Edsurge

JANUARY 6, 2021

As we close out 2020, we the people are tired. Nicole Mason, president of the Institute for Women’s Policy Research, to name the mass exodus a “ shecession.” Time is the biggest barrier—the biggest point of friction when it comes to companies allocating time for learning new skills. The problem to solve is in plain sight.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

Sponsor: GoGuardian The State of Engagement Report 2020 has valuable classroom research and information on distance learning best practices. Download the State of Engagement Report 2020 now! Check out the State of Engagement Report 2020 and listen to Mariana discuss some of the most important findings.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

On the one hand, China’s private education market is projected to grow 9 percent per year until 2020, reaching a value of $330 billion—an enticing market for many American entrepreneurs. After a summer of market research and competitor analysis, the company eventually signed off on a collaboration with a Chinese partner, TAL Education.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Recently, some of her students help shape state policy towards refugees by telling their stories. 2020 NEA Foundation Global Learning Fellow Award ? 2020 Global Teacher Prize Winner Nominee ? The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

Some online tutoring companies have recently made changes to their platforms to better protect and promote students’ safety, especially as it pertains to online privacy, behavioral issues and parental discipline. Dozens of companies have since formed to offer a similar arrangement, fueled by well over a billion dollars in investment.

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Edsurge

MARCH 23, 2020

In the workforce-learning arena, Matthew Daniel, a partner at Entangled, believes that in addition to canceling face-to-face training sessions, companies are growing concerned about talent pipelines from colleges and universities as their recruiters will be unable to attend on-campus recruiting events.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 26, 2021

She bravely reflects on the real struggles, challenges, and quality of education in the school year 2020-2021. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 25, 2021

A growing number of companies have moved beyond training their own employees or providing tuition assistance programs to send staff members to higher education. million credentials to date, growing at a 61 percent pace from 2019 to 2020. IBM runs a digital badging program , now in its seventh year, that has awarded 3.7

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 23, 2020

The Stanley Black and Decker Making for Good Student Challenge runs now through Thursday, January 30, 2020 for students in the US in grades 9-12. The CITGO Fueling Education Student Challenge is for students in the US in grades 5-8 now through February 13, 2020. Unabashedly he stands as a voice for the people with no apologies.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

Chris Chappotin has been serving as Assistant Superintendent for Boyd ISD in Boyd, TX since January 2020. The company who sponsored it compensated me via a cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Leave your thoughts in the comment or tweet me on Twitter @ coolcatteacher.

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

In 2020, one survey found that approximately 5 million public school students were English learners–that’s over 10 percent of students. Policy is a key player Bilingual education will only continue to grow, but we need to look at it as a strength to support and develop.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2021

Beginning in 2020, the digital transformation of the economy and labor market took a giant leap forward. The economic dislocations of the pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need for worker reskilling and upskilling , which has become a top policy priority for cities, states and the federal government. higher education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2021

Cases like 2020’s Cayla J. It’s time for states to step up and realize that proper technology and WiFi connectivity are a must-have in public school districts, and that state policy is dangerously lagging behind. Still, no new regulations have yet emerged from that data gathering. For instance, prior to COVID-19, Section 12100.8

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The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 14, 2021

David’s bestselling book, 10 Things Schools Get Wrong: And How We Can Get Them Right was published in 2020. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. David oversees the Institute’s research strategy and its curriculum design and development.

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Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. Still, companies looking to do business in China face a “tangle of issues.”. So, based on the experiences of Coursera and other companies, what are some lessons for edtech startups looking to grow in China?

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2021

In the months that followed, many states and school districts mobilized, using federal CARES Act funding, broadband discounts and partnerships with private companies to connect their students and enable online learning. As of December 2020, the number of students impacted by the digital divide has narrowed to 12 million.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Now, as educators scope out a future of ongoing economic recovery, many are hoping the federal government, or states and localities in its place, make these policies permanent. According to findings from the Food Research and Action Center, from 2019 to 2020 about 3 million more people in the U.S. percent higher than it is now.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

In August 2020, Amanda Nemergut was looking for alternatives to in-person public school for her three daughters. It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

And in 2022, 36 states enacted policies promoting career training for high schoolers, college students, and adults, according to Advance CTE , a professional organization for state CTE leaders. For example, a 2020 analysis found that only 18 percent of the credentials CTE students earn are sought by employers in job postings.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment. The number of open badges awarded nearly doubled from 24 million in 2018 to 43 million in 2020.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 31, 2020

