eSchool News

AUGUST 18, 2022

as well as the Federal Reserve’s efforts to tamp down inflation by raising interest rates. ? The reasons behind soaring housing prices —Unlike the housing bubble of 2008, today’s increasing housing prices are driven by a lack of supply. In Module 6, the mini-lesson titled “Where Did All of My Money Go?”

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E-rate eBook Course Trends 86

NeverEndingSearch

MARCH 15, 2020

And here are a couple of curated lists of free books and stories and free video channels. RBDigital , from Recorded Books, offers instant, full-color, interactive digital magazines without any holds, checkout periods or other such limits. Tumblebooks is a collection of animated, talking picture books licensed from book publishers.

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 23, 2018

Ask your guests to take out their library cards and their mobile devices, and help them get started with accounts to any of the following available free-to-the-public gifts: RBDigital , from Recorded Books, offers instant, full-color, interactive digital magazines without any holds, checkout periods or other such limits.

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Libraries lynda.com eBook E-rate 68

Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. This is a bonanza for the tech industry and other vendors. Indeed, $2.3 All Common Core testing will be done online.

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

PublicSchoolWORKS became possible in the late ’90s when the government launched the E-Rate Program. This required a business service model that was absolutely unique in the school safety industry, and my primary role as CEO is to keep this vision alive across all departments.”.

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E-rate Software Report Company 100

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

He was recognized with the Tech Champion Award at the 2022 Digital Industry Dynamite Awards and featured in the EdTech50. Brad is a publisher of education and children's books as well as leads the strategic vision of the organization. He is a co-author of two upcoming books, The AI Classroom, and The Discipline Code.

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Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

Education Superhighway

JUNE 24, 2019

What led you to become passionate about expanding broadband access, and what motivates you most about your role as Director of Instructional Policy and State E-rate Coordinator at DESE? They provided free technical assistance to education administrators in navigating the E-rate program. Technology is not a panacea.

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Technology E-rate Broadband Outcomes 74

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 2, 2016

After years of questioning the accessibility of Amazon’s Kindle e-reader , the National Federation of the Blind today announced that it will work with the online retailer to improve reading experiences for blind, low-vision, and deaf-blind students. Students also would be able to rate content. Schools’ e-Book ‘Marketplace’.

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Accessibility E-rate Assistive Technology iPad 40

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

A recent report found Indiana’s rates at their lowest in recent history. Just 59 percent of students here enroll after high school, a drop from a rate of 61 percent in 2018. College-going rates were even lower among Black, Hispanic and Latino, and low-income students. She’s updating it to include lessons from the pandemic.

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E-rate Secondary Report Trends 102

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Employees pay $1 a day to participate, and the company covers “tuition, books and fees,” according to an explanation of the program on the retail giant’s website. She said the students also tend to have higher completion rates in college programs than those not supported by their employers.

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Study Pearson E-rate Training 101

Learning with 'e's

MAY 13, 2019

The bar is actually called Vokno , and it's somewhat spartan and minimal, with industrial overtones. Just outside Vokno is a large city, where finance, manufacturing, commerce and industry are constantly in ebb and flow. Posted by Steve Wheeler from Learning with e's. The exterior looks like it's about to collapse.

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E-rate Industry Conference Meeting 35

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 143

techlearning

JUNE 27, 2018

“Our talented, hardworking team is the driving force behind Curriculum Associates’ success and is why we remain an innovative leader in the education technology industry.” The BBJ also prints the annual Book of Lists—the region’s top resource for business decision-makers seeking information about potential clients, suppliers, and partners.

E-rate 40

E-rate Company Instructional Materials Survey 40

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

If they are right, it would mean short-circuiting the famous “10,000-hour rule” based on studies by education researcher Anders Ericsson and popularized by bestselling author Malcolm Gladwell in his book “Outliers.” If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.”

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Education Learning Software Knewton 215

Edsurge

JUNE 22, 2017

Amazon has become one of the most valuable companies in the world—with a current market value of $475 billion —based on its domination of e-commerce (holding an astounding 50 percent share of all online retail sales); its leadership in the cloud computing business ; and the strength of its software algorithms.

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Software Trends E-rate Coursera 99

The 21st Century Principal

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Maintaining a “traditional” school calendar was not about helping schools do a better job teaching kids, it was mostly about preservation of the status quo, and preserving the school calendar they enjoyed while attending Industrial Age schools, not to mention profit.

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Industry Policies E-rate Meeting 89

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics has been a hot topic for a while in the education industry. Being so hot also means that the industry uses the term “learning analytics” in a variety of ways. For all of us who have been in the e-Learning world for a while, talking about learning analytics is like calling an old friend by a new name.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

ExcelinEd

AUGUST 3, 2020

P rovide s additional funding for schools serving communities with higher poverty rates ; and . The TEA also mailed books directly to students’ homes this summer. . A llow s elementary schools the flexibility to add additional instructional days (up to 210 days); . Student-Centered Response to COVID-19 .

