eSchool News

JUNE 8, 2021

Burlington, VT (June 8, 2021) – InSpace , a collaborative video conferencing platform that replicates personal interaction between students and teachers in virtual classrooms, today announcedthat the company has closed on $6 million in two rounds of seed funding. The company is headquartered in Burlington, Vermont, with engineers in the U.S.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2020

For example, despite increased activity on the platform—concurrent users on the Canvas LMS were up 60 percent from typical use patterns and video submissions are up tenfold from typical use patterns pre-Covid-19—the costs of moving more data and training more educators will keep the company from a short-term windfall, Benson says.

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eSchool News

APRIL 20, 2021

Based on the assessment data of 3.8 Designed to provide educators with targeted data to help them understand how students are performing relative to typical years, the report is based on the results of more than 3.8 BLOOMINGTON, Minn. million students’ assessments.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 25, 2016

If you’re an educator, chances are you’ve heard the phrase “data-driven instruction,” where you’re asked to constantly assess, analyze, and adjust how you teach students. But one word in that phrase often raises a host of questions: What counts as “data”? That’s where the data truly tells a story.” How do you collect it?

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2023

The figure comes from 900 universities and colleges that provide employment data for about 370,000 full-time and 90,000 part-time faculty. If you’re cobbling together jobs at different universities to make ends meet, you don’t have the time to do the work you want to with your students,” said AFT President Randi Weingarten.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 16, 2019

Meeting this year’s students “where they are” is going to look different than it did for last year’s class. When you’re the company behind those classroom solutions that are either deemed essential or scrapable at the end of the year, it’s imperative to keep a finger on the pulse of those conversations districts are having on an annual basis.

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Gradelink

JULY 9, 2019

Face Time In the business world, companies typically arrange meetings multiple times a week, sometimes daily. But unlike many companies, all of this structure within faculty meetings doesn’t allow for much open discussion.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data. Education leaders will continue to put resources toward wellness programs, but with greater scrutiny and demand for evidence-based data.

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The Game Agency

SEPTEMBER 11, 2019

The Association for Talent Development (ATD) estimates that companies spent an average of $1,273 per year per employee on training. Mercer’s 2018 global talent trends survey found that “most employees want their company to offer more flexible work options.” Games Provide Data. Games Can Be Played Anywhere.

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techlearning

MARCH 13, 2018

Overall Comparisons for Students in Grades K–5 In addition to the increase in students working at or above grade level, the percentage of students working on skills two or more grade levels below their grade decreased from 19 percent to only two percent. Students who met usage targets also significantly increased their RIT scores by 16.8

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Those activities often leave data trails, making it possible to quickly measure how well, say, a section of an online textbook is conveying the knowledge a teacher hopes to impart, or whether the material needs to be revisited and revised. Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 18, 2017

With a huge shortage of college graduates in data and computer science, tech companies are taking matters into their own hands and providing education directly to prospective tech workers. million new tech jobs will be created between 2014 and 2024, many of them requiring people with data and computer-science credentials.

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Sony Microsoft Industry Company 92

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

When administrators in Ohio’s Mentor Public Schools were buying MacBooks during the 2015-16 school year, the local Best Buy was offering a lower price than Apple, even after the company’s standard discount for school districts. When buying specific software, administrators may have to purchase directly from one company.

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techlearning

MAY 7, 2018

BOSTON (May 7, 2018)– Educational technology that adapts to meet the personal needs of individual students is in big demand in the pre-K-12 learning environment, with reading being a discipline where one technology-based adaptive literacy tool is driving better outcomes and learning experiences. point increase in NWEA reading scores.

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The 21st Century Principal

JANUARY 25, 2014

That post, entitled "Common Core Standards Will Help NC Meet Its Challenges," was written by Caroline McCullen, the director of education initiatives at SAS which already has a multi-million dollar contract with North Carolina to provide value-added teacher data analysis software for teacher and principal evaluations.

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The Cornerstone for Teachers

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

These days, we are just starting to realize that keeping salary a secret is a ploy for companies, not some privacy protection for employees. By comparison, teachers in New York can expect to make around $85K per year. What can I do to make ends meet? So, let’s talk about it! 65K sounds like a respectable place to start, right?

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TeachThought - Learn better.

MARCH 13, 2015

ALEXANDRIA, VA Statistics—the science of learning from data—is the fastest-growing science, technology, engineering and math (STEM) undergraduate degree in the United States over the last four years, an analysis of federal government education data conducted by the American Statistical Association (ASA) revealed.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

On the down side, as the technology evolves it will also enable hackers to be more adept at infiltrating systems that store sensitive student data. Education leaders will continue to put resources toward wellness programs, but with greater scrutiny and demand for evidence-based data.

