The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

That kind of recruiting was a relatively new solution for IBM and other companies that generally require bachelor’s degrees for entry-level white-collar workers. It feels like we’re the kids of the company,” said Haruza, now 27. Bridget Gainer, Aon’s chief commercial officer, said the company is stronger for it.

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Company Training Industry Dropout 137

Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2022

According to Common Sense, between 2015 and 2019, screen use among teenagers (ages 13 to 18) increased by 11 percent. Enter the pandemic, which led to canceled club meetings and sporting events, online learning and restricted socialization. TikTok wasn’t as big a platform in 2019, and it wasn’t even a thing in 2015.”

Social Media 184

Social Media Survey Report Facebook 184

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

This isn’t because the internet is down or due to a device malfunction—it’s because the online gradebook isn’t able to share data with the student information system (SIS). When two systems don’t “speak” to one another or store data in the same format, it makes it hard to pass information back and forth.

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Data LMS Company Education 107

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 28, 2023

All three were produced by for-profit companies that sell assessments to schools. These companies may have a business motive in sounding an alarm to sell more of their product, but the reports are produced by well-regarded education statisticians. The most recent data, released on Aug. The differences are in the details.

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Learning Data Report Assessment 87

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 15, 2022

Readlee is an amazing literacy tool that enables teachers to go from collecting reading data a couple times a year to getting data each week (or day!) Furthermore, he was the parody writer and voice of Burleson ISD's school year launch videos from 2016 to 2019. in just 5-10 minutes. And I'll tell you, that was a big load off.

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Data Meeting Elementary Company 343

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 8, 2019

Vicki Davis (@coolcatteacher) August 6, 2019 Sherry St. Coaching schools to best meet the needs of all students is Sherry’s passion. was released in June of 2019. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend.

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Strategy Company Twitter Elementary 215

eSchool News

APRIL 3, 2024

This school year, at monthly meetings and during fall budget hearings, CTE advocates asked for a funding increase of at least $10 million from the Illinois State Board of Education. However, data on student outcomes is still unclear, even as school districts like Chicago and across the country continue to invest in CTE programs.

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Trends Company Meeting Industry 81

Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2019

Congratulations for making it through the first quarter of 2019! BACK TO THE FUTURE: Weary of unwanted scrutiny, companies that once described themselves as the “Facebook of education” are now scrambling to disassociate themselves from the beleaguered social network. One company is responding with a new approach. Why stop there?

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EdTech Company iPad Robotics 111

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Analyzing data from Burning Glass , Wharton professor Matthew Bidwel found a diminishing number of entry-level jobs requiring a degree. But for every tech position left vacant for two months (the average time to fill for tech roles), companies lose an estimated $30,000 , despite savings from salary. With two-thirds of U.S.

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Training Company E-rate Software 187

Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

From idea to scale, Catapult helps companies shape, develop and deploy innovative, proven solutions to meet critical educational challenges. Educators struggled to meet students' needs without proper technology tools, training and infrastructure, and edtech innovators capitalized, introducing much-needed solutions.

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EdTech Industry Data System 130

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2023

In the winter of 2019, a group of college faculty members, education consultants and government employees from the Department of Education and the National Security Agency were discussing how to address a talent gap in cybersecurity — there were more 300,000 job openings in the growing sector and no one qualified to fill them.

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Training Report Company Data 121

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

EdSurge Sessions In between hearty servings of Tex-Mex and meat, won’t you have time to stop by and meet? Where School Safety, Security, & Surveillance Meet Happy hour will have to wait, as we kick our sessions off with a sobering and important conversation that warrants your attention. Monday, March 4, 5 p.m.

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 102

Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. Other companies with products in the market are Bamboo Learning, Ello and Imagine Learning. “Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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Technology Assessment Company EdTech 171

Edsurge

JANUARY 21, 2021

And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Education Company E-rate Industry 218

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

It’s looking to acquire some companies as well. And it’s acquired three technology companies since its founding in 1947. Instead of writing small checks for early-stage companies, his team is looking to invest up to $15 million in more established ones raising Series B or subsequent rounds. Now, it is taking the plunge.

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EdTech Company Industry Assessment 164

Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2023

The company also uses a customizable assignments generator that it acquired, for an undisclosed amount, from a Bulgarian startup in 2019. Still, completion rates among people who have paid for a Coursera course hover around 50 percent, according to figures shared by the company. It’s a dance that Sourabh Bajaj is familiar with.

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Coursera Course MOOC Company 175

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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Data Training Outcomes Tools 217

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

Lessons will include how to select AI projects, as well as how to work with and manage AI teams within companies. He left the company in 2014.) Instead it will be offered by Deeplearning.ai , an online learning company founded by none other than Ng himself. Several of the courses Deeplearning.ai

Coursera 116

Coursera Course MOOC Company 116

Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

With support from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, Quill hopes to fine-tune its AI to automatically deliver more precise feedback for students as they work through its exercises. Currently, human editors manually grade sentences to create a data set that is used to train the AI system.

