Edsurge

JUNE 11, 2018

But what does it mean for a company to personalize its support for the teachers who use its product? School leader, Jordan Silvestri and Kiddom representative, Melissa Giroux, describe what it takes for an edtech company to deliver the kind of personalized experience to its customers that teachers give to their students.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

The results from those new Common Core tests – designed explicitly to look for the skills kids need in college, namely critical thinking, problem solving and analytical writing skills – have been held up as proof of the persistence of deep-seated disparities in the education provided to poor students and children of color.

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Edsurge

MAY 26, 2019

So how do companies hire and develop standout talent who may be new to the sector? In fact, I found myself explaining a lot of the ins and outs of the education system, and the hardships that teachers and administrators deal with everyday. Sorry, simply being a former student doesn’t count.) Read the updates too: parts one and two.

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eSchool News

MAY 20, 2021

We are so pleased that enVision Mathematics has won this prestigious award,” said Bethlam Forsa, CEO of Savvas Learning Company. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY. To learn more, visit Savvas Learning Company. Nationally recognized curriculum earns distinction for best “Mathematics Instructional Solution”.

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A Principal's Reflections

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

I should have clarified my comment a bit more by explaining that I was referring to repetitive standardized tests being taken while in the same job with the same school, company, or corporation. This is not learning, but forced conformity into a system that focuses more on numbers than actual skills that can help one succeed in life.

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A Principal's Reflections

APRIL 11, 2013

This means states like New Jersey and New York are closer to implementing new teacher evaluation systems as a result of Race to the Top, NCLB waivers, and other mandates adopted through recent legislation. Unfortunately common sense has not, at the moment, prevailed in this case. Can we do better?

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 18, 2016

Teaching grit doesn’t require a new class or unit — it can be compatible with much in our current education system. But while many teachers already understand and embrace the concept, whether they call it grit or use another name for it, school systems must continue to change to foreground the importance of grit.

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The Jose Vilson

DECEMBER 12, 2021

It’s a term that first saw a spotlight during the Obama administration, when then-Secretary of Education Arne Duncan and company wanted to integrate the Common Core State Standards into our schools. Also, how well does matriculation into college reify our informal/formal social caste systems?

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 23, 2019

and claims to explain how to teach the tragedy of the star-crossed lovers in a fun-filled way while hitting almost 50 Common Core standards in five weeks. A curriculum expert who reviewed the pedagogy explained to me that the unit was “weak” and does not meet Common Core standards as the creator claimed.

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Edsurge

JULY 16, 2019

So I’ve been preaching that wholesale mastery learning isn’t realistic because you have to really think about your grade system. If you look at the content on the MAP accelerator, it is common core aligned content and it’s all from the standards in the common core and not just what may or may not be in the MAP.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Grace’s story is just one example of how the American education system and American policing tactics converge. The education system has a dangerous obsession with rule-following for Black children that cuts short opportunities, just as policing has a dangerous obsession with rule-following for Black people that cuts short lives.

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Board of Education and the development of the Common Core have helped to level the playing field, but it is still painfully clear that zip code and race are two of the strongest determiners of student success. There are three parts to the instructional core: students, teachers, and content. Initiatives such as Brown v.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

FEBRUARY 16, 2015

There are a lot of online math systems to help students through one of school’s toughest subjects (if not science). aligned with Blooms Taxonomy, Common Core, ISTE, or other state/national/international standards. aligned with Blooms Taxonomy, Common Core, ISTE, or other state/national/international standards.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2019

One could also look at the thousands of edtech companies and education nonprofits that have sprung up in the last few decades as suppliers of goods and services designed to help teachers perform their work more effectively. Goals can vary dramatically from state to state, district to district and even school to school.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Moulton has worked in the field for about 15 years with a small family-run company called Educational Data Systems , which makes exams for local districts and high stakes tests for the state of California. You pick your subject area, let’s say it’s language, and you have a set of standards, like the Common Core standards.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 15, 2016

Alan November One problem is that companies are still making money off of selling those “$1000 pencils” as ways to improve productivity. So, can companies and educators co-exist peacefully in the world of edtech, while also working to redefine education? There still seems to be a big demand for that. This isn’t new.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2020

Amanda DoAmaral, a former Advanced Placement teacher who now runs a company offering AP test prep, says several students have vented their frustration with submission issues. When he converted his photo into a PDF file and tried uploading it to the system, he received an error message that said “the file was too small,” he recalls.

