eSchool News

DECEMBER 21, 2015

“It’s where the jobs are,” said Dr. Kathleen Airhart, deputy commissioner for the Tennessee Department of Education. Zach Wamp, who chairs the Learning Blade advisory board, said STEM education is critical to the nation’s competitiveness. She likes the individualized approach used by Learning Blade.

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Tools STEM Secondary Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

You’re in purgatory,” said Nicole Smith, vice president of Georgetown University’s Center on Education and the Workforce. By 2025, more than 60 percent of Georgia jobs will require some kind of post-secondary education, and now only 45 percent of the state’s young adults meet that criterion.

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Dropout Study Report System 89

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2017

This has happened as Georgia officials – like those in many other states – are pushing to increase the number of young residents who have some kind of post-secondary education. Folks aren’t just asking for higher education to be supported because it’s a nice thing. Related: The new North-South divide: public higher education.

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Policies Report Study Data 60

edWeb.net

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Schools and districts can continue to benefit from the federal government’s stimulus dollars through the American Rescue Plan (ARP) of 2021, the third iteration of the Elementary and Secondary School Emergency Relief Fund (ESSER). Education experts highlighted how the ARP works in a recent edLeader Panel , sponsored by NetRef.

Mobile Learning 85

Mobile Learning EdTech Company Data 85

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

While the overall proportion of Americans with higher educations has been slowly increasing, the proportions who are Black, Native American or Hispanic — like Navejas — are falling further behind, or staying no better than level. Mamie Voight, interim president, Institute for Higher Education Policy.

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Report Trends Survey Comparison 145

Edsurge

DECEMBER 15, 2016

She began a long career in education, which included cofounding two social enterprise organizations (one of which helped get 4,000 women off welfare), serving as a Commissioner of San Francisco Unified School District’s Board of Education and starting two edtech companies.

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Meeting Education Secondary EdTech 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 11, 2016

One of education technologies’s greatest luminaries passed away this year. Seymour, as my friend Gary Stager has described him , was the “inventor of everything (good) in education.” This is part six of my annual review of the year in ed-tech. I do so in Seymour’s memory.

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Technology Education Microsoft Industry 85

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

A former special education teacher who grew up in Oregon, Grant rarely considers a problem without mentioning how it affects students. By the time she formally started, in July 2020, the coronavirus pandemic had upended public education. Related: Should rich families be able to fundraise a better public school education for their kids?

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Elementary Report Policies System 106

Hack Education

DECEMBER 13, 2016

” With all the charges of fraud and deceptive marketing levied against post-secondary institutions this year – from the University of Northern New Jersey too ITT, from Trump University to DevSchool – we might ask if, indeed, this is the way it works. So I thought maybe this is the way it works.” Or it was.).

Technology 40

Technology Education Secondary Pearson 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

For the past ten years, I have written a lengthy year-end series, documenting some of the dominant narratives and trends in education technology. Oh yes, I’m sure you can come up with some rousing successes and some triumphant moments that made you thrilled about the 2010s and that give you hope for “the future of education.”

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145