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 funding is led by a $2.6

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”. Billion has been invested in US K-12 education technology companies since 2010. Indeed, $2.3 Ironically, the cloud brought us light.

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EdNews Daily

OCTOBER 22, 2019

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. PublicSchoolWORKS became possible in the late ’90s when the government launched the E-Rate Program. This can negatively affect student progress, grades, and even graduation rates,” explains Temming.

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Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

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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Education Superhighway

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

Since its inception, E-rate has been instrumental in making K-12 broadband more affordable and accessible than ever. When this FCC program was amended in 2014 (through the E-rate Modernization Order), it included rules providing additional funding to match any funding the state provided for eligible “special construction charges.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 10, 2017

Special ed teacher Melissa Mann shares six of her favorite edtech tools for the special education classroom. This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. Listen Now. Vicki: Fantastic.

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eSchool News

JUNE 28, 2016

After taking steps to update and increase funding for the E-rate program in 2014, this year the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) began allowing applicants to apply for discounts for dark fiber and self-provisioned fiber. sees E-rate’s expansion to include dark fiber provisioning as yet another way for U.S.

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EdTech4Beginners

OCTOBER 19, 2022

The marketing tools used to promote a company online are a significant component of the approach adaptable to companies of any size and operating in any sector. Top 7 Marketing tools to analyze the market and accelerate growth . The most effective marketing tools include: Carto.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

When we get to see effective edtech products in practice, the view is exciting: We see kids engaged, teachers energized about the kinds of thinking their students are generating and strong learning outcomes that result from well-made tools matched to the students and educators using them. Who did the research? is something you care about.

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Education Superhighway

JULY 17, 2019

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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Edsurge

JULY 3, 2017

Fulé and her colleague Don Carter, the university’s director of e-learning, launched the. Peak Mathematics uses Pearson’s MyMathTest, an online homework tool that has adaptive technology that personalizes the content and pacing for each student. “She Wallinga saw his students continually stymied by gateway math requirements.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 11, 2017

This handy free Google Docs add-on tracks things like: time spent writing, spelling-grammar-and punctuation error rates and pulls it into a clear graphical view in your teacher dashboard. What can K-2 students be expected to do in Google Tools? Using Google Tools to Help Improve Behavior and Increase Engagement. Listen Now.

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Google Digital Badges Tools E-rate 176

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze. As a result, educators have been forced to rethink how they teach using digital instructional tools and practices.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

The free differentiation tool to help students level up and learn. Schools Full of Readers: Tools for Teachers, Coaches and leaders to Support Students , is also from 2019. Stay tuned to learn about this amazing differentiation and intervention tool for kindergarten through fifth grade reading and math teachers.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

We educators should remain committed to teaching all students with the mission of advancing our cities, states and nation by preparing citizens to meet the economic development and workforce needs of today and tomorrow. If not, college leaders MUST be willing to make the hard decisions and pivot quickly to meet those needs.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 15, 2024

And we have 14 states that have teacher-run nonprofits that run the e-sports organizations for their state. So teachers together and the students that we serve are literally the largest e-sports organization in the country. And so it's a lot the same in how we should be treating e-sports. So we formed an interstate group.

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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. Check out our Fiber Toolkit for free tools and resources including the “Build Vs. Buy” comparison tool and RFP templates aligned with the new E-rate modernization rules.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Some families who meet the income requirements qualify for Head Start, a federally-funded preschool program for children living in poverty, but letting children attend means sending them on a long bus ride that could last over an hour, something many parents are unwilling to do. The obesity rate for children ages 10 to 17 in Kentucky was 20.8

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EdTech4Beginners

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

The most common goals for any project are: Attract more customers: these strategies should focus on increasing conversion rates and getting users to take a specific action (download an app, buy a product, subscribe to your newsletter, etc.). Market research: it’s like meeting friends before the big night. Ease of use.

