students in Mississippi. Early education sets the train in motion for where children are going to end up.”. million funding boost — $3.5

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Elementary Data Training Report 71