eSchool News

NOVEMBER 22, 2023

Campbell spent 17 years at Discovery Education, the global leader in standards-based digital content for K-12 school districts, and most recently served as President of the company. Co-founders Steve Campbell and Dr. Joseph Wise will remain actively involved in the business. Throughout my career I have championed equity in education.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 9, 2016

Secretary of Education Arne Duncan has joined the board of directors for Pluralsight , a Utah-based ed-tech company that provides online courses in various subjects, including software development and information technology, the news site Fast Company reported Thursday.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

In 2020, according to the National Center for Education Statistics (NCES), the high school dropout rate was 5.3% About McGraw Hill McGraw Hill is a leading global education company that partners with millions of educators, learners and professionals around the world. Learn more at www.ancorahigh.com.

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Digital Promise

APRIL 23, 2019

When schools persistently graduate less than half of their students of color and students with disabilities, we call those schools dropout factories. Real change can come from our unanimous stance against ineffective edtech, including predatory companies who make baseless claims in order to sell their products.

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eSchool News

JUNE 29, 2022

He has more than 20 years of experience growing small companies and optimizing portfolio management. Listed as a Model Dropout Prevention Program, Ripple Effects’ resources have been used by more than 400,000 students a year in more than 4,000 school across all 50 states. ABOUT RIPPLE EFFECTS.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 12, 2021

Build company-specific programs that focus on recruiting and/or customized training. Encourage more companies to support local colleges and students through mentorship programs, internships and summer job opportunities. For example, at energy companies, data scientists help reduce costs, maximize investments and improve public safety.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2019

High School Dropout. The title of Anthony Johnson’s book explains why he’s an unlikely educator: it’s called “High School Dropout to Teacher of the Year.” Here's the count-down of the most-listened-to episodes of the year. Meet Anthony Johnson: Teacher of the Year. Rebel ‘Mayor.’

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Although everyone wants magic solutions that can transform high-school dropouts into Google engineers in six months, this rarely happens. Employers need to be willing to invest in this talent after they hire them—and to recognize that the companies might need to change the way they train managers and onboard teams.

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Digital Promise

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

They also identified new partnerships they will continue with researchers, companies, and fellow League districts. Throughout the meeting, participants witnessed some of the work that has had a positive impact on intractable problems in the district, such as the dropout rate and the achievement gap.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

A range of specialist companies and private institutions is now providing excellent higher education components, as well as providing ancillary and support services such as examination and certification services, learning support, learning analytics, etc. .” A grim future for today’s providers of HE?

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eSchool News

MARCH 21, 2024

Bilingual education’s impact With 1 in every 10 students experiencing a lack of English proficiency, millions are at risk for struggles with reading and writing comprehension, reduced academic achievement, and less rigorous tracks of study, which lead to increased dropout rates, and lowered educational attainment and human capital.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s not a retail company. It’s not a retail company. As for graduation rates that weren’t increasing, and dropout rates that didn’t decline, she said, “you have to ask why.”. A university analysis shows that this approach has sharply reduced dropout rates. And you can’t. It’s not a bank. And you can’t. It’s not a bank.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Collectively, college dropouts owe a staggering $1.35 In just one year (2010), the cost of college dropouts was $4.5 Companies like Civitas and Starfish provide data to universities so that they can zero in on who’s at risk so that faculty on the ground can support students in a targeted way. trillion in loans.

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Edsurge

JUNE 1, 2020

I want to see this built, but I don’t want to run a company,” Bergman tells EdSurge. The company already has a technology platform and, more importantly, school customers, which will help deliver his text nudges at scale. The company recently raised $3.5 In other words, he gets to keep being a researcher. “We

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 16, 2020

LearnWell, a leading mental health services company in K-12 education, announced it has expanded its services through an agreement with Comprehensive Counseling LCSWs, a New York-based counseling practice. James Hickey, president of Comprehensive Counseling, has joined LearnWell as Vice President of Counseling Services.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The dropout spike was even more startling for community college students like Izzy, an increase of about 3.5 The rising dropout rate on college campuses has consequences for individual students, their families and the economy. Castro-Chavez took the spring semester off and focused on her trucking company job. percentage points.

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edWeb.net

APRIL 30, 2021

McNulty is the president of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and the Successful Practices Network (SPN). Prior to that, Ray was Dean for the School of Education at Southern New Hampshire University which Fast Company Magazine named the 12th most innovative organization in the world in its World’s 50 Most Innovative Companies.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 10, 2016

NSLA states summer learning loss “ is one of the most significant causes of the achievement gap between lower and higher income youth and one of the strongest contributors to the high school dropout rate. Students were also exposed to careers through company tours and guest lecturers from the field.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 6, 2022

For two years we’ve had sort of a petri dish of experimenting with learning online,” said Anant Agarwal, chief platform officer of the online program management company 2U and former CEO of edX, the online provider created by MIT and Harvard and sold last year to 2U for $800 million.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 23, 2022

Like many dropouts, Floyd always intended to finish his college education. The number of college dropouts swelled during the tight labor market; an additional 2 million people joined their ranks from only a year and a half earlier in 2018. As with many dropouts, Floyd had unpaid student debt to resolve. It’s kind of funny.”