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Meeting EdTech Exercises Conference 114

TeacherCast

JUNE 19, 2019

This year, I had the opportunity to work with so many great educational technology companies on the podcast and I'm excited to have the opportunity to walk the vendor floor and meet everyone to say THANK YOU for being a part of the TeacherCast podcasting family. I would love to meet you! Microsoft Education – Booth 2900.

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Company Conference EdTech Microsoft 68

Edsurge

MAY 1, 2019

Check the Privacy contains a searchable library of more than 7,000 edtech products, with information about their privacy protections, compliance with major student data privacy legislation and endorsements by major organizations and privacy projects. It will be ready before the start of the 2019-2020 school year, Rectanus says.

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Student Data Privacy Libraries EdTech Classroom 140

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. In early 2019, the staff incorporated what they had heard from educators and other stakeholders to create the criteria and competencies of the research-based design certification. The premise may sound simple.

Education 124

Education Company EdTech Instructional Materials 124

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

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. Critics say there are potential downsides to monitoring student data so closely.

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Data Dropout Company Report 107

Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2020

Tech jobs pay well, and companies that train people for them have been enjoying a payday. Lambda School raised $74 million in a Series C round led by Gigafund, a venture firm that’s cut big checks for Elon Musk’s SpaceX and The Boring Company. To date, the company has raised $122 million. He declined to share specific metrics.

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Company Social Media Report Outcomes 93

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.,

E-rate 123

E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

Tactical student data privacy questions like “What can I do right now?” should be asked by all CIO’s, teachers, administrators and policymakers in this changing landscape of data access, student privacy and interoperability. Fruth describes this new data access landscape as a teeter-totter effect. The Balancing Act.

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Data Accessibility Student Data Privacy Libraries 41

Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

In 2019, total U.S. 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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Software Education Company EdTech 158

eSchool News

MARCH 14, 2022

They can also see usage data and remove specific titles from their collection using Sora’s powerful title and data management tools. Usage data is available to authorized educators in a secure student reading dashboard. The company’s student reading app, Sora , provides every student with access to the right books.

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Skyward eBook Data Accessibility 117

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Learner-centered education can play a critical role in reshaping education systems, offering a more holistic approach to meeting learners’ needs and helping students find fulfillment in their academic accomplishments. For example, learners might work with a local bakery, a law firm, a tech company, or a recording studio.

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Education Course Trends Company 119

eSchool News

JUNE 7, 2022

Noteworthy data regarding the 100 million books milestone: Digital book formats : ebooks (87%) and audiobooks (13%) Top genres : Juvenile fiction/nonfiction, Comics & Graphic Novels, Humor, Young Adult fiction/nonfiction, Fantasy, Picture Book Fiction, Romance, Historical Fiction, Mystery and Biography & Autobiography U.S.

Accessibility 117

Accessibility eBook Libraries Data 117

eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Based on the assessment data of 3.8 Designed to provide educators with targeted data to help them understand how students are performing relative to typical years, the report is based on the results of more than 3.8 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. million students’ assessments.

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Report Assessment Differentiated Instruction Comparison 109

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 7, 2019

Mon, 10/07/2019 - 12:55. Some companies that produce monitoring software report sending tens of thousands of alerts about cyberbullying, violence, sexual content and other concerns. K–12 Leaders Weigh Threats and Benefits of Increased Web Monitoring. eli.zimmerman_9856. The monitoring is not a secret.

Digital Citizenship 181

Digital Citizenship E-rate EdTech Software 181

eSchool News

OCTOBER 23, 2023

SYDNEY – Canva , the world’s only all-in-one visual communication platform, today announced the launch of a suite of K-12 education products as part of its Canva for Education platform, making it the first company to introduce AI-powered educational tools at scale. Translate: Make teaching and learning easy in every language.

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Resources Classroom Company Accessibility 62

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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Pearson Company eBook Libraries 91

Edsurge

MAY 5, 2020

In July 2019, Amazon Web Services (AWS) and SXSW EDU issued a challenge to the edtech world: Design an Alexa skill to transform education. We’ve been amazed by the creativity and impact of the ideas that education technology companies submitted for this challenge! Audrey Bierly, AWS Developers across the U.S.

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EdTech Outcomes Company Technology 123

Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

In addition, many other traditionally K-12 edtech companies, like Achieve3000 , have begun to look into ways their products might serve adults. And finally, the data that will be collected from the XPRIZE represents first-of-its-kind data from a large number of learners across the country.

Technology 176

Technology EdTech Mobility Mobile Learning 176