Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday.

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Company Dropout Advocacy Facebook 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2024

He recalls finding (and paying a considerable amount for) an outside company that could convert his transcripts into something more comparable to the U.S. When he tried to enroll, he found that colleges had no idea how to handle his international transcripts and credentials. education system.

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Doug Levin

MAY 18, 2015

Of course, issues of privacy and security are related, but not the same. Instead, advocates have focused almost exclusively on the practices of companies serving education. While that’s part of the solution, it is in no way sufficient to addressing the privacy and security concerns being raised by parents and in the media.

Internet Safety 295

Internet Safety Student Data Privacy Policies Company 295

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

For school counselors, what’s key is that school counselors have the ability to look at the demographics of a school, to look at where students are going in terms of course placement. In my classroom, we talk of course about Augusta Ada Byron Lovelace, who was the world’s first programmer. So that’s really important.

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STEM Company Industry System 339

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

Buoyed by examples of new and significant commitments to OER by companies large and small, governments of all levels, and schools, it is easy to see that the future of instructional materials over the next decade will look very different than it has over the last decade.

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OER Instructional Materials Advocacy Meeting 170

The Hechinger Report

JULY 28, 2023

At other times, as in Wiese’s case, people have no choice but go through time-consuming and often expensive courses before discovering whether they can work in their chosen field. Such advocacy has bipartisan support. That means some people are inadvertently steered toward training programs that, for them, are dead ends.

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Advocacy Training Policies Study 98

Edsurge

APRIL 6, 2022

He also continues to work part-time at a logistics company. “I Instead, the New Orleans resident was excited to start a job in the human resources department of a Fortune 500 energy company. Alan is now a high school junior taking some college-level courses, including in UX Design. I love it so far!” Dino reports.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

They give companies another reason to stop relying principally on academic degrees when hiring, since candidates who are Black are less likely than white candidates to have one , according to the U.S. Caitlin Storhaug, director of global recruiting communications, McKinsey & Company. Steve Yadzinski, Jobs for the Future.

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Company Assessment Report Gamification 144

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

What were two things that excited you about working with the company? My advocacy for second language and culture learning is reflected in my personal life. Another part of 51Talk I enjoy is the depth and knowledge of their training courses for their instructors. You recently joined 51Talk as an online English teacher.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020. Stride Inc.,

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 124

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

. — A Yale-educated evolutionary biologist and a member of the faculty at Catholic, liberal arts-focused Sacred Heart University, Geffrey Stopper also oversees one of its newest courses: Advanced Craft Beverage Brewing. This story also appeared in The Washington Post. We don’t want to lose the richness of the liberal arts.

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Kaplan Training Report Survey 124

techlearning

OCTOBER 4, 2018

and New York, NY) — The Education Technology Industry Network ( ETIN ) of the Software Information Industry Association ( SIIA ), the largest non-profit software industry policy and advocacy association, announced today a partnership with StartEd Inc., to New York, and hosts more than 200 regional and national ed tech companies.

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Industry Technology Advocacy Software 41

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 24, 2018

Now, close to 20 students from the local school district have meaningful, inclusive, paid employment assembling and packing materials for a variety of companies. The Statistics Of course, not everyone has the resources to find places for their kids to work, or to buy a warehouse to create a program. Building Self-Advocacy.

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Outcomes Advocacy Course Data 167

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2022

Two other Vemo clients — Messiah University and Colorado Mountain College — also reported that the company has shut down, though the company doesn’t appear to have made a formal announcement. The company provided ISAs to help people move into higher-paying cities where they could earn more.

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Company Report Survey Industry 71

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

“One of the great paradigm shifts that has occurred with colleges that are really making headway is they no longer consider the students to be broken who come to them,” said Sugar, who was a co-founder of the advocacy group Complete College America.

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Advocacy Policies Training Accessibility 94

MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

Disability Community and Culture at MIND Companies report that 4-7% of their employees have disclosed a disability. Instead, try doing the learning and asking for feedback, creating systems where disabled employees are compensated for advocacy work outside of their job description, and creating proactive accessibility plans.

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Education Advocacy Accessibility Policies 52

Dangerously Irrelevant

AUGUST 4, 2015

And of course those teachers that 1) hardly do anything, 2) join those damned unions, and 3) have huge salaries and summers off. And of course we’ll cut science classes. Plus we need hundreds of millions of dollars to give to companies so that they can create a dozen or so jobs. We can do better! But let’s don’t stop there!

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Advocacy Policies STEM Outcomes 100

Shake Up Learning

APRIL 12, 2022

All images and information are being tracked by big data companies. Will your child appreciate your advocacy when they are overcoming handicaps, obstacles, or just throwing a fit and you hit their face with a slice of cheese? There are fake accounts of course, but there are plenty of grown men following underage girls and commenting.

Digital Citizenship 100

Digital Citizenship Social Media Advocacy Data 100

Edsurge

APRIL 25, 2017

Companies like LegalZoom and Rocket Lawyer, which have created a do-it-yourself model for legal services, and others like Ravel and ROSS that improve lawyers’ research and productivity, have changed the profession and business models. What’s so punishing is that the good days are over.

