EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 30, 2017

An edupreneur is an entrepreneur who works within in the education sector. They can be found building new education organizations and businesses, developing the latest edtech tools, running new schools, and giving keynote speeches around the world. Edupreneurs are usually mission-driven and live for bringing to light positive impact.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Our task force consists of students, faculty, college presidents, business leaders, climate leaders and former government officials working together to build on the important leadership that we have seen emerging in our sector. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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Digital Promise

FEBRUARY 21, 2019

Every day, students in our district engage with key computational thinking competencies such as algorithmic thinking, collecting and analyzing data, decomposing problems, and building models and simulations. Through our district’s pathways for computational thinking, students work with simulations and building models across grade levels.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 22, 2019

That’s according to a report released this month by the Education Redesign Lab at the Harvard Graduate School of Education, which identifies personalized success plans as potentially transformative, based on a growing body of evidence of their impact. Building an Effective Success Plan for Students. ” — Paul Reville.

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EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Bogus emails that con or coerce users into disclosing key personal data are responsible for the vast majority of successful cyberattacks across the public and private sectors. The person in marketing shouldn’t be able to view and edit reports from the financial side. Or, they should only be able to view certain reports.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 22, 2020

The message from our government is clear: the United States does not care about public education. School districts are woefully underfunded for their charge, and strategic management and equitable allocation of dollars is severely lacking—across public education specifically and the public sector generally.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2021

The economic dislocations of the pandemic shined a spotlight on the urgent need for worker reskilling and upskilling , which has become a top policy priority for cities, states and the federal government. This direction is also fueled by a wave of new coalitions , non-profits and philanthropic investments.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 1, 2021

Our public-school system — with more than 98,000 schools covering over 2 million acres of land across the country — recently received a D+ on America’s infrastructure report card. More than half of our school districts have multiple failing building systems, according to a recent government report.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

According to a recent report by McKinsey Global Institute , an overwhelming 60 percent of jobs are expected to be automated in the near future, leaving many workers across service industries — such as healthcare, retail, restaurant, hospitality, and manufacturing — uncertain about their futures.

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Neo LMS

SEPTEMBER 20, 2018

I’ll look specifically at the non-profit college sector that must increasingly seek out non?governmental governmental sources of revenue either to replace lost or inadequate funding or to acquire support for new research initiatives, programs, equipment, buildings, staff, and student assistance. Universities get business savvy.

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EdTech Magazine

APRIL 25, 2018

Build a Head-of-the-Class Information Security Team. Public K–12 educational institutions gain funding from federal and state governments, and the resulting pay scale is lower than the private sector. jena.passut_7651. Wed, 04/25/2018 - 15:05. Encourage Feedback, Demonstrate Initiative with Your Team.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Related: To fight teacher shortages, some states are looking to community colleges to train a new generation of educators The traditional perception of teachers as the sole arbiters of knowledge, dispensed within school buildings from 8 a.m. for 10 months a year, needs to be expanded. Sign up for Hechinger’s newsletter.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 6, 2021

In the second phase, students would participate in a skill-building service- or business-learning project. The internships could be in government, in nonprofit organizations or in the private sector. Champions of work-based learning have emerged in business, city government and the school and college systems.

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eSchool News

APRIL 29, 2024

The resource, which has been informed by over 70 organizations representing industry, government, non-profits, and educator associations, offers policy ideas, informational briefs, talking points, and a customizable presentation. Build Capacity: Provide funding and programs to support professional development on AI.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2022

Credit: AJ Mast for The Hechinger Report. The analysis used data from 2015, the latest available at the time, though more recent government statistics produce a similar conclusion. Related: Momentum builds behind a way to lower the cost of college: A degree in three years. Credit: Yunuen Bonaparte for The Hechinger Report.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 12, 2020

A national working group that I was recently a part of—led by non-profit Opportunity America—recently produced a report that aptly characterized the community college as “ the indispensable institution.” As the COVID-19 recession decimates state and local government budgets, funding for community colleges is poised to suffer.

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Doug Levin

MAY 12, 2015

Over the years I’ve been engaged in OER, I’ve seen a near religious faith in the idea of OER that seems to justify a ‘build it and they will come’-type mentality to implementation and sustainability. remember this? remember this? ). At least, that’s what I think. But, then again, what do I know.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2022

It is deeply disappointing to see leaders, yet again, build the needed testing infrastructure in other sectors but not in child care. First, every level of government should begin investing in social and emotional supports for young children now. As we see it, the solutions here are straightforward.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

“The pandemic has highlighted how important the early years are, and interest in this market is growing as families, communities and governments are paying more attention,” says Matt Glickman, CEO of Promise Venture Studio, a nonprofit that supports startups and other organizations building child care and early education services.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 25, 2021

They can test water and soil, plant trees, compost and build soil fertility. As an educator, I like to think of Sustainability as building the capability to thrive over time in the context of a changing, interdependent and uncertain world. Distinguishing weather from climate is a good foundational step. They can all help.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 11, 2017

Both Michigan and Georgetown’s teams report to the provost, while EdPLus reports into an internal operating board chaired by the university’s President Michael Crow. A champion’s primary charge is building buy-in and momentum for the innovation agenda. Others hire talent from edtech companies or elsewhere in the private sector.

