Edsurge

MARCH 24, 2019

Governments, educators, advocacy groups and companies large and small need to work better together. This in turn helped the Chilean edtech ecosystem by helping edtech companies scale and subsequently invest in smaller markets. “In For that, the authors commend the work of Project Unicorn. says the report.

Technology 138

Technology EdTech Education Mobility 138

eSchool News

JANUARY 20, 2022

“The combination of tactile exploration and innovative technology is a powerful package that will help transform the way students learn while in school, and I’m energized by the shared vision that its learning system will be used by many more school kids in the near term, in addition to the focus and dedication of the team leading Osmo.

EdTech 58

EdTech Advocacy Education Company 58

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Now he’s training in a fast-track program to become an industrial maintenance technician. Rather than slowing down, he’s speeding up — racing through the 616 hours of study and lab time he needs to get the certification that he hopes will open a new chapter in his life as an industrial maintenance technician.

Training 137

Training Industry Report Company 137

Edsurge

APRIL 8, 2024

Gale discovered she would have to move two HVAC systems, which could cost $12,000 apiece. Child Care Staff Years of low wages and no benefits for child care workers has created a drastic staffing shortage in the industry, one that Gale, too, has felt with her team. But then the permitting and construction process grew complicated.

Policies 139

Policies Industry Accessibility Advocacy 139

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

Between the barbeque and baristas, the dive bars and dueling pianos, thousands of educators, along with entrepreneurs, investors, researchers and policymakers across the education industry, will descend on Austin, Texas, during the first week of March for SXSW EDU. Join us for a slice of the action! Tuesday, March 5, 4 p.m. 3:30 p.m.

Social Media 102

Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 102

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 101

Industry Report Company Training 101

techlearning

AUGUST 29, 2018

Finalists were selected by a panel of educators and K-12 parents who reviewed the submissions that were entered and judged the products and services based on the extent to which they are transforming education through the development or advocacy of edtech.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy EdTech Industry Company 40

Doug Levin

MARCH 10, 2016

I recently availed myself of the chance to join and learn from many of the leading innovators and thinkers in the emerging blockchain industry at the Chamber of Digital Commerce’s DC Blockchain Summit 2016 , which billed itself (accurately, I think) as “a dialogue at the intersection of industry, regulation, and innovation.”

Education 281

Education Industry Sony Policies 281

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. Related: Could the online for-profit college industry be a ‘winner in this crisis’? Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. Nemergut enrolled all three girls. At Stride Inc., Stride Inc.,

E-rate 128

E-rate Pearson Company Report 128

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.

Company 53

Company Industry Meeting Advocacy 53

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.

Kaplan 124

Kaplan Training Report Survey 124

EdTechSandyK

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

Barriers include strong lobby of the textbook industry in Texas. We spend rediculously large sums of money to the same companies every few years for repackaged content. Barriers include the system we are in and the fact that teachers don''t send lobbyists to Austin. We spend roughly 1 billion dollars every ten years.

Advocacy 49

Advocacy Mobility Assessment Social Media 49

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. Arkansas Teachers Get Lessons in Computer Coding.

Advocacy 40

Advocacy Industry Company Facebook 40

Edsurge

MARCH 27, 2023

Soon, employees from one of the world’s most influential companies will arrive to teach these students about computer science: how to program computer games, how to work with data and how to found and run a business. When kids are not proficient in math, they're not going to be connected to STEM in any sort of systemic, long-term way.”

Industry 126

Industry STEM Education Survey 126

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 23, 2018

Let’s face it: A guy who’s doing my job out in industry is probably making twice what I’m making here,” said Bellina, a former oil industry worker now teaching petroleum technology. said Lynn Shaw, an electrical technology professor at Long Beach City College, who is working with the statewide system to strengthen vocational education.

Industry 60

Industry Report Training Advocacy 60

Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The report is always a big deal in technology circles – “a tech industry event in its own right,” as Wired’s Steven Levy put it in 2012 – and many publications and pundits dutifully cover Meeker’s observations, often adding very little analysis of their own. ”) How accurate are her observations?

Trends 56

Trends Coursera Company Personalized Learning 56

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 22, 2018

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. She has a real interest in fashion, would love to be in the fashion industry. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

Education 247

Education Examples Maker Movement Company 247

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.

OER 80

OER Advocacy Software Company 80

Dangerously Irrelevant

JULY 9, 2015

Adding potential insult to injury, the Governor’s first press conference after his school funding veto began with a 5-minute shout-out to the tourism industry and a claim that the school start date ‘compromise’ legislation that was opposed by essentially every school district in Iowa was a ‘win-win.’. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.,

Policies 100

Policies Advocacy Social Media Conference 100

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. Overall, nothing can stop passion and enthusiasm.