Competency Based Learning 108

Competency Based Learning Advocacy Online Learning Training 108

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

I believe these partnerships will be increasingly important as OER tries to cross the chasm from being an interesting experiment by early adopters (the 6-ish% adoption we see today in the courses where adoptable OER exist) to something used campus-wide and integrated deeply into the fabric of institutions.

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OER Advocacy Resources Accessibility 119

The Cornerstone for Teachers

JANUARY 18, 2023

They were curious if framing employees’ work by their results (instead of “you have to be at your desk from X to Y”) would improve both company outcomes and employees’ experiences. Founding CultureRx , home of the Results-Only Work Environment, Thompson and Ressler have helped other companies shift to this sort of a model.

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Classroom Company Course Outcomes 52

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Effective Advocacy. They understood the outsized influence that billion dollar behemoths like Microsoft would continue to have, and knew that the only way the open source model could “win” would be if proprietary software companies adopted it. These are huge companies that compete directly with each other in many ways.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

And I was describing to them that, “We got here with a long-term commitment to stay on a course of — really, if you want to call it, progressive education, but trying to really stay focused on trying to educate kids for lifelong learning, not just simply to build a transcript to take some test and to be able to walk across a stage.”

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Dropout Company Twitter Maker Movement 267

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In late October, education policy and advocacy group iNACOL opened its annual conference with a bang. Of course iNACOL—ahem, the Aurora Institute—isn’t the first education organization to undergo a major rebrand in the past few years. You need a concerted campaign over at least the course of a year. ScriptED begat Code Nation.

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Education Advocacy Conference Laptops 82

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 6, 2019

Attending trade shows seems like an absolute must for educational publishers; the cost, personnel, and logistics can be obstacles for even the larger companies. First, since no company can attend every event, staff should meet to discuss event strategy every year ahead of trade show season. But going shouldn’t be booth or bust, though.

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Company Industry Meeting Advocacy 53

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Remind is a good example of this because professors can easily and privately share with a whole class, or groups within a class, relevant course materials. These mobile messages keep students connected to course material and let students know we care about them, but the system is still too one-size-fits-all.

Mobility 93

Mobility OER Technology BYOD 93

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 27, 2016

A number of top executives, a bipartisan assortment of governors, and multiple advocacy groups have issued an open letter to Congress calling on the government to devote $250 million to computer coding education for students, along with professional development in that subject for teachers.

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Advocacy Industry Company Facebook 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Pam: But his kids… he teaches an environmental course. Dr. Moran has appeared on the cover of Education Week’s Digital Directions magazine as a “National Mover and Shaker” for her advocacy of a curricular digital integration model, which will be featured in an upcoming profile by Edutopia. Student Bee Keepers.

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Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 190

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

SHOW LINK BIO: Angela Maiers has been creating and leading change in education and enterprise for 31 years, teaching every level of school from grade school to graduate school and consulting with companies around the world. As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount.

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Classroom Advocacy Learning Conference 36

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2016

We offer our colleagues at peer institutions and edtech companies nine considerations for cultivating innovation on campus and beyond. The DIG team identified and prioritized additional needs and quickly added members with expertise in user experience design, behavioral science, data science, software development and innovation advocacy.

Advocacy 60

Advocacy Software MOOC Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The number of institutions that have adopted this approach “is still a small group,” said Maria Flynn, president and CEO of the advocacy group Jobs for the Future, or JFF, which has announced a $5 million competition to develop more rapid-reskilling programs that reduce training time by at least 50 percent for well-paid occupations.

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Training Industry Report Company 135

Edsurge

DECEMBER 9, 2020

Such claims have caught the attention of consumer-protection advocacy groups like the Student Borrower Protection Center, which has found marketing language that it contends is deceptive and predatory. Because income changes over the course of a career, it is difficult to make precise forecasts of one’s monthly payments under an ISA.

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Comparison Study Data Advocacy 213

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Both the wider internet and the narrower education space are filled with companies and organizations that provide value-added services around openly licensed software and content. These contingent faculty likely teach four or five courses a term – or teach a different class at three different institutions each semester.

OER 60

OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

Edsurge

DECEMBER 20, 2018

After a career working at tech-centric companies including Google and Quora in product roles, Liu Huang joined CZI in 2017 to oversee the product development, notably the Summit Learning platform. CZI aims to be a different type of philanthropy looking to integrate grantmaking, advocacy and technology to serve others.

Education 113

Education Khan Academy Facebook Advocacy 113

EdTechTeam

APRIL 9, 2019

EdTechTeam was recognized for the company’s achievements in helping schools implement and increase meaningful adoption of the Google Cloud ecosystem. “Our team is so excited about this award. .

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Google Education Advocacy Chromebook 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

What they lack is college-educated relatives, counselors, role models or mentors to make sure they take the courses and meet the deadlines they need to, or who encourage them to think about their further educations. Siembra, a for-profit company that’s paid by participating school districts and colleges, has only early results to share.

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Report Company Study Advocacy 83

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

It was the final day of first-year orientation at Grinnell College, with classes scheduled to start the next morning, and these new students were still finding their way around the campus, meeting neighbors in the dorms and waiting to hear whether they got into the courses they wanted. If you leave them to opt out, many of them will.”.

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