Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2020

Back then, the company was a search tool for identifying online courses. Each six-to-nine-month experience combines virtual instruction, in fields such as data science and software engineering, with personalized mentorship and project-based learning opportunities. The company guarantees graduates in the U.S.

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Pearson Company Training Software 156

Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 21, 2016

Pearson today announced that it is responding to rocky conditions and poor performance in international markets by laying off 4,000 workers and putting a greater focus on adaptive courseware and classroom products, as well as blended and online learning. Ramping Up Online Programs.

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Pearson Company Education Common Core 40

Edsurge

OCTOBER 22, 2021

based company, called Argos Education, is that the way textbooks are created and revised is due for a reset. But last year Pearson acquired the assets of Smart Sparrow , leading ASU to look for an alternative platform to deliver its offerings, which had also been growing in use. A key premise of the Lexington, Mass.-based

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Pearson OER Software Course 138

Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Teachers’ union pension funds that invest in Pearson PLC joined with other public sector investors today in petitioning the education giant to “urgently review its business strategy,” citing the company’s “tumbling revenue and plunging stock prices.” Pearson: Too Reliant on Testing?

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Pearson Strategy Company Industry 40

Ed Tech from the Ground Up

JUNE 30, 2016

to share ideas, meet new people and see old friends. As a small company it’s hard to be heard over the noise (and the smell of popcorn). This year we didn’t exhibit at ISTE, but I attended the event to hold meetings and scope out the landscape. This year, more than 16,000 teachers and administrators gathered in Denver, Colo.

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Edmodo Pearson Company Conference 150

The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. At OHDELA, enrollment more than doubled to about 5,200 students in the 2020-2021 school year, according to state data. Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. At Stride Inc., Stride Inc.,

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 127

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

As early excitement about Zoom gave way to questions and concerns about privacy, security and unequal access, other companies seized the opportunity to elbow their way into the new competition for digital communication tools appropriate for preschoolers and college students alike. But Zoom has held on. It’s high energy.”

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Company Education Kaplan Learning 186

Edsurge

JUNE 14, 2019

PLATO had reportedly spent about $50 million to buy another company to expand the school grades it serviced. But according to Brekhus, now chief product officer at Renaissance Learning, PLATO failed to effectively communicate how Lightspan fit into the company’s strategy. We send emails, we have meetings face to face,” he said.

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Strategy Edmentum EdTech Pearson 105

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2020

Founded in 2014, the London-based company provides digital content from 2,000-plus publishers. The company has 33 full-time employees with hundreds of thousands of student users. But with the recent investment, he says his team is ready to scale to meet demand. The company has raised a total of $15 million in capital.

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Pearson Company eBook Libraries 94

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Caffeinated founders paced the lobby in colorful T-shirts splattered with their company logos, polishing their pitches for their on-stage presentation and meetings with potential investors. What he has yet to find—but which he says Y Combinator would be willing to invest in—are companies that can help support and run new school models.

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Technology Education Company Pearson 118

Edsurge

MAY 9, 2017

Nearly a dozen entrepreneurs we talked to said they each received upwards of 20 emails from investment banking groups, inviting them to meetings in private suites. That’s generally how much companies have to generate for most major banks to consider working with them to find a buyer. Here’s a few of the things we noticed on Day 1.

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Pearson Microsoft Company EdTech 80

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

A pair of consultants who run a popular edtech blog plan to start offering events—in hopes of getting people at colleges and companies who don’t usually talk to each other to join forces on innovative teaching efforts. The amount of the sponsorships was not disclosed.

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Technology Education Pearson Blackboard 77

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 19, 2019

EdSurge Sessions In between hearty servings of Tex-Mex and meat, won’t you have time to stop by and meet? Where School Safety, Security, & Surveillance Meet Happy hour will have to wait, as we kick our sessions off with a sobering and important conversation that warrants your attention. Monday, March 4, 5 p.m.

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Social Media EdTech Industry Pearson 104

Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. 2004-2011: Washington Leans In.

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Kaplan Technology Education EdTech 161

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. Who does it harm?

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Common Core Pearson Analysis Company 98

edWeb.net

FEBRUARY 21, 2017

Steve Rowley, CEO of Acumen Partners, with Michael Campbell, Vice President of Acumen Partners, presented the latest updates on ESSA in the webinar, “ Making Sense of ESSA: What You Need to Know ,” co-hosted by edWeb.net and MCH Strategic Data. ESSA lays out accountabilities that must be tracked by technology and data systems.

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Common Core Pearson Industry Guidelines 40

eSchool News

APRIL 19, 2015

Unified officials demanded a refund from computer giant Apple over curriculum supplied on the devices by Pearson, which sells education services and materials worldwide. Pearson was a subcontractor to Apple under a contract approved by the Board of Education in June 2013. Unified acknowledged meeting with an agency attorney.

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iPad Pearson Tablets Guidelines 40

eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

After listening to educators, parents and caregivers from across the country, Savvas Learning Company today introduced a range of platform enhancements and new K-12 educational products aimed at making distance learning more impactful. ABOUT SAVVAS LEARNING COMPANY. Teaching Resources and Professional Learning Support.

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Learning Assessment Pearson Student Engagement 53

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 11, 2016

Billings has been at the helm of the ed-tech division of the Software & Information and Industry Association or SIIA, for 14 years, overseeing its growth as a proliferation of new companies representing a range of new types of products emerged in the industry. Companies could gain more insights from the learning sciences, too, he said.

