Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

When researchers at my company, Lexplore, compared the fall 2019 and spring 2021 assessment results of more than 57,000 Swedish students in grades 2 to 6, they found that students in 2021 were, on average, 10 percentile points, or seven to eight months, behind the 2019 students in reading ability.

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eSchool News

MARCH 23, 2023

MONTREAL – Paper , the leading Educational Support System (ESS), today announced that it has acquired Readlee, an innovative learning tool that uses artificial intelligence (AI) and speech recognition technology to help students improve their reading skills.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Founded in 2011, the New York-based company has built a hugely popular training platform that has helped millions of students learn to code over the last decade. But the New York-based company had already served 45 million students in more than 190 countries before the pandemic hit. “We A sample project in Codecademy.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 12, 2024

Endless Network , a global organization dedicated to promoting equity and accessibility, invests strategically in companies worldwide to address challenges such as limited access to quality education. It focuses on delivering quality teaching and learning through technology without the internet.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 16, 2023

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift At a training session this summer, Pitts, a teacher at Oakdale Elementary in Sandy, Utah, learned why: The program works best when teachers supervise kids rather than sending them off to do exercises on their own. Educators, who are rarely trained on the software, often leave products unopened or unused.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2019

For Devlin Daley’s next act, he’s employed a strategy that worked for his previous education business: visit college campuses to see what technologies made students’ and instructors’ lives harder. He left in 2013, a couple years before the company went public.) I reflected on the issues I heard while with Instructure,” Daley said. “I

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Edsurge

MAY 20, 2019

At a time of major change at educational software and assessments provider Renaissance Learning executives decided to add one more item to their to-do list. The company had bought the myON digital reading platform that March to beef up their company’s literacy offerings. Two years later, the company raised $5.3

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The exercise is part of a new program that encourages learning middle school math through real world problem-solving, now in use in 190 school districts across 36 states. NEW YORK — I strap on a virtual reality headset. A screen appears and dramatic music pounds into my ears.

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EdNews Daily

JUNE 3, 2017

These companies are hiring now. Assessing for National Board is a great professional development opportunity, and an invaluable part of the National Board Certification process. National Board assessors consistently report that the assessment process is a great professional development experience. Summer is here. School is out.

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Edsurge

JULY 28, 2021

billion—which is a good moment to reflect on how mobile learning has entered classrooms and how the company has expanded from just an app. From the forms the company filed with the SEC last month, we learned the company conducted a study to evaluate Duolingo’s effectiveness versus traditional university language courses.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? Over the past seven years, we’ve continually developed and tweaked a seminar-style onboarding course to help all new employees, regardless of their background, catch up to speed on key issues in education and technology.

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My Island View

MAY 2, 2023

My path to discovering the power of technology for mind mapping and empowering young writers. My 34-year experience as a middle school/high school English teacher took me from a period in education with little or no technology through to a period of Labs to laptops. Students were assessed in both English and Social Studies.

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edWeb.net

MAY 12, 2023

The science of gamification and automation and how it is being used to improve the mastery of science concepts and content was the focus of the edLeader Panel, “ Supporting High-Quality Science Instruction and Assessment Through Gamification and Automation. Penda Learning is where science and technology converge in the classroom.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2020

The latest results from the National Assessment of Educational Progress found that scores for eight-grade students on civics, history and geography exams all dipped from 2014 to 2018. Of course, like every other subject, the true test and value of civics and history extends far beyond academics and assessments. An Untimely Disruption.

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Edsurge

JUNE 28, 2019

This morning, the San Francisco-based company announced a series of “sweeping changes” that includes a new name—Altitude Learning—and new leadership. Co-founders Max Ventilla and Mediratta, who had served respectively as CEO and chief and technology officer, are stepping back from their day-to-day roles but will be on the company’s board.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 30, 2019

Not everything she found was useful or reliable, as is the case for most web searches, so she took time to vet each exercise. Now, Rouse no longer needs to search for exercises outside of work. “It At that time, the company only offered math materials for grades three to six. Now, Tailor-ED covers K-8 math.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 11, 2019

The company, which has offices in Paris and San Francisco, has raised $7 million to date. Like many other education entrepreneurs with technology backgrounds, the co-founders of Lalilo say they were surprised at the gap between the teaching tools currently available in classrooms, and the technology they knew was available.

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techlearning

SEPTEMBER 25, 2018

PORTLAND, Oregon – (September 21, 2018) Learning.com, a leader in providing digital literacy solutions for grades K-8, announced today that it joined the Google for Education Technology Partner Program.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Yet some of the voice recognition systems today were neither designed nor trained to pick up different dialects, and that can be a problem when they are used to assess oral fluency, says Patricia Scanlon. “I Some offered multiple-choice questions, for instance, that simply asked kids to pick the correct pronunciation—hardly a useful exercise.

