Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

districts, schools, teachers and students; literacy-related frameworks and academic standards; the competitive product landscape; target user and buyer personas (such as curriculum director or librarian); and pain points for school administrators, teachers and students. We covered topics such as number of U.S.

Company 137

Company EdTech How To Meeting 137

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

MasteryConnect aims to help teachers plan lessons and track how students perform against academic standards. MasteryConnect was one of hundreds of edtech companies that capitalized on investors’ enthusiasm and optimism for the industry in recent years. K-12 edtech companies, with $741 million coming in 2015 alone. (

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 115

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2017

According to her, the education industry looks at “reading and writing as two separate kinds of tools.” Each lesson, Murphy shares, will “break down academic standards around literacy into discrete subskills.” (For “People often joke about being bad at math, but they often do that with writing as well,” observes Murphy.

Instructional Materials 240

Instructional Materials Academic Standards Company Industry 240

Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

From this perspective, the strategic use of professional development can be seen as equivalent to the specialized training that workers receive in other industries. In contrast, the American education system, despite efforts to centralize elements like academic standards, remains enormously fragmented.

Policies 120

Policies Trends Common Core Training 120

EdNews Daily

AUGUST 27, 2019

Then a re-write of academic standards that had to be mapped to teaching and learning, constantly in revision. True personalization is being done in nearly every other industry, but not here, not at scale. At the micro level, schools and districts themselves are starting to feel the burn from a lack of systemic innovation.

Industry 100

Industry Survey System Academic Standards 100

eSpark

JANUARY 5, 2016

have expressed frustration with No Child Left Behind, an educational policy that has been derided by educators as placing too much emphasis on standardized testing and failing to address racial and socioeconomic achievement gaps. ESSA encourages districts to bring edtech into the classroom. For over ten years, districts across the U.S.

Policies 40

Policies Blended Learning Education EdTech 40

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). EdReports has become a real big deal in K-12 publishing,” he said, referring to the nonprofit that reviews textbooks for alignment to academic standards.

Industry 124

Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 124