Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But when funding dries up and profits remain elusive, companies have to make tough cuts. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. He adds: “As a venture-funded company, there’s been a decision to get to profitability in the next nine to 12 months.”

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114

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. To date AT&T has made 27 investments.

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EdTech Company Outcomes Academic Standards 83

Doug Levin

JULY 7, 2016

One of the great promises of the increased adoption and use of technology in public education is the availability of new tools to collect and analyze data about how best to meet the individual needs of students, support educators, and allocate scarce resources. There simply is no room for instructional black boxes in public education.

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Instructional Materials Education Academic Standards Software 150

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

One could also look at the thousands of edtech companies and education nonprofits that have sprung up in the last few decades as suppliers of goods and services designed to help teachers perform their work more effectively. Goals can vary dramatically from state to state, district to district and even school to school.

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Policies Trends Common Core Training 110

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. 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 107

Edsurge

JANUARY 22, 2018

In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

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EdTech Academic Standards Social Media Technology 153

Marketplace K-12

MAY 18, 2016

Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 The company offered a competitive price comparable to what Measurement, Inc. Then, the company was unable to produce enough paper copies quickly enough to meet the state’s demands.

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Pearson Common Core Assessment Academic Standards 75

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 25, 2016

McGraw-Hill Education’s recent selection of Knovation’s curated open education content is a signal that publishers and ed-tech providers are jockeying to find ways to take advantage of open education resources. ” The appeal of Knovation’s work, she said, is in the vetting and tagging that have gone into the open resources.

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OER Education Company Academic Standards 40

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 5, 2019

While virtual resources abound, the systems are not coordinated enough to fully address teachers’ curriculum-design needs and to support them as they help students build a coherent body of knowledge. But, it’s all over the place,” he laments, “with the various textbooks, standards, digital search engines, and vendors.”.

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OER Analysis Data Academic Standards 53

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2017

“Transforming misery into agency” is among the visionary goals that co-founder Wisdom Amouzou has for The HadaNõu Collective , which currently operates centers in public high schools that “map authentic experiences to academic standards.” The nonprofit is based in Miami, Fla.,

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Education Social Media Groups Company 124

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

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

edWeb.net

MARCH 26, 2021

The pandemic made it apparent how important it is for everyone to utilize the supported digital resources.”. She is a contributor to state and local academic standards and teaching exemplars that help create high learning expectations and opportunities for all students. Approach to PD.

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Professional Learning Academic Standards Outcomes Secondary 59

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MAY 27, 2020

Then again, this is a time of great opportunity to revise, rethink, and reconsider the best uses of available resources, both locally and globally. As Assistant Secretary, she led the federal effort to promote the creation of voluntary state and national academic standards. In the U.S., Department of Education.

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Policies Academic Standards Company Assessment 36

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

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. They may not have the resources or parental support needed to stay after school. by Mike Anderson.

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Academic Standards Meeting Company Classroom 40

The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 28, 2023

Founded in 2008, it's a trusted resource for 15 years. 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. Before we dive in, let's talk about EVERFI.

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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. Those statistics recently prompted the U.S.

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Instructional Materials Survey Dropout Common Core 28

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Parents that do know better often don’t want to deal with the hassle of months or years of court battles, or may not have the time or resources to do so. Banks works in a resource lab for special education students who are mainstreamed in general education classes; they come to see her for one period each day.

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Education Strategy Report Training 111

Edsurge

JUNE 24, 2019

And with one click, teachers can also conveniently make those resources available to students. With the Clever Library, the company aims to give teachers more agency in finding and trying new products. In early 2016, it launched Co-Pilot to give schools free 30-day trials of edtech software built by other companies.

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EdTech Libraries Software Company 119

EdNews Daily

APRIL 1, 2019

Imagine that as a school you can no longer send or post messages that recommend an eTextbook, or piece of courseware unless you had “verifiable consent” from that minor child for every single system, App, resource in the course. Non-Profits Cannot Be Excluded.

Personalized Learning 100

Personalized Learning Learning System Mobility 100

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 117

Edsurge

OCTOBER 17, 2016

MORE SEL RESOURCES FROM KIDDOM. Webinars to learn more about using Kiddom A guide to standards-based grading to make grades meaningful Content integrations for teachers to save time Infographic illustrating how Kiddom inspires Personalized Learning Socio-emotional learning infographic.

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Resources How To Academic Standards Personalized Learning 60

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

EdTech 52

EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Analysis 52

Edsurge

JULY 16, 2018

To infuse both real-world scenarios and academic standards into the new exams, as well as topics like leadership that college admissions reps would care about. Such approaches take training, resources and time, in addition to buy-in from districts, states and educators. Their goal? where it’s unusually popular. “In

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Assessment STEM Academic Standards Course 78

eSpark

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

In the interest of helping other companies and school districts enable extraordinary teaching and learning at scale, we’ve highlighted the three main findings—and some solutions—that have come from these conversations: 1. Teachers need help planning lessons that meaningfully contextualize academic standards.

EdTech 40

EdTech Academic Standards Chromebook Analysis 40

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 45

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2016

State funding is gone and no longer supports the web resource for teachers to locate high-quality online lessons. That has been the value of the clearinghouse, he said; not only pointing teachers and others toward online lessons to fit state academic standards, but providing an Ohio-specific seal of approval. “We

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Advocacy Academic Standards Company Resources 40