Advocacy 102

Advocacy Education Learning Digital Divide 102

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 13, 2019

This is likely to be especially important in light of what is being called the “fourth industrial revolution,” which includes emerging technologies such as artificial intelligence and 5G networks. She is a past board member and chair of CoSN and is Vice President of Advocacy and Programs for LACUE. Cynthia Schultz, Esq.,

E-rate 42

E-rate EdTech Broadband Digital Divide 42

Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Now in its seventh year, the annual gathering brings together thousands of entrepreneurs, educators and industry experts from around the world for four days stacked with panel discussions , workshops , an expo hall , meetups , film screenings —plus plenty of after-hours shindigs. Will VR Really Impact Student Outcomes?

MOOC 60

MOOC EdTech OER Kaplan 60

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.

Education 152

Education EdTech Company Industry 152

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

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Cleveland recognized the need and became a strong advocate for Hazel Health, a telehealth company that provides mental health services to students at no cost to families.  Now in its third year, the DLC and its innovative funding structure has become a model program emulated by other education systems in the nation.

Education 127

Education Advocacy EdTech Elementary 127

MindShift

NOVEMBER 30, 2017

She says it is not unusual for dyslexics to go unrecognized until adolescence and beyond, a systemic shortcoming that effectively abandons struggling young readers during the most critical years of learning. His goal is to work in the film industry. Students at or above proficient reading level. Disagreements Over Reality .

Training 78

Training Report Groups System 78

The Hechinger Report

JULY 13, 2023

Other studies on the effects of minimum wage hikes focus on the retail or restaurant industries, but those sectors have more wiggle room to absorb wage increases than child care providers do, the researchers noted; labor costs account for up to 70 percent of a child-care provider’s business expenses.

Survey 91

Survey Advocacy Data Study 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

A recent New York Times investigation found that many companies receive such precise, extensive data on their users that they—and anyone else they share this information with—could easily identify a single individual and pinpoint their location. If we want to raise the bar, we need to make sure these companies understand,” he says.

Tools 124

Tools Policies Data Android 124

eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Her advocacy resulted in $1.5 She is responsible for establishing the district’s partnership with Hazel Health, a telehealth company that provides mental health services to students at no cost to families. The collections also were lacking in materials that reflected the diversity of the students in the Cedar Rapids Schools.

Edmentum 101

Edmentum Education Libraries Advocacy 101

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

Online higher education may cost more than it could for students and earn less for universities thanks to a little-known $1 billion industry of for-profit middlemen that gets as much as 80% of the proceeds in commissions. But a little-known industry of for-profit middlemen, which is skimming off as much as 80% of the proceeds and has U.S.

Company 60

Company Education Industry Course 60

techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

ASSIST EDUCATION & APEX LEARNING ( assisteducation.com/ ) & ( www.apexlearning.com ) ASSIST Education and Apex Learning enhanced their partnership with the addition of adaptive content and digital tutorials into the ASSIST Integrated Education Management System for K-12 schools.

Tools 59

Tools Robotics Edmentum Software 59

Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

While in Big Soda the main players are Coke and Pepsi, their equivalent in the publishing industry are Pearson and Cengage (which has announced that plans to merge with McGraw-Hill). In the new model, students usually pay a per-course fee that covers digital texts and homework systems.

Pearson 107

Pearson OER Course Accessibility 107

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2023

Over the past few years, the pandemic has illuminated the fragility of the child care industry and the massive challenges parents have finding child care, a reality that has only become worse with major staffing shortages and pandemic-related center closures. Greater federal investment in the nation’s child care system could help, she added.

Advocacy 115

Advocacy Report Trends Industry 115

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

I’m able to put food on the table without any assistance from the welfare system,” said Trejo. Meanwhile, construction was one of just two industries in which the number of women workers increased since February 2020, she said. an advocacy group in Oakland, California. “We Credit: Image provided by Lupe Trejo.

Training 111

Training Groups Industry Advocacy 111

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

Education ranks high among industries where cyber incidents and threats occur frequently. From DDoS attacks to ransomware to malware encounters, school districts are at increased risk for harmful and costly security breaches that wreak havoc on systems and programs across departments. Initiate basic security measures.

Software 77

Software Future Ready Advocacy Data 77

MindShift

DECEMBER 3, 2020

As protests against racial injustice spread to communities large and small in this year, many educators have been pushed to examine how systemic racism harms students. That task may be easier than ever, thanks to six years of advocacy by the We Need Diverse Books campaign.

Classroom 69

Classroom Libraries Groups Industry 69

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

ASSIST has expanded the system with content for every grade level, K-12 through Higher Education. 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. Illuminate 10.0

Epson 53

Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 53