As it turns out, the company wasn’t done fundraising. Capitalizing on increased usage seems to be the formula among edtech companies seeking new money this year. Companies like Coursera, which helps universities build and access online courses, have ridden the momentum from new registrations to secure a $130 million investment in July.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 8, 2021

Joanna Smith, founder of an ed-tech company that helps schools curb chronic absenteeism, was thinking about how to pivot her company to provide services in a remote learning setting as many brick and mortar schools transitioned online last year. Subscribe today! Start from what is good teaching and learning,” Roschelle said.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2020

But now, with much of regular schooling happening in homes, the company has seen a dramatic expansion of its audience. To date, the company has raised $55 million. In the edtech industry, venture capital flows where business grows, and that’s been the case for the San Francisco-based company.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2021

When colleges in the California State University system sent students home from campus in spring 2020, it quickly became clear that some students lacked reliable access to the internet or computers through which to participate in their pandemic-era emergency remote courses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 16, 2020

Among them are companies directly reaching out to teachers and administrators, offering to help ease that transition. Chris Lehmann (@chrislehmann) March 16, 2020. Still, she appreciates the sentiment from company officials. “I Amen to that.” We don’t need email clutter right now. We need to be responsive to our communities.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Since August, VIPKid has warned its teachers, who during its heyday numbered 100,000, that the company would experience major upheaval to its operations in China. Others have joined some of the hundreds of tutoring companies that now exist outside of China, in markets such as Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Southeast Asia and others.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2020

The average cost of tuition and fees at a four-year, nonprofit, private institution was $36,900 in 2019-2020 for a full-time student. GPA, and were launched by July 2020. Tiffany Jones, senior director of higher education policy, The Education Trust. For an in-state student at a public institution, it was $10,400.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 3, 2023

In 2020, Nidhi Hebbar, a former education lead at Apple who later studied racial bias in ed tech at the Aspen Tech Policy Hub, co-founded the Ed Tech Equity Project. Oftentimes tech companies didn’t really seem to understand the experience of Black and Brown students in the classroom,” Hebbar said.

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Edsurge

JUNE 23, 2020

Instead, it will be absorbed into SIIA’s existing public policy division, which advocates for legislation on behalf of its members. Its 2020 summer conference, originally scheduled for May, convened virtually—but not without losing substantial revenue that it normally generated from its in-person event. billion in U.S.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 1, 2020

Through this partnership, PresenceLearning will support the professional development of CASE members by providing access to its clinical experts and influential partners, as well as offering exclusive webinars, presentations, and other programming throughout the year and at the upcoming 2020 CASE Virtual Fall Conference on November 5-7, 2020. “We

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2023

This story also appeared in The Washington Post Only in her 20s, she had already co-created an e-commerce website that rose to the top of its category in her home country, gotten snatched up by a tech company, then been poached by another tech firm. said Kate Hooper, a policy analyst at the Migration Policy Institute.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 17, 2020

The app was named a winner of the Tech & Learning Best of Show at ISTE 2020 Awards and the platinum winner in the STEM/STEAM App category of THE Journal ’s 2020 New Product Awards. The Tech & Learning Best of Show at ISTE 2020 Awards recognize products that are transforming teaching and learning during the pandemic and beyond.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2021

The district docked their pay after they used up their sick days , per its policy. Yet at the time, I expected there to be a more compassionate policy in place. Perhaps there could even have been a policy allowing these educators to use compensatory time they had accrued working so many extra hours.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

But new research suggests colleges’ policies around unpaid balances may also be contributing to the decline while creating lasting financial harm for the institutions and students. Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020. Between 2004 and 2011, I worked as an executive in SchoolNet and Kaplan, both of which grew into successful and innovative education companies. The only problem was that that world didn’t yet exist. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

h/t @johnauthers pic.twitter.com/nPQt41JqXs — Peter Atwater (@Peter_Atwater) June 3, 2020. It’s a product, in large part, of policy and investment decisions, and that is why the next stimulus—when Congress finally does pass it—is so important. The K-shaped recovery example of the day. It was survival mode.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 28, 2020

In bringing affordable education to the workplace, companies like InStride, Guild, Degreed and EdAssist are addressing the biggest issues in higher education: career relevance and student debt. DreamBox, (another portfolio company) invests in efficacy research led by independent third-parties including Harvard and SRI International.

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