The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

It may be not full of earthly riches, but definitely full of meaning and full of legacy. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. We’re not just teachers. We teach people how to live lives. We unleash human potential.

How To 239

How To Twitter Moodle Elementary 239

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. In its March announcement, the Department of Education declared that ISAs are by definition private education loans.

Company 72

Company Report Survey Industry 72

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. Run with it.

Classroom 52

Classroom Company Course Outcomes 52

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

Industry 99

Industry Report Company Training 99

Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

In late October, education policy and advocacy group iNACOL opened its annual conference with a bang. That was definitely not cheap,” says Lenz, adding that the cost of a revamp for a small to midsize organization would almost never run into seven figures. The company has since been acquired and the domain is no longer active.

Education 82

Education Advocacy Conference Laptops 82

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. From our interviews, students definitely conceptualize this as a type of debt or loan. Is it a loan? Something else?

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Comparison Study Advocacy Data 213

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 112

Education Khan Academy Facebook Advocacy 112

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2018

The new federal education law, the Every Student Succeeds Act , or ESSA, also provides increased access to funding for physical education by including the subject in its definition of a “well-rounded education.”. “At At least we’re at the table now,” said Carly Wright, advocacy director for SHAPE. “It

Exercises 105

Exercises Elementary Report Study 105

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? ” Nothing remotely like that has ever been included in my definition of open.

Accessibility 62

Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

It may be not full of earthly riches, but definitely full of meaning and full of legacy. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. We’re not just teachers. We teach people how to live lives. We unleash human potential. Biography as Submitted.

Twitter 91

Twitter Flipped Classroom Elementary Advocacy 91

MindShift

JANUARY 30, 2019

It’s that fewer than one in five 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.

Industry 28

Industry Advocacy Company Training 28

RafranzDavis.com

JULY 10, 2016

It would be years before I found “my voice” again in my teaching and advocacy. Time and again, with every tech company that I encounter, the feedback is real. But…are we really expected to say that this definition defines all work created in this way now…because there is a book?

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Training System Robotics 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2019

Even with that, financial documents show, the company has yet to turn a profit , thanks to the high cost of recruiting new students. The National Association of Graduate-Professional Students and other advocacy groups are lobbying Congress to mandate training for graduate mentors and advisors. Thomas University Provost Jeremy Moreland.

Report 105

Report Survey Study Strategy 105

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. Related: New data show some colleges are definitively unaffordable for many.

Dropout 111

Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

Edsurge

JANUARY 11, 2021

A new survey on corporate skills training forecasts that a lot more companies will try doing it using virtual reality environments in the next two years. and definitely increases costs for districts.” And educators want to know what actually worked in remote instruction. All in this Edtech Reports Recap. And potentially teachers, too.

Survey 149

Survey EdTech Tools Training 149

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

“Back in the early 2000s, I used to tell people we were stuck in the early ’60s, and I’m not sure how much more we’ve progressed,” said Ali O’Neill, who runs a construction company near Portland, Oregon, with her husband. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We We are still really struggling with the retention numbers.”.

Training 112

Training Groups Industry Advocacy 112

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Known as online program managers, these companies have been hired largely to connect universities with customers who want graduate degrees. Though the faculty teach the courses and the universities control admission standards and confer the graduates’ degrees, much of the work of building and managing the courses is done by the companies.

Company 58

Company Education Industry Course 58

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2023

The amount of care available has diminished,” said Nina Perez, early childhood national campaign director at MomsRising, an advocacy group focused on issues relating to moms, women and families. “If They are the lowest paid teachers, and provide one-on-one around the clock supervision and care, which is definitely needed,” Jordan said.

Advocacy 115

Advocacy Report Trends Industry 115

Iterating Toward Openness

APRIL 25, 2019

To offset all this double counting, there is the separate issue of the many “whole course” OER that OTL refuses to index because they don’t meet the OTL’s definition of “textbook.” Developers who are known to be doing this work on their own, with no financial contribution happening from any company” represented only 8.2%

OER 73

OER Course Company Smartphone 73

The Hechinger Report

MAY 12, 2021

It definitely made for a pretty horrible year and a half,” Smith said about the impact of a policy he called “both stupid and shortsighted.” And a coalition of advocacy groups in New York is pushing for legislation there like California’s. He’s already toying with a name: Free the Grades. “I I feel like I won, but then there are 6.6

Policies 117

Policies Advocacy Course Report 117

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2017

He’s put $100 million of his own money into his company Kernel (which I guess means we’re supposed to believe it’s a real, viable thing) with the promise of developing computer chip implants that will bolster human intelligence. ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope.

