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

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 Meeting Advocacy 170

MIND Research Institute

JULY 20, 2023

We see this language baked into our education systems and materials with terms like “differently abled,” “impaired,” “deficit,” and “low functioning.” Disability Community and Culture at MIND Companies report that 4-7% of their employees have disclosed a disability. For example, “I agree with what Erin said. Own the labor.

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Education Advocacy Accessibility Policies 52

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. Examples of what that might look like already exist at some campuses.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 13, 2019

Structured literacy instruction consists of the following components: Phonology (the sound system of language). Orthography (the writing system of language). Self Advocacy and Resources for Students. For example, as previously mentioned, many students with dyslexia tend to read less because it’s so hard for them.

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Advocacy STEM Resources System 130

The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 5, 2019

Urkund: Today’s Sponsor Urkund is great as a plagiarism prevention tool and connects with most common Learning Management Systems like Google Classroom, Moodle, and Canvas or as a stand-alone web tool or by email. The Urkund system is highly accurate, cost-effective , and even better, doesn’t sell licenses to students or others.

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How To Twitter Moodle Elementary 239

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 30, 2018

We have to engage in a movement,” Susan Patrick, CEO of the nonprofit advocacy group known as iNACOL (International Association for K-12 Online Learning), told the cheering crowd of 3,000 true believers. For example, why are the new ways of learning better? No more simply “sitting on your butt in class,” as one educator put it.

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Advocacy Learning Conference Common Core 92

Edsurge

JUNE 13, 2017

What rights do parents, students and teachers have in an educational system increasingly awash in data and technology? In an interview with EdSurge, ACLU’s Advocacy and Policy Counsel, Chad A. The degree of privacy a student gets should not be dependent on that student’s socioeconomic status.

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Social Media Student Data Privacy Data Facebook 127

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

Gale discovered she would have to move two HVAC systems, which could cost $12,000 apiece. Gale’s own example of Form Energy coming to town speaks directly to this crisis: Good jobs are arriving in the region, and yet there still aren’t enough child care spots for the families who need them. The timeline for renovation grew longer.

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Policies Industry Accessibility Advocacy 156

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 129

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

Secondly, four examples of virtual reality programming in the classroom. One of the things that we really spend a lot of time doing is trying to help people “unlearn” some of what I think that we built into the system over time that people just came to accept. 4 Virtual Reality Examples in Virginia. Example #2: VR and Beowulf.

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Education Examples Maker Movement Company 250

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.

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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.

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Mobility OER Technology BYOD 92

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 101

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 29, 2018

Learn how students are teaching each other drone piloting and other examples from Albemarle County, Virginia with Superintendent Pam Moran. 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.

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Elementary Assessment Company Maker Movement 190

edWeb.net

DECEMBER 2, 2019

Telecom companies often forget about rural areas because they don’t have high population density. For example, community members may use school computers to fill out necessary online paperwork with assistance from school staff or help local civic organizations set up alumni databases and communications networks.

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Broadband Accessibility Advocacy Elementary 54

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

A report published Thursday by the Student Borrower Protection Center , a nonprofit advocacy group focused on student debt, attempts to quantify the scope of this problem. Researchers projected estimates for the system based on the percentage of students affected in Compton, Lake Tahoe and Peralta Community College Districts.

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Dropout Policies Data Report 107

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 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 88

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. For example, she had trouble finding the area of a triangle and other math involving shapes. It’s a long road of recovery.”

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Study Data Report Advocacy 138

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

And while core course content is often housed on the district’s internal learning management system (LMS), the extracurricular content—advanced placement (AP), English for Speakers of Other Languages (ESOL), honors, homeschool, and blended learning content—must also be factored into the equation.

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LMS Blended Learning Advocacy Company 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.

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Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

However, Bitcoin is not synonymous with blockchain, nor is it even necessarily the best example or tool for every blockchain application. In fact, there is tremendous innovation in the blockchain field right now, with numerous entrepreneurs and technologists piloting enhancements to the Bitcoin blockchain.

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Education Industry Sony Policies 281

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

“It’s essentially a vestige of colonialism,” said Roberto Jiménez Rivera, a rare example of a native Puerto Rican from modest means who went to college on the mainland, where he now is an assistant director of admissions at Tufts University. An estimated $132 million of repairs are needed system-wide. How is it going to be accessible?

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Dropout Report Accessibility Study 111

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. For example, in early 2008, LPS noticed that students were falling behind in math. Photo: Al Seib/Los Angeles Times via Getty Images.

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Technology Blended Learning iPad Advocacy 40

Philly Teacher

JANUARY 5, 2016

It’s similar to how many company retain their top talent: Know their strengths, give them opportunities to shine, celebrate successes, offer opportunities for collaborating and learning with peers, provide top notch, just-in-time training, and compensate them adequately for the work they do.

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Edcamps Education Policies Advocacy 40

Iterating Toward Openness

OCTOBER 30, 2017

Examples of Value-Added Services in the Context of Open. 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. It’s easy to get caught up in a means-ends confusion when it comes to OER.

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OER LMS Learning Moodle 60

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. Our equity policy requires it,” said Dr. Van Heukelum.

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Advocacy Education Learning Digital Divide 102

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Savvas is proud to call out Johnston County Public Schools as an outstanding example of K-12 success using enVision — a true “K-12 Hero” using its innovative education technology. For example, in one activity, she supercharges a regular lesson by having students record explanations of what they’ve learned on their iPads.

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Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 132

RafranzDavis.com

JULY 10, 2016

It would be years before I found “my voice” again in my teaching and advocacy. We love our controlled systems a little too much and love to cry foul when there is pushback. Time and again, with every tech company that I encounter, the feedback is real. You’re killing me smalls.

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Training Advocacy System Robotics 40

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

She was the 2013 recipient of the National Coalition for Technology in Education & Training, NCTET Community Builder Award for exemplary service supporting policies and practices designed to facilitate effective technology integration into teaching and learning across the nation’s education system. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.

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E-rate EdTech Broadband Libraries 42

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The education system has begun to think of itself as a pipeline, from pre-K through to the workforce. That experience indicates why leaders of education technology companies and investment firms are starting to see opportunity in expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life. Currently, the U.S.

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Education EdTech Company Industry 153

Iterating Toward Openness

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

For example, in 2015 I wrote that “My ultimate goal is this: I want to (1) radically improve the quality of education as judged by learners, and (2) radically improve access to education. The question we must each ask ourselves is – what is the real goal of our OER advocacy?

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Accessibility OER Pearson MOOC 62

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

The United States is facing a dramatic shortfall of skilled workers , and the economic-modeling company Emsi says a huge wave of retirements will hit blue-collar industries particularly hard in the next few years. The problem threatens not just colleges and local economies, but the national economy as well. Tiger Woods couldn’t teach golf.

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Industry Report Training Advocacy 59

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.”.

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Learning Report System Case 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.

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Company Report Study Advocacy 31

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 4:00 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

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MOOC EdTech OER Data 60