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Industry Pearson Company Software 40

Edsurge

MAY 28, 2020

The National Council on Teacher Quality, a think tank that evaluates teacher preparation programs, doesn’t collect data related to remote learning or online education, says its director of strategic communications. and Pearson, reports the Snapshot 2020 annual report from the Digital Learning Collaborative. McGhee says.

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Education Handbook Course Elementary 213

EdTech Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2019

Storage Wars: Choosing a Secure Student Data Solution. Legislators across all 50 states have introduced student data privacy laws. The move makes sense: As educators leverage the benefits of connected classroom technologies, student data is captured and used to personalize the experience. Student data isn’t single source.

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Data Student Data Privacy Pearson EdTech 181

Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2018

Among those who have turned it into a livelihood are tutors, publishers like Pearson and Scholastic and printers. 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.

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Common Core Analysis Trends Data 155

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

According to state data, the number of young people in state juvenile justice facilities dropped from 901 at the end of 2012 to 386 in 2017. The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS. Source: PEARSON CONNEXUS. Once they start, they really want to keep going.”.

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Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 68

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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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 29, 2016

Pearson PLC today reported lower revenues in its first quarter, and escaped a proposed mandate to conduct a review of its business strategy, after a shareholders’ resolution led by the American Federation of Teachers and a coalition of pension funds was rejected decisively at its annual shareholders meeting. and elsewhere.

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Pearson Strategy Assessment Company 40

MindShift

JUNE 30, 2018

He’s also vice president for research for Pearson, the company whose automated scoring program graded some 34 million student essays on state and national high-stakes tests last year. ” Foltz says computers “learn” what’s considered good writing by analyzing essays graded by humans. Gaming the system?

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Secondary Pearson System Assessment 38

Edsurge

APRIL 5, 2019

Twelve years ago, Amplify CEO Larry Berger and I wrote about the “ pareto distribution ” of companies in the K-12 sector. Most revenue was generated by a few winner-take-all companies, then there was a long tail of subscale operators. The structure of demand created the “Big Three”—McGraw-Hill, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt and Pearson.

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Industry Edmodo Pearson Instructional Materials 83

Edsurge

OCTOBER 15, 2018

These small chunks of information are concise and targeted to meet any learning objective imaginable. They are: Tagged with meta-data — For RLOs to be useful, they must be indexed properly with meta-data. Some companies have elected to offer new subscription options much like Netflix, Hulu, and Spotify. How are RLOs used?

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Digital Learning Learning eBook Flipped Classroom 121

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2019

But to the BMO’s annual education industry conference, where company executives, investors, bankers and financiers of all stripes descended in their suits and slacks (but very few ties). On the agenda were one-on-one interviews with company CEOs and panel discussions on opportunities and challenges in different markets. Viva Amtrak!

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Industry Student Data Privacy Education Company 121

Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2019

But at an all-hands meeting at the company’s Washington, D.C. Some employees hoped the company could turn around and stayed on without pay. “We Planet3 found its biggest backer in Rob Roy, CEO of Las Vegas-area data center services company Switch, which invested $10 million in the company in 2015.

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Education Company Chegg Pearson 80

techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY ADVANCEALL ( benchmarkeducation.com ) Benchmark Education Company (BEC) released Advance ALL, a new series motivating students to read with literary and informational reading text sets. to streamline workflows for assessment and data analysis. Incorporating end user feedback, the 10.0 Illuminate 10.0

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Epson Blackboard Pearson STEM 51

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

It’s what Google uses for search queries but the company shares the model as free, open-source code. based testing company, Measurement Inc., It was easy to game these grading systems by writing gibberish that happened to meet the criteria that the robo-grader was looking for. They happened upon BERT. percent of the time.

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Training Pearson Company Google 89

The Hechinger Report

MAY 9, 2022

She is advising Curriculum Associates, one of the biggest assessment companies in the country. I spoke with Randall during the American Educational Research Association annual meeting in San Diego, where the National Council on Measurement in Education was also convening in April 2022.

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Assessment Pearson Report Company 75

techlearning

OCTOBER 25, 2018

EDSBY UPDATES ( edsby.com/edsby-k12-dataaggregation-analytics/ ) Edsby announced that it has built sophisticated data aggregation and analysis capabilities that allow states, provinces and countries to optimize their education investments and policies.

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Chromebook Pearson Student Data Privacy Data 45

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2017

Earlier this week representatives from Pearson, the Bill Gates Foundation, the Center for Education Reform, American Public Education, Inc. Here are the five policy implications that edtech companies are watching closely. You have to understand their opportunities and be able to pinpoint,” she explains.

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Policies Pearson EdTech Education 72

edWeb.net

AUGUST 27, 2020

A meeting with a professional who represents the careers about which students are curious is part of this exploration. The most crucial piece of this interaction, emphasized Hidalgo, is that students get “a chance to meet people who look like them in careers they didn’t even know existed.”. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING.

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Learning Blended Learning Company Pearson 98

Hack Education

AUGUST 12, 2016

. “In a sweeping move, the for-profit school chain has been told to lock its doors after parliament demanded it halt operations in response to its failure to meet educational and infrastructure standards.” ” Elsewhere, more claims about “the global poor” and MOOCs (and other ed-tech companies) in Edsurge.

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Education MOOC Facebook Company 40