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Doug Levin

MARCH 14, 2017

Indeed, news reports document that school districts across the country – including Spring Lake Park Schools (MN) , Bigfork Public Schools (MT) , Horry County Schools (SC) , Rhinebeck Central School District (NY) , and Swedesboro-Woolwich School District (NJ) – have been victimized by ransomware attacks.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 11, 2019

Building a new school can benefit a community in more ways than one. Sure, there’s the value of a new educational institution where students can take classes and graduate with their diplomas, but why wait years for that spanking new building to pay off? The state reported that $146.2 Getty Images.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Some of the greatest angst I’ve had on this issue may be because I believe that while public-private partnerships can be important to helping schools advance education through technology – and to fostering innovation – that the interests and motivations of the two sectors are distinct.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 14, 2021

Attacks on high-value entities, including big businesses and federal government agencies, regularly make headlines. With these figures, one might expect the sector to attract more people. Skill-Based Workforce Planning and Career Navigation Build, don’t buy, cyber talent. How we protect our data is more important than ever.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 11, 2020

From our nation’s founding to the present, government-sponsored and supported policies have relegated black Americans to the outskirts of mainstream society. The effect of this exclusion is the perpetuation of poverty and financial instability, and the creation of a fragile black middle class that continues to build debt instead of wealth.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s a revealing example of how people inside higher education often bristle at adopting strategies from the private sector, and why colleges and universities continue to be slow to change. A new president who came to the university from the corporate sector finds herself at odds with faculty as she tries to raise student success rates.

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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. China and Ed-Tech Lead Like any other sector, China also wants to lead in implementing education technology. And why not? World economics works that way.

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Edsurge

JULY 8, 2019

Congress is proposing an innovative approach to building the federal technology talent pipeline for computer science roles, one that should be exciting for schools and students. In an environment of abundant jobs and few candidates, it is challenging for the federal government to compete for talent against the private sector.

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Edsurge

MARCH 3, 2021

She says she was thinking, “Maybe it won’t be so scary for me now,” to report in-person to school each day. “I In vaccinating the national education workforce, Biden is rendering null one of the biggest hesitations that educators cite for reopening school buildings. But the experience transpired without a hitch. That’s hard.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2020

edtech investment trends largely mirror patterns in other sectors. Pitchbook reported a similar trend, noting that the pandemic’s “impact on aggregate VC activity was hardly apocalyptic,” with healthcare, digital enterprise and consumer-service startups attracting plenty of capital. Source: EdSurge U.S.

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Tom Murray

AUGUST 31, 2016

According to a report released by the Pew Research Center, approximately 5 of the 29 million households with school-aged children lack access to high quality broadband internet while at home. As such, the Federal government, the FCC, and other organizations have partnered to support those most in need.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

And thanks to an important change in government policy, life got easier after that: She didn’t have to pay. It has a robust sector of private colleges alongside public universities, tuition higher than anywhere outside of U.S. The work paid off. Her score on the PSU was good enough to get her into the top-rated University of Chile.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The wildfires that ripped through California towns torched school buildings and postponed the start of school as students and teachers were left homeless. Nearly 6,500 schools are at high risk of flooding, according to a Pew Trusts report. A school bus makes its way on the flooded Hopper Road on September 19, 2019, in Houston, Texas.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2021

In January 2021, 40 percent of adults reported experiencing symptoms of depression and anxiety—three times more than the rate in the first half of 2019. Yet this trend persists throughout the education sector. Among government employees, teachers are feeling the most burnout. Build emotionally healthy learning environments.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

By investing in the (Governor’s Workforce Board) programs, we’re building the workforce of the future. To see the power of a shared vision and cross-agency and cross-sector collaboration, look to the state of Rhode Island. Our economy has changed, and it’s changed in ways that have created real challenges.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 5, 2021

The company, which specializes in commercial buildings, offers enviable benefits — employee stock ownership, in-house training, paid time off, sick days, a 401(k), health insurance that includes dental and vision and, in some cases, a $1,000 signing bonus. Credit: Terrell Clark for The Hechinger Report.

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