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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. School closures in all 50 states have sent educators and parents alike scrambling to find online learning resources to keep kids busy and productive at home. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz. This story also appeared in USA Today.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

Edsurge

When the unemployment rate spiked during the spring of 2020, jobs that required a college degree declined more than those that didn’t, and new college graduates were hit the hardest. Surveys suggest that employees stay longer at companies that offer formal training pathways. With two-thirds of U.S.

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Despite mediocre records, for-profit online charter schools are selling parents on staying virtual

The Hechinger Report

Then she saw an online ad for the Ohio Distance and Electronic Learning Academy (OHDELA). It’s a virtual charter school, the tuition paid with taxpayer dollars, run by the for-profit charter management company ACCEL Schools. They also say they are taking steps to improve retention and graduation rates. At Stride Inc.,

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HE Challenges: Fast changing digital teaching methods

Neo LMS

Naturally, technology plays a central role in scaling quality education supply to meet this demand. In the previous posts on this topic our examination found that technology can and does help when it comes to improving completion rates , reducing tuition costs and helping universities to bridge the revenue gap.

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Bids to bring fiber internet to schools are denied funding seven times more often than other projects

The Hechinger Report

It is perhaps unsurprising, then, to learn that Woodman is part of the 6 percent of public school districts that still don’t meet federal connectivity benchmarks. Imagine how many customers a company could get running 10 miles of fiber somewhere else. A typical E-rate project gets denied at a 4 percent rate,” Marwell said. “A

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Network Essentials: Successful Procurement

Education Superhighway

Publicly available data has allowed thousands of school leaders to compare their existing service and pricing with neighbors and similarly-sized districts, ultimately helping them to negotiate with their vendor so that they can meet their technology goals. Make sure your team meets regularly to assess and address potential project risks.

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Cash Awards Honor Faculty and Institutions for Innovative Use of Digital Tools

Edsurge

So Fulé and her colleagues devised a program—free, voluntary, and entirely online—that has helped hundreds of students roll through remediation coursework and ace their math placement tests while measurably boosting their confidence about success in both math and college. Not insignificantly, the award came with a cash prize of $100,000.

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