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.

Kaplan 40

Kaplan Dropout Comparison Learning 40

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.

Social Media 121

Social Media Dropout Training Smartphone 121

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 12, 2023

Greenville County Schools has begun partnering with companies in the area, such as BMW and Michelin, to develop courses in mechatronics and automotive research. Students intubated dummies at a station run by a local hospital, while others hammered nails into a log at a station for a construction company.

Industry 131

Industry Elementary Education Robotics 131

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 12, 2018

Once again, the story has a happy outcome. The home of Southwire, a large company producing electrical cabling and wire, Carrolton started a program called 12 for Life designed to boost the high school graduation rate. There is a dramatic retelling of his efforts to persuade parents that closing these schools was the right thing to do.

Dropout 69

Dropout Policies Elementary Data 69

Edsurge

AUGUST 11, 2016

He’s worried that, rather than advancing our human potential, many edtech companies and universities are perpetuating the status quo. Siemens also serves on the advisory board of learning analytics company Civitas Learning and is a mentor to startups in Intel’s Education Accelerator. Our technology is our ideology,” Siemens says.

Digital Learning 60

Digital Learning Technology MOOC Learning Analytics 60

The Hechinger Report

MAY 4, 2019

On a laptop in the nearly empty office, he worked on code for a webpage he was developing for his employer, the learning materials company Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. In half an hour, he needed to join a conference call about changes to the company’s website. He had been at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt for four months. in February 2019.

Company 112

Company Survey Report Training 112

The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 1, 2022

These efforts are meant to improve learning outcomes, as well as to be fair and advance equity, especially for new students and transfer students,” Lewis said. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. Even car insurance companies give “good-grades discounts” to student-age drivers.

Assessment 143

Assessment Report Dropout System 143

MindShift

MARCH 3, 2017

My wireless company sends me a text alert when I’m about to use up my monthly data. NPR Ed previously covered trials using text messages and emails that prompt college students to sign up for financial aid and reduce dropouts among adult-education students. My bank sends me a text alert when my account balance is low.

Dropout 28

Dropout Study Software Outcomes 28

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Learning analytics data is the set of information collected about the student, the learning environment, the learning interactions, and the learning outcomes. Let’s discuss these components one by one. This information is usually gathered while the learning process is taking place. Benefits of learning analytics.

Learning Analytics 62

Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 1, 2018

The online coursework is designed by the education company Pearson. Critics of these programs — and their arguably too-good-to-be-true outcomes — question whether students are actually learning the material they set out to learn, or just being shuttled along for the credits that set them up for graduation.

Online Learning 67

Online Learning Blended Learning Pearson Learning 67

The Hechinger Report

MAY 2, 2016

If boys go to college less often than they otherwise would, you’re lowering not only their economic outcomes but economic outcomes for future generations.”. companies, at just under 15 percent, according to the Center for American Progress. Phillip Levine, Wellesley College economist. Women fare only slightly better at U.S.

Outcomes 40

Outcomes Report Study Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 17, 2017

Only 18 percent of ninth-graders graduate high school and go on to earn a bachelor’s degree within 10 years of starting high school, according to the University of Chicago Consortium on School Research , a group focused on analyzing educational outcomes in the city. Related: Dance students are claiming turf in a gang-free zone in Chicago.

Policies 60

Policies Study Report Training 60

The Hechinger Report

JULY 26, 2018

The companies select them,” Sorrell said. At the start of his tenure, the college’s original accrediting body — the Southern Association of Colleges and Schools — removed its accreditation because of the school’s large debt and concerns over student learning outcomes, among other reasons. “We You have to compete.”.

Report 93

Report Meeting Accessibility Outcomes 93

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 3, 2017

Throughout her career, Hassan has supported and sponsored bills aimed at improving outcomes for people with disabilities. His dad works as a foreman at a painting company and has hired Michael. Maggie Hassan (D-N.H.) questions Secretary of Education Betsy DeVos during her confirmation hearing. Photo: Chip Somodevilla/Getty Images.

Education 111

Education Strategy Report Training 111

Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2018

I’ve spent 16 years serving on and chairing the board of the National Dropout Prevention Center (NDPC) and 25 years leading companies that serve schools and students of all kinds. When we reach each and every student by using a precision differentiation approach, we see them connect to learning and attain amazing outcomes.

Differentiated Instruction 159

Differentiated Instruction Learning Dropout Assessment 159

Edsurge

MARCH 20, 2018

Many of the students I’ve listened to were, at one time or another, college dropouts. Full disclosure: I’m an advisor to the company.) Students who graduate college have, on average, significantly better health outcomes with lower rates of obesity and heavy drinking. Over a million students drop out of college each year.

Dropout 89

Dropout Policies Report Study 89

techlearning

JULY 3, 2018

Irvine, Lake Elsinore, and Santa Clara, CA, Atlanta, GA, and Centennial , CO (July 03, 2018) Illuminate Education , the company transforming K-12 instruction through education intelligence solutions, has merged with IO Education, SchoolCity, Alpine Achievement, and Key Data Systems (KDS). The company is headquartered in Atlanta, GA.