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Education Superhighway

MAY 13, 2016

Fiber is the only network infrastructure technology that can scale cost-effectively to meet growing bandwidth needs. According to our data, however, nearly 12% of U.S. In fact, the FCC recommends that school districts provide a minimum of 100 kbps per student in bandwidth today and 1 Mbps per student by 2018.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

The National Survey of Student Engagement , or NSSE (pronounced “Nessie”), which McCormick now runs, was conceived in 2000 to track the ways students spend their time in college, including how and how much they study, meet with faculty and participate in class discussions. The game is set up around prestige. It’s not about effectiveness.”.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

We have data that shows that students on their esports team raise their attendance rate to the same level as traditional athletes. It runs more like a track meet than anything else. That's the closest comparison. If you have parents involved, you'd have to have a parent meeting. But… Vicki Davis (04:47.022) Wow.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2016

Image and data credits are listed at the bottom of this post. But the data is flawed. The Internet did become more privatized, more commercialized around that date – 1991 – and thanks to companies like AOL, a version of it became more accessible to more people. You can find the slides here.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 15, 2024

This story also appeared in Mind/Shift One India-based tutoring company, Cuemath, trains its tutors to encourage students to talk more. The tutoring takes place at home via online video, like a Zoom meeting with a whiteboard, where both tutor and student can work on math problems together.

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MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

It’s normal to have at least half of users not meeting the program’s usage targets. To measure recent program impact in Texas , we used quasi-experimental methods to compare the growth of ST Math students versus matched comparisons within the same subgroup. In actuality, implementation varies tremendously.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2016

For one thing, NCLB forced states to shine a brighter light on their lowest-achieving students and publicly share data on their progress — often for the first time. That data has become a valuable tool for educators, policy makers and researchers. NCLB also led states to overhaul another important metric: high school graduation rates.

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edWeb.net

AUGUST 5, 2022

It’s difficult for teachers and school and district leaders to identify effective edtech that meets the broad needs of diverse students, explained educators and technology experts in the edLeader Panel, “ Quality Control: Why EdTech Product Certifications Should Matter to District Leaders.” Good advice, but not easy to do.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The company has launched the First-Gen Focus program to connect first-generation students with mentors including athletes and influencers and teach them job search skills. By comparison, he said, “People who have parents who went to college, they know stuff. Braven matches students with coaches who work for participating companies.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 11, 2021

The figure is through 2018, the most recent year for which this data is available. You don’t have the companies if you don’t have the workers. Lumina is among the funders of The Hechinger Report, which produced this story.) It’s a problem with implications beyond equity and fairness. That’s how it works. It’s that simple.”.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 11, 2019

Zovio, Ashford’s parent company, declined to discuss Baca’s case unless he signed a waiver, but generally denied assertions that it improperly told veterans they were not eligible for GI Bill benefits. Formerly Bridgepoint Education, the company now called Zovio has raised eyebrows for years. Former Sen. Photo: Scott J.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

repeatedly asked DeVos if she believed that all schools that receive public money, including private schools, should meet the same accountability standards. Two of the companies that run schools in Sweden are listed on the country’s stock exchange. Tim Kaine, D-Va., Many people were alarmed by her answers.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 27, 2019

billion for student housing projects, a small but growing slice of the nearly $138 billion raised for all kinds of real estate, according to the data firm Preqin. The company has plans to add another 20,000 beds by the fall of 2020. Last year, real-estate fund managers raised $2.5 Last year, real-estate fund managers raised $2.5

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

By comparison, so few students made the cut in Puerto Rico in either grade that year that the percentages rounded to zero. Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report Federal funds paid for a private company to run an afterschool academic recovery program at El Coquí this school year.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

” Via NPR : “Outcry After Louisiana Teacher Arrested During School Board Meeting.” awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” This is how well your district does.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

But even without knowing the funding data for the month of December, I can say a lot. ” Phrases like these were repeated again and again and again this year, as many ed-tech companies have, for years now, relied on venture capital as their primary source of revenue – a source that’s no longer readily available.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 22, 2017

It doesn’t tell them how that data was ascertained. The state Labor Department figures, by comparison, he said, are readily available, even if they don’t necessarily show what previous graduates of that specific Washburn course actually earn. It could be that they did a survey and that’s what came back. Education Department did.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 26, 2018

In Iowa in particular, the companies charge steep prices — nearly $20,000 on average for a cosmetology certificate, the equivalent of a two-year community college degree twice over — and they have fought to keep the required number of school hours higher than anywhere else in the country. Students were regularly pulled out of Ms.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

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