Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

In today’s workforce, one employee backed up by teams of experts providing training, tools, just-in-time access to materials and data can perform work that once required dozens of line workers. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

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Policies Trends Common Core Training 116

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2018

Earlier this month in New York City, the AT&T Aspire Accelerator, AT&T’s program that finds, develops, and invests in promising edtech companies from around the world, hosted an afternoon of mock board meetings with its 2018 cohort. The same principle applies to edtech companies. Companies all want more eyeballs and users.

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EdTech Company Outcomes Academic Standards 87

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 15, 2018

Startups and established tech companies are providing a crash course in entrepreneurship, sending engineers and designers into public schools to mentor students. Working in the gig economy as a contractor with a ride-share company precludes the kinds of deep relationships that lead to professional advancement.

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Company Academic Standards Report Secondary 105

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Kids are helped along by access to take-home devices and individualized learning plans that allow them to progress through class material at their own speed. In the early years of Lindsay’s experiment, few students had internet access at home. “I Today, students are even able to access assignments on their mobile devices.

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Online Learning How To Competency Based Learning Learning 131

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2017

And career preparation here isn’t just a buzzword but more like a guiding principle: When the end-of-day bell sounds, some children transition from students to employees of the district, and earn $10 an hour for working on a variety of projects for local technology companies. Photo: Wayne D’Orio for The Hechinger Report.

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STEM Report Robotics Company 100

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

Standards Several – Vendors produce tools that correspond with the Competencies and Academic Standards Exchange (CASE) , specifications that define how systems exchange and manage information about learning standards and/or competencies in a digitally-referenceable way (goodbye PDFs!). Do vendors use CASE?

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Department of Education spearheaded the #GoOpen movement, a collection of efforts to spur educators, publishers and technologists to make OER more available and easily accessible. Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more.

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OER Resources Common Core Education 60

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

To watch the live show at 4:00 pm US-EDT, or to access the recordings afterward, please go to [link] (or [link] ). As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. She was responsible for the Office of Educational Research and Improvement in the U.S.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. But in recent years, we've seen a spike in the number of smaller, tightly focused, niche edtech product companies.

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EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

eSchool News

JUNE 9, 2016

It has helped millions of students worldwide to improve their reading and writing skills, master increasingly rigorous academic standards, and prepare for high-stakes assessments. “We Smarty Ants is not the only Achieve3000 solution currently implemented at Virginia Beach.

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Blended Learning Secondary Differentiated Instruction Academic Standards 0

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 23, 2018

Alana Wolf at her summer internship at a theater company in Pittsfield, Massachusetts. Most require that the students meet minimum academic standards and earn a predetermined number of credits. That’s gotten harder during an ongoing enrollment slide now entering its seventh year; there were nearly 2.9

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Policies Report Academic Standards Meeting 79

Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2018

Kaplan University had been owned by Graham Holdings Company, which used to own the Washington Post until it sold it to Jeff Bezos. What's different because of our relationship with Purdue is that we now have access to real thought leaders in some of the disciplines that we're very excited to be able to participate in.

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Kaplan Course Examples Outcomes 102

TeachThought - Learn better.

MAY 1, 2015

Even in today’s age of standardized testing and emphasis on academic standards, perhaps even because of this recent emphasis, educators are increasingly aware of the need to nurture students’ complete development. Throughout the day, students should be in the company of caring and supportive adults who are positive role models.

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Academic Standards Meeting Company Classroom 40

TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 20, 2015

As most educators know, the Common Core is a set of high-quality academic standards in mathematics and English language arts/literacy. Simply put, the standards outline what a student should know and be able to do at the end of each grade to be prepared for success in school, college, career and life.

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Common Core Academic Standards Resources Accessibility 40

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

Additionally, his free financial literacy course aligns with Jump$tart Coalition Standards for K-12 Personal Finance Education, National Curriculum Standards for Social Studies, and State Academic Standards. This course is aligned with the Jump$start Coalition for Personal Financial Literacy National Standards.

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Course Comparison Academic Standards Social Media 269

MindShift

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Research has shown that a majority of the educators who teach English-language learners (ELLs) are creating their own instructional materials — often with little oversight — that don’t necessarily match the student’s grade level or the rigor required by state academic standards.

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Instructional Materials Survey Dropout Common Core 28

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

The San Francisco-based company is best known for its rostering technology that provisions user accounts for software, and a single sign-on service that makes it easy for students and teachers to log into and use tools purchased by district officials. To access the app, students simply navigate to the class’s Clever page.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 121

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2018

Throughout the speeches, presentations and product showcases, company employees and Apple touted how their tools can offer “creative” learning experiences that no others can do. Apple CEO Tim Cook It was hardly Apple’s first day at school; the company’s education efforts trace back four decades. This is something only Apple can do.”

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iPad Chromebook Education Company 138

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. Some employees hoped the company could turn around and stayed on without pay. “We have adopted the standards while 21 states have standards based on the framework. Fundraisers Sidelined There was just one problem—the company needed more money.

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Education Company Chegg Pearson 80

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). On the agenda were one-on-one interviews with company CEOs and panel discussions on opportunities and challenges in different markets. Viva Amtrak!

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Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 121

EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

This caveat is meaningless to most commercial interests like companies that take advertising for something like soft drinks but will be very important in the education field for learning resources. Anonymized means targeters do not see names but can message/advertise to specific groups of users based on educational interests or needs.

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Personalized Learning Learning System Mobility 100

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Combined, Faria and Rubicon will serve over 10,000 schools in 130 countries with curriculum support for over 600 academic standards. The resources in the Professional Learning Center can be accessed at any time on any device and feature a mass-enrollment option for easy implementation for principals and teachers.

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 46

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2017

The increased interest in work-based learning opportunities comes at a time when companies nationwide are calling for more skilled workers, and not just for jobs that require a college degree. During the program, students have access to internships and work experience. Anna White works on a project at Creative MicroSystems.

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Classroom Report Academic Standards Company 88

Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2019

I’m a believer in the merits of technology and have written about how technology can be used to broaden access to knowledge , connect people and even improve empathy. But 2018 marked an inflection point for education technology that most investors and developers did not see coming. Our schools are inextricably linked to our democracy.

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Comparison Academic Standards Technology Social Media 125

Hack Education

MAY 4, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “George Mason’s President Says Some Donor Agreements Fell ‘Short’ of Academic Standards.” “ Are Edtech Companies Doing Enough to Protect Student Privacy? Digital training company QuizRR has raised $1.3 ” asks Inside Higher Ed.

MOOC 42

MOOC Education Robotics Company 42