Technology 67

Technology Education Facebook Company 67

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2020

During a pandemic, when there’s no uniform way of counting attendance, Hedy Chang, director of the advocacy group Attendance Works, has seen districts rethinking some of these rules, with their ability to do so varying on state flexibility.

Policies 142

Policies Schoology Elementary Report 142

edWeb.net

AUGUST 6, 2020

Those things are intentional and are things we can definitely correct within the system.”. At the heart of anti-racist early childhood education, she emphasized, is institutional critique combined with advocacy and transformation. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by Kaplan Early Learning Company. WATCH THE EDWEBINAR RECORDING.

Kaplan 98

Kaplan Education Policies System 98

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY ADVANCEALL ( benchmarkeducation.com ) Benchmark Education Company (BEC) released Advance ALL, a new series motivating students to read with literary and informational reading text sets. The course takes students up to four hours and can be completed over several weeks.

Blackboard 50

Blackboard Epson Pearson STEM 50

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

BRUNSWICK, Maine — As the silkscreen printing company where she’d worked for five years became more and more short-staffed, Vanessa Moody found herself putting in 60 hours a week, starting at 6 a.m. Vanessa Moody worked at a silkscreen printing company until she was turned down for a raise after routinely putting in 60 hours a week.

Training 139

Training Company Industry Report 139

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

I’ve definitely heard from at least 10 parents who are like, ‘I don’t know what’s going on,’ ” O’Connor said. “ ‘Is this good for my child?’ ”. There’s tremendous hype swirling around personalized learning, with money pouring in from foundations and education technology companies eager to capitalize on the trend.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Learning Elementary Common Core 40

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

White students could lose four to eight months of learning by June 2021, and students of color could lose six to 12 months, according to a McKinsey & Company report published in December. Patrick Miller is the superintendent of Greene County Schools, a district in North Carolina that he describes as “poor and rural by every definition.”

Laptops 128

Laptops System Policies Meeting 128

MindShift

DECEMBER 11, 2019

” Mayen is now focused on bringing Salaam to a larger audience by releasing an enhanced version on Facebook Instant Games, through the company he created, Junub Games. Olebe says so-called “social impact games” like Salaam are a category that has the potential to push the industry to expand its definition of success.

Video 66

Video Facebook Industry Advocacy 66

Hack Education

JUNE 9, 2017

“Personalized learning,” according to some definitions, is driven by students’ own interests and inquiry rather than by the demands or standards imposed by the instructor, the school, the state. ” Or it dates to the Gates Foundation’s funding grants and political advocacy in the early 2000s. ”).

Personalized Learning 83

Personalized Learning Learning Course Handbook 83

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Rather than taking the seller’s word for it, such important consumer information should go through external audits like the ones required of publicly traded companies, said Michael Horn, senior partner of the education consulting firm Entangled Solutions and co-author of the soon-to-be-published book, “Choosing College.”.

Data 81

Data Policies Report Study 81

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Whatever the Justice Department decides to do, disability advocates are prepared to pursue the GNETS case as a class action lawsuit if necessary, said Alison Barkoff, advocacy director at the Center for Public Representation , a public-interest disability law firm. Leslie Lipson, counsel to the Georgia Advocacy Office.

Education 80

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 80

Hack Education

OCTOBER 7, 2016

It’s always fascinating to look at ed-tech companies’ job postings – this one is from Khan Academy. The new company will be called Touch Press (which was the name of another company that StoryToys acquired last year). ” Definitely no one I trust more on this topic, no siree.

Education 63

Education MOOC Report Khan Academy 63

Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Securities and Exchange Commission for allegedly sharing five school districts’ private information with an advisory company while it was negotiating for the districts’ contracts.” For-profit higher ed company Education Management Corp says it will close 22 out of 26 of its Brown Mackie College locations.

Education 49

Education Coursera Microsoft Company 49

The Hechinger Report

MAY 29, 2020

The expanded safety net, though, doesn’t apply to workers at private companies with 500 or more employees. Katherine Gallagher Robbins, child care and early education director at the Center for Law and Social Policy, an advocacy group for low-income families. I was definitely scared: Will they hire me back?

Industry 140

Industry Policies Advocacy Report 140

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said. I definitely want to be out of here in four years,” Soberano said. “If Many states have resorted to enforcement actions, lawsuits and new laws to crack down on for-profit colleges and universities and loan-servicing companies they say cheat or mislead students.

Education 98

Education Policies Course System 98

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 28, 2018

“ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Via The Outline : “The rise and fall of the company behind ’ Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games.” The learn-to-code company has raised $6.9 .” Labor and Management. This Week in Betteridge’s Law of Headlines.

Education 55

Education MOOC Chegg Robotics 55