eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

Unfortunately, our education system often struggles to provide adequate support for these students if they don’t know English. The good news is, we are seeing more clean energy companies investing in education to help provide resources and training to make this a priority.

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Robotics Industry Elementary Training 98

eSchool News

MARCH 16, 2022

Launched in 2019 and established as an independent nonprofit association in 2021, SELPA aims to advance high-quality SEL implementation by bringing together SEL providers for networking, shared learning, collective promotion, and advocacy. I’m proud to serve for a second term on the board of directors for this passionate group of providers.”.

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Advocacy Education Assessment Strategy 56

Doug Levin

FEBRUARY 21, 2016

K-12 education system by open educational resources (OER) since 2009, although my first exposure to the ideas and leaders of the movement stretch back to the launch of the MIT OpenCourseWare initiative. I’ve been engaged in thinking deeply about the promise and opportunity afforded the U.S. Even within the U.S.

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OER Instructional Materials Advocacy Meeting 170

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

The organization behind the event was Achieving the Dream, a nonprofit that has provided grant support to colleges working to implement student success technologies like degree planning systems, early-alerts and predictive analytics. At the conference, the organization stressed another strategic focus: equity.

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Strategy Policies Advocacy Conference 106

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? based nonprofit, states have passed approximately 110 laws since 2013 concerning student data privacy. In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A.

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Social Media Student Data Privacy Facebook Data 115

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. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. At Stride Inc., Stride Inc.,

E-rate 120

E-rate Pearson Company Report 120

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The project, designed by Tom Sugar, vice president for partnerships at EAB, the education consulting firm that will support colleges in the Moon Shot effort, is an effort to address systemic pitfalls in higher education and eliminate equity gaps in access and completion. We’re trying to do something at a scale that’s unprecedented.

Advocacy 90

Advocacy Policies Training Accessibility 90

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

million students from fall 2019 to fall of 2021, according to state data leaving campuses worried about their future and potential students with fewer of the opportunities offered by higher education. Eloy Ortiz Oakley, chancellor, California Community Colleges.

Dropout 99

Dropout Policies Data Report 99

EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Additionally, the structured literacy approach is systematic, with a logical order to the skills and concepts being taught (usually progressing from the simplest to the most complex), cumulative, new learning builds on students’ prior knowledge, and diagnostic, instruction is informed by student data. Self Advocacy and Resources for Students.

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Advocacy STEM Resources System 130

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

SXSW EDU Launch Competition Judge Tony will try his best Judy Judy impersonation, as he joins Bridge Burns (University Innovation Alliance), Vince Chan (Creta Ventures) and Jonathan Rochelle (Google) to dispense advice and feedback for eight companies pitching their wares. Join us for a slice of the action! Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m.

Social Media 103

Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 103

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 19, 2021

In a survey conducted by Quest Research and the Kaplan test-prep company, they were four times more likely to say they’d hire an English major with a credential in cybersecurity than an English major without one. “We Americans appear to like the idea of embedding career and technical education into academic degree programs.

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Kaplan Training Report Survey 123

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year.

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Study Data Report Elementary 136

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

More than 40 percent of children in West Virginia under age 6 who need child care can’t access it, she explains, pointing to data from Child Care Aware and TEAM for West Virginia Children. Gale discovered she would have to move two HVAC systems, which could cost $12,000 apiece. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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Policies Industry Accessibility Advocacy 143

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

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.

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Education Khan Academy Facebook Advocacy 107

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 27, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five of adults in the entire surrounding Humphreys County have at least an associate degree, according to census data analyzed by the nonprofit advocacy organization Complete Tennessee. With worker shortages hitting industries nationwide, their companies — and many states’ economies — depend on it. “No

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Industry Report Company Training 94

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 5, 2022

Federal and state data on teacher departures lag by a year or more, meaning we won’t have a conclusive picture of the pandemic’s impact on teacher diversity for years to come. Yet early data suggests that the pandemic is aggravating the leaky bucket problem. As the school year continued, the situation grew increasingly tense.

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Report Meeting Groups Data 142

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Sometimes I’ll walk in, and I discover a teacher that I wasn’t even aware of in the system — because we’ve got, you know, over 1200 teachers in Albemarle. And they’re putting arduino-powered probes in there so that they can really monitor some things that would be data inputs that they’re going to take a look at.

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Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 188

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 23, 2019

The nonprofit launched in 2012, and when it explored school connectivity data the following year, it found that just 30 percent of school districts had sufficient bandwidth to support digital learning, or 100 kbps per student. EducationSuperHighway’s advocacy supported the district’s efforts perfectly. It was a well-timed initiative.

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E-rate Digital Divide Classroom Laptops 47

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2019

Institutions have access to more student data than ever before—but it's hard to really grasp what that means, since many of the digital tools that colleges use are from third parties or companies that keep their algorithms private. So you decided you would start looking into some of the data that the system had collected on you?

