techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

Irvine, Lake Elsinore, and Santa Clara, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Centennial , CO (July 03, 2018) Illuminate Education , the company transforming K-12 instruction through education intelligence solutions, has merged with IO Education, SchoolCity, Alpine Achievement, and Key Data Systems (KDS). million students in 43 states.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

Mark Edwards—the 2013 national superintendent of the year who taught thousands of educators how technology can play a pivotal role in improving academic results—will join Discovery Education in August, the company announced today. based company. Edwards, who has been superintendent of the Mooresville, N.C., What was your role? .

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2016

The practice of funding public schools and assessing student engagement based on a student’s physical attendance is rooted in this definition and has only reinforced what is an outmoded idea. Today, I lead a company that creates online models for teaching and learning, yet my mission is much the same as it was when I was in the classroom.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. “In After an initial assessment, he determined that early reading instruction was one of the school’s glaring weaknesses. “We

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 27, 2016

Canvas , whiteboards and a company called Blackboard. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. hulking gathering of higher-ed technology staff, faculty and companies. Switches, routers, panels and projectors. Cornhole, crane games, magic shows and light-up swords. Solution: offer happier prompts?).

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

The home of Southwire, a large company producing electrical cabling and wire, Carrolton started a program called 12 for Life designed to boost the high school graduation rate. A federal evaluation found no effects of 12 for Life on students’ grade-point averages, the number of suspensions or the number of school dropouts.).

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

More broadly, nearly 73 percent in the Fall 2021 American College Health Association National College Health Assessment survey reported moderate or serious psychological distress. The school also hired two intake and triage coordinators who screen students to assess what help they need.

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MindShift

JUNE 18, 2020

South Fort Myers High School follows a dropout prevention program called BARR, which stands for Building Assets, Reducing Risks. Use online systems to assess, remediate and individualize learning. But then over a few hours you can actually form, in some ways, a more granular view than you would in a traditional assessment.”

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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. “It’s not something we’re going to make up in a summer or in a year. It’s a long road of recovery.” Whitney Oakley, Guilford County Schools.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing. How a College Dropout Plans to Replace the SAT and ACT.” Really looking forward to this new testing company though! ” LOL, they do?!

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GoConqr

OCTOBER 5, 2015

Dropout rates increase, test and project scores dip, and – worst of all – learning becomes synonymous with boredom. Many educators would strongly disagree with such an assessment. For example, according to the business intelligence company DOMO, each minute there are an average of: 571 new websites created. 277,000 tweets.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 24, 2019

Keith Perrigan, Bristol school superintendent since 2017, said he gets emails from companies pitching their social-emotional curricula almost every day. Keith Perrigan, Bristol superintendent, said that the school district is inundated by education companies selling social-emotional learning strategies. He knows enough to be cautious.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” Via CNBC : “ Google , Apple and 13 other companies that no longer require employees to have a college degree.” despite having Arizona ’s third-highest dropout rate.”

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The company promised to revolutionize how students were taught, except without teachers. The company measured its success based on a curriculum created directly from the test; as it turns out, the company profited off the students' lesson progression.

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MindShift

JULY 9, 2018

The repercussions of not learning to read are magnified for poor children: Research shows that low-income children who cannot read at grade level by third grade are six times more likely to become high school dropouts. The program is research-based, said Lynette Guastaferro, chief executive officer of ERM’s parent company, Teaching Matters.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 12, 2017

No doubt, Udacity, Coursera, and edX have been moving away from “free” and “open” online education for a while now , charging fees for courses and certificates and acting much more like online program management companies – third party vendors for Internet-based courses and degree programs.

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IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Taking action is a matter of leadership and culture : Leadership because analytics triggered actions need to be fully supported by the leadership team of your institution, school, company, etc. If you want to follow a more formal approach towards analytics implementation, there are a number of learning analytics readiness assessment tools.

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Testing, Testing… Via Inside Higher Ed : “Large-Scale Assessment Without Standardized Tests.” Meanwhile on Campus… Via ProPublica : “‘Alternative’ Education: Using Charter Schools to Hide Dropouts and Game the System.” ” “Have We Lost Sight of the Promise of Public Schools ?

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Schools are supposed to revise the IEP document annually in partnership with the student’s parents and conduct a barrage of assessments to reevaluate the child’s disability classification every three years. Michael’s IEP allowed him to work in small groups, have extended time on assessments and use a computer for written assignments.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 14, 2020

To do this, researchers are turning to a relatively new genetic approach called the polygenic score, which assesses a person’s likelihood for a specific future based on a combination of genetic variables. It’s a research technique that some scientists are using to assess obesity or cancer risk, for instance.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 29, 2022

She pointed to racial disparities in mental health care and said that because not all insurance companies cover mental health care in the same way they do physical health care, people may have to pay out of pocket for treatment. (The Lumina Foundation is among the numerous funders of The Hechinger Report.).

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2017

Bits of student performance data are only just starting to trickle out of the pilot schools, so it’s too early to assess most of them quantitatively. Summit partnered with Stanford’s Center for Assessment, Learning, and Equity to develop the rubric for evaluating the cognitive skills in each grade.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

LAS VEGAS — Last year, before Anthony Boccia joined the teaching staff at Valley High School, his students spent hours in a windowless room in the company of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Photo: Sarah Gonser. Photo: Sarah Gonser. It’s basically a warm body in the room, just to make sure students are supervised.”.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Only a quarter of recent grads in another survey, by the educational publishing and technology company Cengage, said that, if they could do it again, they’d take the same educational path. If you’re a law school, you’re likely not going to lie to your accrediting agency. But that’s changing.”

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It Classrooms were off a hallway with locked doors at both ends.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

take (the National Assessment for Educational Progress, commonly called the Nation’s Report Card), about a third of fourth graders and a quarter of eighth graders on the mainland were considered “proficient” in 2022. Academic outcomes in Puerto Rico are poor and have been on a steady decline since Hurricane Maria.

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