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 8, 2016

Instead of focusing on a practical method of teaching that enables students to speak and understand English, the country’s education system strongly emphasizes rote memorization of grammar rules and vocabulary. What were two top motivating factors behind starting the company? The company is the first U.S.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 18, 2016

Educators can do all of that with a set of free tools created by CAST , a nonprofit research and development company dedicated to breaking down barriers to learning. PreK–12 educators can create, mix, and share instructional resources based on UDL and aligned to Common Core. Help your students learn to write a better lab report.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 5, 2018

Ever since taking the helm as CEO in 2015, Marten Roorda says ACT has closed 10 deals in which it has invested in, acquired or formed strategic partnerships with educational companies. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 5, 2017

Perhaps it is because of the myth of the entrepreneur that resounds throughout popular culture: examples like Bill Gates and Mark Zuckerberg, who both dropped out of college, and in doing so, seemingly spurned education in order to build major tech companies—and yet now each have education initiatives of their own. Blackboard Inc.,

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 29, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. He recently authored Transforming Schools: Using Project-Based Learning, Performance Assessment and Common Core Standards. By Kenna McHugh. Bob Lenz became CEO of Buck Institute for Education PBLWorks in 2015.

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EdNews Daily

DECEMBER 11, 2016

What were two things that excited you about working with the company? 51Talk’s use of Common Core in the well-prepared lessons will be familiar to teachers and will also provide the convenience of focusing solely on the instruction without the added curriculum planning. You recently joined 51Talk as an online English teacher.

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edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Accountability systems will be put in place to track and implement the accountability plans established by each state. Steve also addressed any confusion regarding the Common Core State Standards. Since the Common Core is not a federal initiative, it is unaffected by ESSA.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 29, 2016

Two assessment companies—Educational Testing Service and Data Recognition Corp.—are The Texas Education Agency announced last week that it will collect a fine from ETS, the company responsible for the statewide delivery and administration of its State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness tests, with liquidated damages amounting to $5.7

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Marketplace K-12

MAY 16, 2016

Pearson CEO John Fallon recently met with a group of reporters at Education Week’ s offices and spoke about his company’s business strategies and record, and offered a defense against some of its detractors’ claims. We’re very confident that our products are aligned to the common core.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2016

Let's examine these two issues: Silos You can find OER in dedicated online repositories including OpenEd , Curriki , and OER Commons. Several software companies have their own repositories, such as Microsoft’s Docs.com, Schoology’s public resources, Canvas Commons, and more. Many of the silos are poorly organized.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2019

For a lot of school districts, there are also new jobs being created, and questions about what those job descriptions look like—things we really didn’t think about before the Common Core state standards and online state testing were rolled out. How do you feel about teachers going on their own to try apps in their classrooms?

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Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2021

The year-over-year increase started to taper off [eventually], which actually was an interesting trend that I think a lot of folks have seen, primarily because I think the overall learning time in the system has gone down year-over-year. And then in 2015 or 2016, my assistant says, “Hey, this company wants to meet. I’m a big fan.”

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

These include Common Core, TEKS, Next General Science Standards, or California/National CTE Standards (optional but gives the experts better insight into your curriculum objectives). Select the type of expert you’d like based on occupation, company, or industry (optional if you don’t have a preference).

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Fractus Learning

DECEMBER 1, 2020

The arcade-style math app for kids is designed for Grade K-5 with ordinary skill presets aligned with Common Core State Standards. The app is one of the best math apps to encourage kids to learn math through engaging games and rewards system. The interactive reward system motivates children to learn and improve their scores.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 24, 2017

Open-licensed learning materials have generally been slower to carve out a spot in the K-12 market they have in higher education, where companies like Lumen Learning have found target demographics. Authored by nonprofit Illustrative Mathematics, the curriculum covers Common Core standards for grades 6-8 math. Larry Singer.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 14, 2016

Open-source assessment system is based on alternate achievement standards for students with the most significant cognitive disabilities. The NCSC alternate assessment evaluates knowledge of Common Core Math and ELA (reading and writing) standards at grades 3-8 and 11.

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Edsurge

APRIL 3, 2017

The content will be based on the goals laid in the National Common Curricular Base (the Brazilian equivalent to the Common Core standards in the United States), which aims to guide the skills and abilities that every Brazilian student should be taught in order to succeed in the 21st century.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

The investment arrives as the company looks to expand its product offering to allow educators and students to learn about, and build creatively with technology, code and electronics. Startup in maker education endorsed by Steve Wozniak secures $2.1M seed round to expand product offering to educators and students across the world.

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eSchool News

JUNE 22, 2016

Educational technology company Oddcast launched a new version of its Voki website for teachers along with a free iOS application called Voki for Education. Voki also offers an ever growing library of Common Core-aligned lessons – reimagined as Voki presentations. Voki can be customized for a variety of subjects.

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Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 1, 2016

Edgenuity today announced its acquisition of Compass Learning, bringing together two well-known ed-tech companies whose digital offerings will now span kindergarten through 12th grade. Assessments are built into both systems. In an interview, Factor said the controversy had no bearing on the company or its goals. Company Exec.

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