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 6, 2019

Companies like Amazon and Netflix have been using data tools like these for years to track our clicks and steer us to buy or watch more of their products. James Wiley is a technology analyst with Eduventures, which does consulting work for companies in the predictive analytics industry. It wasn’t always this way.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 4, 2018

After all, the plummeting number of prospects makes it much harder to replace dropouts than it was when there was a seemingly bottomless supply of freshmen. This aggressive response has helped lower the dropout rate at the Texarkana campus back to 44 percent, according to still-unreleased figures, the university says.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

based company by serving as executive chairman of its board of directors. This week the company’s stock was trading at $10 a share, down from $16.53 In 2014 K12 suffered a big blow when the 10,800-student Agora Cyber Charter School in Pennsylvania ditched the private management company in favor of managing its own operations.

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Ask a Tech Teacher

JUNE 10, 2016

Statistically, almost half of school dropouts do so because they don’t see the relevance. Select the type of expert you’d like based on occupation, company, or industry (optional if you don’t have a preference). If desired, attach documents potential presenters can review to prepare.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

” We have a significantly low dropout rate and high on-time graduation rate in Albemarle. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Edsurge

MAY 1, 2018

American profit and revenue are often attributed to the outsized efforts of strong CEOs, lead financiers and highly-competitive companies. To make it as an ed tech start-up, to grow into a successful online institution or company or to maintain a dominant position, sales must rise, and do so quickly and constantly.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 17, 2022

Schools can refer students to state tax collectors to have their tax refund garnished or send them to debt collection companies, which often charge high fees. Such a program benefits colleges as well, by helping them boost enrollment and, ultimately, bring in more money from the former dropouts. “It

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EdNews Daily

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

Famous billionaire college dropouts like Mark Zuckerberg, Bill Gates, and the late Steve Jobs are prominent examples of successes who never completed undergraduate degrees. Although we may make much of college dropout successes, remember this: The biggest Internet Age success of all — Google — was started within a graduate program, as a Ph.D.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 30, 2016

Mark Edwards—the 2013 national superintendent of the year who taught thousands of educators how technology can play a pivotal role in improving academic results—will join Discovery Education in August, the company announced today. based company. See also: Superintendent of the Year Emphasized Tech, Reduced Dropouts.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 6, 2017

That is why many companies and colleges have been taking deliberate efforts to increase diversity in their organizations. Related: How one district solved the special education dropout problem. We urge more companies to follow in this auspicious trend of hiring those with learning differences due to neurodiversity.

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Edsurge

APRIL 23, 2019

Now we hear from Julia Dexter, co-founder of Squiggle Park, a game-based reading company. Before starting an education company, he was a middle school teacher for 10 years, and he shares how an interaction with a student made him realize just how hard it can feel to try and really reach all students to give them equal opportunity.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 26, 2019

Among the many other problems dragging down Puerto Rico’s stagnant economy, made worse by hurricanes Irma and Maria in 2017, is a huge high school dropout rate and, among those students who do manage to graduate, a comparatively low trajectory to college — especially college on the mainland — and a high dropout rate there, too.

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EdNews Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

That F often transposed into poor work reports or lateral/downward movements in the company. University of California, California high school dropouts cost state $46.4 If you pursued employment, that A turned into a raise, a better office space, or prestige among your colleagues. What happened to the brain with limitless potential?

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EdNews Daily

JULY 2, 2016

I grew up in my parent’s motel and attended local urban public schools, which had a dropout rate of 40 percent. I closed a deal with Mark for $250,000 in exchange for a 20 percent equity stake in my test-prep company. Since working with Mark, the company has expanded into 20 new sites throughout the country.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2017

Students who withdraw are also much more likely to default on their loans; dropouts make up two-thirds of defaults nationwide. The number of dropouts with federal loans at these institutions has grown from 35,443 in 2007-09 to more than 56,600 in 2013-15. [But] That’s typical, said Smith of the Center on Education and the Workforce.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 29, 2018

A high school dropout cannot tap on an app and get the help they need if it involves more than one organization. These employers even enlist their own young employees to tweet, post on Instagram or their favorite social media, and talk about how good it is to work at their company.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

The Roux Institute opened last year in borrowed space in this tech company building on the Portland, Maine, waterfront to teach computer science and other subjects. Thanks to one-on-one counseling like this, the dropout rate is a third lower than at conventional universities and colleges, according to figures provided by the school.

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