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Digital Divide E-rate Laptops Assessment 28

eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Although AI is not new in other industries, it’s still an emerging trend in education and we are finally allowing ourselves a glimpse of hope, skepticism and wonderment. Today, over 2.9

Trends 52

Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2021

Policies issued in July by China’s government restricting the country’s massive tutoring industry may aim to give birth to a new era of education in China, one that eases pressure on kids to excel at all costs and diminishes the power of edtech companies. One is cultural, says Yong Zhao, author of the book “Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Dragon?:

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EdTech Company Industry E-rate 149

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

per semester for what it calls Cengage Unlimited, its full e-library, and another $50 for access to a related homework system that professors often assign with the textbook. After all, students can’t resell a digital book that goes away after the semester ends. We want to help them study better. We need data to be able to do that.”

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Accessibility Pearson Secondary E-rate 200

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

A student in New York uses Google Docs on her classroom iPad to discuss themes in the class’s latest book with her group. billion was spent on devices by K-12 schools in 2015, and the Software and Information Industry Association estimates that nearly $8.4 Many school districts said they did not attempt to negotiate prices with Apple.

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iPad Broadband Software Company 78

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

The company has built several tools to do that, including a customizable reading challenge platform and a mobile app, reading challenge templates, and diverse book recommendations. This new feature provides easy access to engaging learning materials that can deepen conversations about favorite books among students, educators, and families.

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EdTech Lenovo Robotics Laptops 130

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

OCTOBER 17, 2011

Politics and Policies FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski announced Connect to Compete , a new non-profit initiative that brings private industry and the non-profit sector together to help expand broadband adoption and promote digital literacy. Launches Rated JPG reports that beloved toy-maker LEGO is building its own social network.

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Knewton Pearson E-rate Education 43

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 16, 2020

The subject of recent National Book Award–winning memoir The Yellow House, New Orleans East is “a blank space on someone’s mental map” of the city, writes author Sarah M. Fewer than half of its students were performing on grade level, and the state had given it a D rating two years in a row. billion tourism industry.

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Report E-rate Study Groups 73

Evelyn Learning

JUNE 7, 2023

Operational Cost Gone are the days when the things required to impart education were just different subject books, a professor, a blackboard, chalk, desks, and students. A classroom has become an e-classroom, with tablets on each and every desk. Now, the time has changed. How to Make Education Affordable? Dr. Danny Barnes.

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How To Secondary Education E-rate 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 12, 2018

Middle school: h-a-t-e-d it. But a national survey indicates this optimism may be misplaced: Just 16 percent of college instructors rated incoming students as “well” or “very well” prepared for college-level work, according to the 2015 study by ACT, the creators of the standardized college entrance exam. School just isn’t for me.

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E-rate Industry Report Survey 97

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

I agreed on the conditions that I would retain copyright in the chapter and that it would appear in the book under a Creative Commons license. Now that the book is appearing in print, I’m publishing the full-text chapter here so that there will be an easier-to-access open access version of the chapter available online.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60

Wired Campus

APRIL 30, 2015

And we use that particular matching feature to then guide them through those job roles, the industries, and eventually to the employers that find them. And so our idea was simple: to connect the two by allowing students to pay per use for their book. So this 8-percent e-textbook adoption rate is very alarming.

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E-rate Company Course MOOC 28

EdNews Daily

JULY 10, 2019

EdTech that pretests for Lexile level then offers a range of books and monitors page progress has the ability to pinpoint possibly misunderstood material using such algorithms. By definition, it’s the “motion” of “e.” Schools everywhere are experiencing massive attrition rates. Diversity meant desegregation and inclusivity.

EdTech 203

EdTech E-rate Trends Equity of Access 203

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). " Maybe, maybe not.

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EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

I recently revisited the central prediction of the influential 2008 book, Disrupting Class – that the growth in computer-based delivery of education will accelerate swiftly until, by 2019, half of all high school classes will be taught over the Internet – in two blog posts ( here and here ). " Maybe, maybe not.

EdTech 150

EdTech Tablets Policies E-rate 150

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 22, 2018

Quoting his owner in his book Life of an American Slave , Douglass wrote, “[I]f you teach that n *r (speaking of myself) how to read, there would be no keeping him. It describes the philosophical battles undergirding the debates between the merits of an industrial arts or liberal arts education, which still permeate campuses today.

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E-rate System Report Industry 105

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

they do boost graduation rates.). Via Buzzfeed : “The Industry That Was Crushed By The Obama Administration.” Via Buzzfeed’s Molly Hensley-Clancy : “These Colleges Have The Worst Student Loan Default Rates In The Country.” ” More on the topic on his website , e-Literate. It lives.).

Education 40

Education E-rate MOOC Report 40

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2020

“There's a big giant access issue, both in terms of what happens when there’s no internet and then also what happens when you don’t have a device that can go on the internet,” says Beth Holland, the digital equity and rural project director at the Consortium for School Networking, an industry group for school tech directors.

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Accessibility Broadband E-rate Smartphone 204

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 10, 2014

ACTFL is an individual membership organization of more than 12,000 language educators and administrators from elementary through graduate education, as well as government and industry. First, learn how to discover new tools rated for learning, mapped to Common Core, and see how other teachers are using them. Happy reading!

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Google Classroom Digital Citizenship Conference 54

eSchool News

DECEMBER 11, 2023

Traditional textbooks are being replaced by interactive e-books and online resources, giving students dynamic and multimedia-rich content that can be updated as the world changes. Adaptive learning platforms and educational apps cater to individual learning styles and paces, enabling students to progress at their own rate.

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Technology Education Adaptive Learning Accessibility 71