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Education Superhighway

MARCH 26, 2018

Although this year’s E-rate cycle has come to a close, it is never too early to start planning for upgrade implementation and your future network management. For school districts that procured funding last cycle and are ready to implement, it’s critical to make sure the end results serve your long-term goals.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 28, 2020

A self-taught programmer, he found on-and-off work building websites, managing social media and handling e-commerce for dental offices, toy shops and other clients. He was working for a tech company, but this was no tech job. If students don’t get a job that meets that income threshold, the monthly payments are deferred.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

As a Title 1 district with 98 percent minority enrollment and nationally known for an above-average graduation rate, UCSD leaders credit much of the district’s success to a mission for technology equity.

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Marketplace K-12

MARCH 30, 2016

The companies and other entities creating those forums presumably get the exposure of having users enter and navigate sites they’ve created. The new online forum, HMH Marketplace, was launched with several thousand resources already loaded into the system, the company said.

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eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2016

The overall results of the inaugural survey reflect school leaders’ focus on meeting individual student needs and building teacher and leadership capacity within schools. Other challenges including identifying effective program models, implementing e-learning solutions, and providing transportation. Catapult Learning, Inc.

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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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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 12, 2017

Eric Bredder (second from left), a teacher at Monticello High School, confers with students using the CNC milling machine, one of several computer-guided fabrication tools used by his classes. But Bredder can’t give students the tool he considers most indispensable to 21st-century learning — broadband internet beyond school walls.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 5, 2024

In 2023, a new popular kid in town, better known as AI, dominated headlines and prompted debates around how students could abuse–and should use–the generative tool for learning. billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 52

edWeb.net

MAY 1, 2019

Many times, the funding is not enough, and schools supplement from outside sources, including the E-Rate program. There are no cap limits, no throttle rates, and no chastising schools when they need extra bandwidth. They collaborate to make sure the technology and services are meeting their current and future needs.

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Broadband Accessibility E-rate Mobility 41

Learning with 'e's

MARCH 20, 2014

We are delighted that Terry will be delivering a keynote speech at this year''s European Distance and E-Learning Network ( EDEN ) Conference in Zagreb in June. Being an Academic has allowed me to travel widely, to meet some very interesting people and to set my own research agenda. Terry: Of course the proliferation of web 2.0

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 16, 2019

It just feels like we are in some kind of storm,” said Joyce E. They tout “holistic” review yet boast about incoming students’ high test scores and aggressively try to increase applications so that they reject more, which lowers acceptance rates, which increases their perceived “selectivity” and moves them up in the rankings.

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The Innovative Educator

JANUARY 8, 2017

Furthermore with companies like Neverware which can turn most any old device into a high-speed Chromebook, cost and tech support are no longer the barriers they once were. 2) The filtering divide Schools that service children living in poverty receive e-rate funding which requires schools to filter the internet.

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Chromebook Internet Safety E-rate Laptops 40

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 3, 2023

This year’s Future of Education Technology Conference landed in New Orleans, and the conference was abuzz with post-pandemic learning recovery tools, solutions to promote equity among students and parents, strategies for digital access, student mental health, social and emotional learning tools, and more.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

have received billions of dollars in combined donations and gifts from private companies and individuals. Funds are available through the Every Students Succeeds Act (ESSA), Individuals with Disabilities Education Act (IDEA), E-rate program, and federal COVID relief funds like the CARES Act.

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Additionally, few companies are able to learn about the impact of the training and educational programs available to their employees or use data to improve these offerings. While about 90 percent of companies who employ frontline workers offer educational and training opportunities, and U.S. Roles that have the fastest turnover rates.

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Data Industry Training E-rate 120

MIND Research Institute

JUNE 20, 2023

Patterns & Repeatability P atterns & R e peatability are fundamental to establishing the reliability of any study finding. It’s normal to have at least half of users not meeting the program’s usage targets. This method, prescribed by the What Works Clearinghouse (WWC ), also meets ESSA Tier II evidence standards.

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Comparison EdTech E-rate Outcomes 52

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Before the Covid-19 pandemic, public school enrollment in the United States had been trending downward , thanks to birth-rate declines and more restrictive immigration policies, but the decreases rarely exceeded half a percentage point. But Koehler would need to meet many more kids like this one to stave off school closures forever.

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