Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. What better place to reveal the results of a national survey about trends in IT than at Educause? STATE OF THE IT DEPT.:

Pearson 60

Pearson Blackboard Survey Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

He laments that his tenure in Chicago will be remembered for this more than for creating community schools, increasing access to Advanced Placement classes in high schools, and raising the high school graduation rate by 12 percentage points. He recounts a trip to Carrolton, Georgia, a poor, predominantly white community west of Atlanta.

Dropout 67

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 67

Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

It has shaped the administrative imaginary – and that in turn has shaped how schools have built capacity (or much more likely outsourced capacity ) and defined capacity altogether – notably in response to what’s been consistently framed as the challenge of access and the necessity of choice.

MOOC 55

MOOC Coursera Education Broadband 55

The Hechinger Report

MAY 26, 2020

Will a backdrop of economic ruin prompt higher education to listen to feedback on how to become more accountable, flexible and accessible? She’s in good company within her age group: a stunning 65 percent of people aged 18 to 24 have changed their education plans amid the coronavirus, according to a recent Strada Education Network survey.

Education 109

Education Policies System Survey 109

Hack Education

APRIL 6, 2018

Via Education Week : “ FCC Chair Moves to Block E-Rate Funds for Companies Deemed ‘Security Risk’ ” (State and Local) Education Politics. ” Via The New York Times , a profile on the Indiana charter chain Excel Schools : “A Chance for Dropouts, Young and Old, to Go Back to School.”

Education 45

Education MOOC E-rate Facebook 45

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

’” Via Education Week : “ FCC Seeks Comment on Access to WiFi for Schools and Libraries.” Meanwhile, the state has given initial approval for ECOT to become a “dropout school.” Via the Future of Privacy Forum : “ Law Enforcement Access to Student Records : What Is the Law?”

Education 47

Education Company Data Report 47

Hack Education

JULY 20, 2018

“The FCC Is Threatening to Gut a Program That Provides Internet Access to Minorities,” Pacific Standard reports. ” At least the e-cigarette company (which targets teens) offers a social-emotional learning curriculum, right? I mean, clearly the company has a strong grasp on the politics of information.

Education 46

Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 6, 2017

Via the AP: “A new federal lawsuit by Pennsylvania ’s attorney general says the nation’s largest student loan company engaged in abusive practices that have cost borrowers billions of dollars.” ” The largest student loan company is Navient. She’s an investor in a company that targets that group.)

Education 49

Education Robotics Company MOOC 49

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. “ Is higher ed creating the next dropout factories? ” $100,000. .” ” $100,000.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The company promised to revolutionize how students were taught, except without teachers. The company measured its success based on a curriculum created directly from the test; as it turns out, the company profited off the students' lesson progression.

EdTech 218

EdTech Learning Blended Learning Dropout 218

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. ” The company has raised $16.5 He places former Yale president Richard Levin. But only if you let it.

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

There are similar trends at work in the United States, the Economic Policy Institute reports — including for young college graduates, whose inflation-adjusted earnings are lower than they were in the late 1990s. companies, at just under 15 percent, according to the Center for American Progress. Women fare only slightly better at U.S.

Outcomes 40

Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

It’s a trend that experts say is likely to diminish people’s quality of life and the country’s economic competitiveness. Myriad focus groups and public opinion surveys point to other reasons for the dramatic downward trend. Tennessee is not the only place experiencing this trend. College skepticism , by the numbers.

Education 143

Education Survey Report Trends 143

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 3, 2019

Department of Education published its annual look at student loan default rates last week, singling out 15 higher education institutions for rates so high that they are at risk of losing their access to federal student aid. That could spell trouble for the embattled company, which has already shuttered at least seven schools since last year.

Report 53

Report Accessibility Data Trends 53

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

The change is part of a nationwide pilot program Walsh joined this year, one that could indicate just how deeply and how quickly the personalized-learning trend will penetrate the average classroom. Basecamp schools then receive mentoring from and troubleshooting by Summit staff, as well as PLP access throughout the academic year.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

The median wealth of black families “is on a path to hit zero by 2053,” if current trends hold. Indeed, being a black college dropout negatively affects earnings by at least $10 per hour, according to research by the Economic Policy Institute. Students walk on the campus of historical Morehouse College in Atlanta Ga. percent).”

Dropout 83

Dropout STEM Analysis Company 83

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

After 20 years as a house cleaner, she’d gotten better work as a packaging operator at local manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies, but kept losing jobs because she had trouble filling out the required forms. She’d tried once to enroll at Raritan but gave up after she couldn’t figure out the application. So the school used $1.6

Software 92

Software Report Trends Adobe 92

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 3, 2017

Whatever the cause, those critics say, the trend is further widening the racial and socioeconomic divide among different types of universities and colleges, shifting money away from those whose students generally need the most support in favor of the ones whose students generally need the least. It’s perverse,” said Carnevale.

Policies 73

Policies Dropout Analysis Trends 73

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

billion, is bucking a national trend — most other states are continuing to reduce, not increase, their higher education budgets. The goal, writes historian John Aubrey Douglass, was “broad access combined with the development of high quality, mission differentiated, and affordable higher education institutions.”.

Education 96

Education Policies Course System 96

The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2018

The case is among a slew of enforcement actions, lawsuits and legislative proposals through which states are cracking down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students. Related: Once-high-flying private, for-profit universities seek turnaround strategies. “We

Company 67

Company Industry Advocacy Report 67