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Data Learning Advocacy System 143

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2018

were underfunded by $580 billion in federal dollars alone — money that was specifically targeted to support 30 million of our most vulnerable students,” says a new report published by the education advocacy nonprofit, the Alliance to Reclaim Our Schools. These systems prohibit states from distributing tax dollars where there is greater need.

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Secondary Report System Advocacy 65

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 2, 2016

Many public school districts don’t have the resources to partner with an education technology company to develop customized digital learning tools for their classrooms. While effective, these methods were unsustainable, because teachers had to do much of the data tracking and analysis manually, according to the paper.

Technology 40

Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

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. The data in the [Linux Foundation’s] Kernel Development report shatter this illusion.

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OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

.” She posits gaming as the new site for “modern learning,” with an emphasis on skills training and data-driven self-improvement. How accurate is her data? (I’d “Why are there 72 slides about gaming, from a company invested in EA, Zynga, Mobcrush, and Magic Leap?” ” he asks.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 29, 2018

Those entrepreneurs have created a platform, and company, called Siembra — a Spanish word for sowing seeds — that reaches out to low-income, first-generation and racial and ethnic minority high school students on their ever-present smartphones, nagging them to stay on track the same way college-educated parents of wealthier kids do.

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Report Company Study Advocacy 80

Philly Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2016

This focus on the “best” teachers also brings the conversation back to over quantifying teaching and does nothing to eliminate the constraints that endless data put on excellent teaching. The Department of Education can set up systems and policies that support these factors, but in the end, this hard work must be done at the local level.

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Edcamps Education Policies Advocacy 40

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

With 90 percent of her North Dakota district leaders graduates of the local school system, Dr. Louters said professional learning for board leaders is vital in helping all understand “implicit bias” and being conscious of its extensive effects on administrative decisions. Data can be your best friend, said Dr. Louters.

Advocacy 104

Advocacy Education Learning Digital Divide 104

The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

Department of Education data analyzed by The Hechinger Report. These and other challenges mean that, at a time when growing proportions of high school students have been successfully encouraged to go on to college, more than one in five full-time freshmen nationwide fail to return for a second year, according to the data.

Dropout 98

Dropout Report Policies Data 98

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Jahliel Thurman (Vice President of Uplift Entertainment) and Shalon Bell (Director of Strategic Alliances at the Atlanta Voice)—will discuss how despite limited monetary capital, these institutions continue to boost students’ potential in graduate education, entrepreneurship and advocacy through human capital. EdSurge 9:30 a.m.

MOOC 60

MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 19, 2019

Toppan, a junior at the high school, was angry that the administration hadn’t sought student input about the change, and worried that a switch to a 1-4 grading system, with a 3 the highest possible grade on some assignments, would hurt her chances of getting into a good college. We’re not ready for this.”. We’re not ready for this.”.

Learning 111

Learning Report System Case Study 111

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

Dr. Abshire pointed out that the challenges for today’s district leaders include protecting students’ data and other information, filtering content, and establishing acceptable use policies for students and teachers. She is a past board member and chair of CoSN and is Vice President of Advocacy and Programs for LACUE.

E-rate 42

E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 42

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Richard Labbe Johnston County Public Schools Nominated by: Savvas Learning Company While recent statistics from NAEP (The Nation’s Report Card) show significant declines in math scores across the country, Johnston County Public Schools in North Carolina has defied that trend.

Education 124

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 124

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Of those who do enroll at universities on the island, fewer than half earn degrees, even after six years , the advocacy group Excelencia in Education reports, compared to more than 58 percent of college students nationwide. An estimated $132 million of repairs are needed system-wide. That is very touching for me,” Morales said.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

MindShift

MARCH 29, 2018

Those entrepreneurs have created a platform, and company, called Siembra — a Spanish word for sowing seeds — that reaches out to low-income, first-generation and racial and ethnic minority high school students on their ever-present smartphones, nagging them to stay on track the same way college-educated parents of wealthier kids do.

Company 31

Company Report Study Advocacy 31

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Ask a publisher why inclusive access is good for students and the list of reasons they will provide sounds like it came straight off a 2013 OER advocacy slide. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy? Open means free plus permissions. (If Others don’t.

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

MindShift

JULY 15, 2021

Last year, researchers at NWEA, an independent nonprofit assessment company, published an analysis of data from the autumn 2020 MAP Growth tests of more than 4 million public school students. So systems are really trying to figure out, ‘How do we do that?’ ”. When given the opportunity, then they will succeed.

Study 42

Study Advocacy Training Groups 42

edWeb.net

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Assuring safe and secure online access for all While schools and districts are working to increase safety and security and have made progress, they don’t have the expertise or resources that the tech companies have. CoSN (the Consortium for School Networking) is the premier professional association for school system technology leaders.

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Digital Citizenship Advocacy Company Assessment 103