Personalized Learning 40

Personalized Learning Education Industry Dropout 40

The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 10, 2022

Only a quarter of recent grads in another survey, by the educational publishing and technology company Cengage, said that, if they could do it again, they’d take the same educational path. Related: Colleges’ new solution to enrollment declines: Reducing the number of dropouts. We haven’t been clear.

Education 144

Education Survey Report Trends 144

The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 30, 2016

LAS VEGAS — Last year, before Anthony Boccia joined the teaching staff at Valley High School, his students spent hours in a windowless room in the company of John Travolta and Olivia Newton-John. Our challenges — poverty, language learning, parents under- or unemployed — are very clearly manifest in our student outcomes.”.

Training 40

Training Dropout Report Meeting 40

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 30, 2018

About one-third of all black collegians earn degrees in either a STEM-related (science, technology, engineering and math) field or in business, according to my analysis of integrated post-secondary education data system (IPEDS), the national dataset of college outcomes. See chart below.). Maybe we need to rethink our advice. percent).”

Dropout 88

Dropout STEM Analysis Company 88

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

Consumer information about colleges and graduate and professional schools For law schools: The American Bar Association collects bar passage rates, employment outcomes and other information about the 199 U.S. Almost none of the institutions that withdrew from the rankings would respond to it.

Survey 91

Survey Data Report Dropout 91

Edsurge

JULY 14, 2016

He also pointed out that ABLE is a nonprofit school attempting to serve homeless students, unlike many other virtual charter schools run by for-profit companies. The Watch reports that, of the 93 students enrolled at ABLE at the start of the 2015-2016 school year, just 12 remained until the end of the year, a steep dropout rate.

Dropout 60

Dropout Report Policies Outcomes 60

The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 12, 2021

After 20 years as a house cleaner, she’d gotten better work as a packaging operator at local manufacturing and pharmaceutical companies, but kept losing jobs because she had trouble filling out the required forms. And they’ve bought equipment and services designed to improve academic outcomes.

Software 97

Software Report Trends Adobe 97

Edsurge

MAY 16, 2017

To try to get some answers, EdSurge recently sat down with Donald Graham, chairman of Graham Holdings Company, the group that sold the 15-campus Kaplan University to Purdue (for just $1). Is Kaplan now essentially competing with companies like 2U and other so-called ‘enabler’ providers? And I am immensely proud of that.

Kaplan 74

Kaplan Course Dropout Company 74

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 21, 2017

Ten years later, the couple sat across a wooden table from Caleb, now 16, a high school dropout and, as of September, survivor of a suicide attempt. Developed by a company now called Edgenuity , the platform is available for all K-12 subjects. “It Brent, Jennifer and Caleb lived with these issues for nearly a decade.

Education 81

Education Assistive Technology Advocacy System 81

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 3, 2023

Academic outcomes in Puerto Rico are poor and have been on a steady decline since Hurricane Maria. 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. The poor outcomes are super frustrating,” said Díaz.

Elementary 105

Elementary Report Dropout System 105

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 27, 2018

If you see TOPS cut, you are going to see a lot of students leave the state and a lot of students not be able to afford college, and both of those are not good outcomes for the state of Louisiana.”. After college, Taylor started an oil company and eventually made the Forbes list of world’s richest people. ‘A

Dropout 82

Dropout Policies STEM Outcomes 82

Doug Levin

MARCH 5, 2017

Students selling notes online a legal gray area, schools say | ArkansasOnline → University of Arkansas faculty members are debating how to best deal with the selling of lecture notes by students, spurred on by the practices of online study resource companies known for aggressive recruiting tactics.

EdTech 170

EdTech Coursera Data Case Study 170

Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

” Via Politico : “Education Secretary Betsy DeVos has increased her financial stake in a ‘neurofeedback’ company that says its technology treats attention deficit disorder and the symptoms of autism. The Flatiron School has released its latest “outcomes report.” ” $100,000.

Education 43

Education MOOC Company Report 43

Hack Education

JUNE 16, 2017

Task Force Seeks Comment on Higher-Ed Outcomes Reporting Standards.” Some internet-access advocates say EBS is underutilized at best, and wasted at worst, because loose regulatory oversight by the FCC has allowed most of the spectrum to fall into the hands of commercial internet companies. ” The company has raised $16.5

Education 44

Education Coursera MOOC Kaplan 44

Hack Education

MARCH 10, 2017

Following up on ProPublica reporting , “ Florida to Examine Whether Alternative Charter Schools Underreport Dropouts.” Via GeekWire : “ Amazon Education GM leaves; company says it ‘remains committed’ to K–12 technology.” She made $9.6 ” The Business of Job Training. ” Contests.

Education 46

Education Robotics E-rate Social Media 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 26, 2018

” Via The Atlantic : “Why Many College Dropouts Are Returning to School in North Carolina.” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ For-Profit College Attendance Linked to Poor Financial Outcomes.” Doesn’t look like the company has anyone to take his place yet. ” HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Education 60

Education Khan Academy Company MOOC 60

Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

a blockbuster case whose outcome will affect whether transgender students can use the school bathroom that aligns with their gender identity. Its outcome will have ramifications in schools throughout the country.” ” “A Conveyor Belt of Dropouts and Debt at For-Profit Colleges ” by Susan Dynarski.

Education 40

Education Pearson Blackboard Survey 40