Edsurge

MAY 30, 2017

Stories pointing to secretive consumer tracking policies and privacy violations from companies like Facebook and Google have stirred further outcries, and education companies are not immune to criticisms either. That’s a far cry from the research published from companies, says Martin. You need to call them what they are.

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Company Data EdTech Policies 92

eSchool News

MAY 9, 2023

Learning technology company HMH announced that it has completed its acquisition of assets from research and educational services organization NWEA. HMH is a portfolio company of Veritas Capital (“Veritas”), a leading investor at the intersection of technology and government. Goldman Sachs & Co.

Company 62

Company Assessment Advocacy Outcomes 62

Edsurge

JANUARY 28, 2020

More than 40 colleges have said they do not use facial recognition technology on campus and stated they have no plans to do so, according to a new “ scorecard ” published Tuesday by an advocacy campaign titled Ban Facial Recognition on Campus. We have no current plans to use facial recognition technology in the future,” Samson said.

Groups 83

Groups Advocacy Company Mobility 83

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2020

As the years pass, the gap between Jennifer’s and Maria’s access to technology widens: Jennifer has everything she needs at her fingertips, while Maria does not. But it’s not just Maria who is falling behind due to her lack of access to educational technology and resources. I think we all know the answer.

System 147

System EdTech Digital Divide Education 147

Edsurge

JULY 26, 2022

Among the signatories were large companies that included Athletes Unlimited, Care.com, Patagonia and Synchrony. That has led the company to expand its child care benefits. Business leader associations and advocacy groups are also pushing for child care solutions. At Synchrony, 60 percent of our workforce are women.

Policies 189

Policies Company Survey Industry 189

Edsurge

MAY 21, 2020

Nine lawsuits filed in March, April and May against major textbook companies and retailers take aim at their bulk deals with colleges to offer online course materials, sometimes referred to as “inclusive access” programs. And in February, nonprofit advocacy organization U.S. In my mind it makes the opt-out option illusory.”

Accessibility 173

Accessibility Pearson Advocacy Course 173

Edsurge

AUGUST 9, 2022

Bringing together more than 100 organizations across the fields of disability advocacy, special education, civil rights and K-12 nonprofits, the Educating All Learners Alliance (EALA) is one such network formed to ensure equity and support for students with disabilities and learning differences across education environments. percent to 22.5

UDL 167

UDL EdTech Student Engagement Advocacy 167

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. About Honeywell Honeywell ( www.honeywell.com ) delivers industry-specific solutions that include aerospace products and services; control technologies for buildings and industry; and performance materials globally. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

Industry 104

Industry Education Trends Advocacy 104

Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

We are often reluctant to label anything facilitated through technology as a failure. Technology has become so pervasive in our lives that we have grown reticent to question its value when its use may not support evidence-based practices. Technology should support rather than replace human interactions. We need to make a change.

EdTech 299

EdTech Dropout Advocacy Outcomes 299

Edsurge

JULY 2, 2019

Sarraf hopes the robot and her company of the same name can reach homes and families, just as they have reached the wallets of two angel investors who have injected $4.2 The company did not disclose their names. The robot is not yet available; when it is, the company says it will retail for $299. Courtesy of Roybi the company.

Robotics 130

Robotics Company Education Data 130

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

The technology company has developed a robust, clinician-designed online therapy platform for their own network of teletherapy providers, and made a version of it available to schools during the pandemic. “The Special education caseloads in schools have continued to rise, increasing backlogs, and driving clinician burnout.

Advocacy 99

Advocacy Assessment Company Accessibility 99

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.

Industry 41

Industry Technology Advocacy Software 41

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pandemic closures provided some students with a chance to notice how stressed they are at school, says Jayne Demsky, founder of School Avoidance Alliance, an advocacy group that provides professional training to schools. But a more common approach has been to ink contracts with telehealth companies.

Advocacy 191

Advocacy Training Groups Company 191

Doug Levin

MAY 18, 2015

Advocates would have us believe that school districts are incapable of making responsible decisions about technology-related privacy and security issues affecting students. Instead, advocates have focused almost exclusively on the practices of companies serving education. “ Information security “).

Internet Safety 295

Internet Safety Student Data Privacy Policies Company 295

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

In terms of young women, school counselors and really all educators can help young women and really all of our students learn more about computer science and technology by thinking about how it intersects with every area of interest. Especially using technology, how could you address that problem?’. So that’s really important.

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STEM Company Industry System 337

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.

Company 40

Company Dropout Advocacy Facebook 40

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

In addition, partner with the education technology provider in developing a plan that will meet your district’s curriculum and strategic goals. As a district, understand what your success criteria is before engaging with edtech companies. Don’t be distracted by features when deciding between various providers.

EdTech 148

EdTech Resources Advocacy Data 148

Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2014, as funding and enthusiasm for education technology was booming, I had been trying to string together a few “yeses” from foundations for the nonprofit venture fund I was launching, Camelback Ventures. That economic opportunities matter. And that black lives matter, too. A coffee meeting led to information about a funding opportunity.