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techlearning

AUGUST 20, 2018

“Pivot Interactives is a versatile supplemental tool that can be used for a variety of learning opportunities, including pre- and post-lab exercises, lab skills assessment, flipped learning, and many more,” said John Wheeler, CEO of Vernier Software & Technology. For more information, visit www.vernier.com. # # #.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

As the chief technology officer and assistant dean of the Stanford Graduate School of Education, Paul Kim spends more time than most pondering how artificial intelligence (AI) can impact education. It’s something many other education companies using AI can’t deliver either. I think AI will augment what educators do.”

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Edsurge

AUGUST 6, 2020

In a recent study conducted by McKinsey & Company, statistical models based on academic studies estimated the potential influence of school closures on learning. Additionally, institutions must adjust their previous approaches toward the assessment of learning outcomes to meet the realities of today’s environment.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 25, 2020

Computer Fundamentals: Students learn to harness technology as a tool to create, problem-solve and collaborate with others. Using Learning.com during remote learning has made a huge impact on my teaching,” said Elizabeth Fecher, Technology Teacher at Mt. Keyboarding: Teach students foundational keyboarding skills. Airy School.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 21, 2018

This is a game-changing law that will impact companies in the U.S. Like the GDPR, the CCPA does not specifically focus on education technology. The law will apply to any company doing business in the Golden State, even if physically located elsewhere. and globally, and moves the U.S. So what does the law do?

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Evelyn Learning

JUNE 8, 2023

When a new idea or technology becomes available and shows promising usage, powerful governments run to grasp the technology and take advantage of being early adopters. The more resources and technological advancement a country has, the more influential and rich it becomes. And why not? World economics works that way.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 17, 2017

Russel is a mid-level executive with an international beer company. Michele is a COO of a mid-sized family company and earns an excellent salary. A simple way to assess if your job is liking you is how much the extreme downside stacks up against the unlimited upside.

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Edsurge

JUNE 16, 2020

To date, these requirements have been more of a compliance exercise than practical guides to good investments. The initiative requires schools to measure whether students and teachers are utilizing the technology at the intended amount and if the outcomes match expectations. But that’s likely to change when budgets get tight.

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Fractus Learning

APRIL 9, 2021

Lesson material consists of short videos, text, and practice exercises, or challenges. Student engagement in answering questions or testing their knowledge with challenges helps teachers assess the student’s student progress. Technology today allows teachers to create educational videos using their mobile phones or video cameras.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2017

At the apex of this emerging tech is a new field of sensory technology known as emotive computing. Robots may actually be more useful than humans in this role, as they are not clouded by emotion, instead using intelligent technology to detect hidden responses. So how could this new field of technology find its way into the classroom?

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2024

Seeking to educate the whole person—mind, body, and spirit—and prepare PK-5 students for the world beyond the classroom, HNCS’s team sought to enhance science instruction by integrating a comprehensive STREAM (Science, Technology, Religion, Engineering, Art, Math) curriculum. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros.

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Edsurge

MAY 11, 2020

It gives you the opportunity to review all the clothing, furniture, appliances and various knick-knacks that you have accumulated over the years and assess their worth. This exercise feels especially important during a moment when we all face such uncertainty.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2019

School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

The future of education is changing, and global workforce demands will be influenced by the need for knowledge around and skills in fast-growing technologies such as AI. With AI, we have just begun to see the possibilities this technology can provide for education. This begs the question: What’s next for education?

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

For Kiddom, the deal marks a big step in its effort to create a one-stop shop for all of the instructional tools used in K-12 classrooms and “help bridge the gap that currently exists between curriculum, instruction, assessment and intervention,” says its chief academic officer Abbas Manjee. Founded in 2013, the company has raised $21.5

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

As technology continues to advance, the integration of AI in education promises to optimize educational outcomes, promote inclusivity, and prepare students for the evolving demands of the digital age. These technologies bring subjects to life, making abstract concepts more tangible and promoting deeper understanding.

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2019

So the CEO of the Boston-based company sat in on classrooms in over 12 schools. Scaling an education technology company has been an ongoing lesson for Arbaji. Origins in Jordan Arbaji’s decision to start an education company is rooted in how education shaped his own life. The company had raised $3 million in seed funding.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 21, 2018

Seven of the 134 companies in this batch provide education services—which is a similar percentage from the last cohort. In this latest cohort of edtech companies, only one is aimed at being used in classrooms. The husband-and-wife duo behind the company, Aparna and Deepak Ramanathan, come from different backgrounds. “A

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