Advocacy 167

Advocacy Company Policies System 167

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. Degree programs to be offered include accounting, business administration, education, human resource management, health services administration and technology project management.

Advocacy 100

Advocacy Groups Report Data 100

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

Jivani had jump started a career in self-care advocacy. Facebook and The International Society for Technology in Education, or ISTE, organized the event as part of their work with DigCitCommit, a campaign to promote digital citizenship. The company has also enlisted artificial intelligence to track hate speech on the platform.

Digital Citizenship 141

Digital Citizenship Facebook Social Media Edmodo 141

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 57

EdTech Advocacy Education Company 57

Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. Researchers also reached out to the companies to clarify confusing policies and for additional information, she added.

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Report Video Schoology Microsoft 164

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Several times a week, Ericka Santiago-Diaz can be found driving around her low-income, underserved school community in New Jersey’s Asbury Park with bags of school supplies, replacement technology, food and donated clothing in the back seat to deliver to students. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

Technology 127

Technology Broadband Meeting Advocacy 127

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2017

Many professors are still skeptical about utilizing smart phones in the classroom, but I believe we could get more professors on-board if entrepreneurs better understood the challenges and resistance faculty face to use mobile technologies. But companies might not be attuned enough to how the user experience shifts from one device to another.

Mobility 89

Mobility OER Technology BYOD 89

eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2018

As the technology director for the West Rusk County (TX) Consolidated Independent School District, I have been a staunch proponent of using technology to support student safety. Another way schools can get in front of the issue is by using monitoring software to keep an eye on what students are doing while on the school network.

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Software Digital Citizenship Advocacy Social Media 109

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

In April 2018, privacy advocacy groups filed a complaint stating that YouTube had been illegally collecting personal data about minors who use its service without their parents’ consent, and used that information for advertising purposes. But privacy advocates are not sure whether such technology is accurate or reliable. That was a $5.7

Google 79

Google Company Advocacy Data 79

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.

Company 144

Company Assessment Report Gamification 144

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

But even in presentations about the latest advising technologies, a through-line for the event was how to frame student success initiatives beyond surface-level enrollment and retention metrics. Closing the Gaps So what do improved student success initiatives look like? Some kids come to school to eat,” Goldrick-Rab said. “So

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Strategy Policies Advocacy Conference 110

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. She wondered whether it made sense to enroll at the technology powerhouse of a university. I love it so far!” Dino reports.

Training 156

Training Study Advocacy Company 156

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Country Music’s Biggest Night: STEAM Takes the Spotlight Virtual Field Trip shows students in grades 6-12 how science, technology, engineering, arts, and math (STEAM) drive innovation in Country Music. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

Industry 95

Industry Advocacy Education EdTech 95

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

The report released by GoGuardian , an education technology company supporting thousands of K-12 schools and over eight million students through powerful tools and research, captures field research from the GoGuardian Research and Insights team, with insights from more than 450 students, teachers, administrators and policy leaders across the U.S.

Student Engagement 94

Student Engagement Advocacy Outcomes Report 94

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.

OER 170

OER Instructional Materials Advocacy Meeting 170

Edsurge

JULY 10, 2018

Your success as a company depends every bit as much on growing your customer base as it does on attracting the right talent to engage those customers. There’s a general assumption that all companies have two separate audiences—namely, the customers and the potential hires—and that their branding should cater to each group distinctly.

EdTech 99

EdTech Company Advocacy Industry 99

eSchool News

AUGUST 16, 2023

School and district leaders will be actively seeking innovative approaches, leveraging data, and collaborating with advocacy organizations and policymakers to bring about meaningful changes in how we educate English Language Learners. They need to learn what types of questions to ask and to see how mathematics can be useful.

Robotics 98

Robotics Industry Elementary Training 98

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Public Interest Research Group , a nonprofit advocacy organization that takes a skeptical view of publishers’ efforts to automatically bill students for pre-packaged commercial course materials. Yet representatives of Cengage, McGraw-Hill and Pearson each told EdSurge that their companies do not set quotas for their inclusive access programs.

Pearson 146

Pearson Accessibility Course Report 146

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 7, 2016

The move adds about 50 percent more members to that division, the Education Technology Industry Network. SES providers ranging from large, publicly held companies to small “mom-and-pops” needed to adjust, and many of the smaller ones went out of business. Terms of the agreement were not released. and GSV Advisors, she said.

Industry 40

Industry Technology Education Software 40

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 15, 2017

He also serves as a Technology Teacher Leader at Middlesettlements and was recently recognized as Technology Teacher of the year along with Innovative Teacher of the Year by his district. Loud’s passions are technology integration in the elementary grades, along with teacher motivation. Transcribed by Kymberli Mulford.

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Twitter Company Elementary Advocacy 259