The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

Edsurge

DECEMBER 27, 2017

But Christmas came early for some higher-ed institutions in the form of freebies and discounts from big technology companies. Apple also reached out with iPad Pros and other hardware at a discounted rate. But these efforts are part of a longer-term strategy for these companies to train future workers in their technology.

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Company E-rate iPad Training 83

EdTech Magazine

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

As K–12 schools continue their E-rate processes for 2019, districts should be considering what tools are worth investing in to provide their students with the best outcomes in the coming year. . Digital transformation in schools is already happening at a rapid rate, and there seems to be no sign of slowing down.

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Trends E-rate Analysis Education 407

The Hechinger Report

APRIL 5, 2022

A new driver only a few months past his training period, he had to sit out for six weeks without pay. Then, when his foot had finally healed, he discovered that his company, CRST Expedited, had fired him. He had signed a contract to work for CRST for 10 months in exchange for a two-week training course.

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Training Company E-rate Industry 27

Neo LMS

DECEMBER 14, 2017

I have tried to focus instead on actual case studies demonstrating the success of e-learning models in these environments. Community Health Volunteer Training. The Health Enablement and Learning Platform (HELP), delivers training to CHVs using their basic phones. The initial phase was a 12 month pilot to train 318 CHVs.

E-rate 150

E-rate Blended Learning Case Study Mobility 150

The Game Agency

AUGUST 29, 2019

Consequently, their training is best in class and can serve as a model for all other industries. Over the past decade, health care professionals have adopted game-based learning in volume, resulting in improved training and compliance rates, boosted patient care, and time and cost savings for clinical practices. ?.

Industry 40

Industry Training Game-Based Learning Gamification 40

eSpark

AUGUST 8, 2023

Amazon tried building a similar program to improve their hiring process and almost immediately realized the system was penalizing women because the dataset it was trained on reflected the male-dominant tech culture of the time. The humans who fine-tune the system The initial dataset is only the first step in ChatGPT’s training process.

E-rate 98

E-rate Training Comparison Outcomes 98

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. Pearson, the parent company of Connections Education, the second largest for-profit online charter operator, reported enrollment growth in its virtual schools division of 20 percent in 2020.

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E-rate Pearson Company Report 123

Education Superhighway

AUGUST 29, 2018

Participates in the E-rate competitive bidding process. While we do provide guidance about E-rate filing strategies through our website, webinars, and other avenues, we do not directly apply to provide services to districts. Typically, their recommendations focus on the services their company can provide to schools.

E-rate 69

E-rate Broadband Company Training 69

Neo LMS

OCTOBER 2, 2018

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. It seems that technical training is less relevant here than e-learning course design.

Secondary 300

Secondary LMS E-rate Dropout 300

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

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EdTech Common Core Chromebook iPad 176

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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E-rate Software Report Company 100

Edsurge

MAY 30, 2018

Employees pay $1 a day to participate, and the company covers “tuition, books and fees,” according to an explanation of the program on the retail giant’s website. Employers like Walmart and Starbucks typically have high employee turnover, and they know that training new workers is expensive. The retail chain employs more than 1.4

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Study Pearson E-rate Training 104

Marketplace K-12

AUGUST 30, 2016

Future revenue in the $33 billion e-learning market is expected to fall precipitously in the United States and internationally, but sales of other types of digital learning products are predicted to rise, according to a market research report released recently. Unstable Economies Impact E-Learning Market.

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Report E-rate OER LMS 70

Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

Teaching at colleges is often done without any formal training. If both happen together, that’s a 9x improvement in the rate of learning.” Newkirk calls his company Acuitus , in hopes of encouraging sharpness of thought. And the approach produced graduates who vastly outperformed cohorts trained using traditional methods.

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Education Learning Software Knewton 216

The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 23, 2022

A recent report found Indiana’s rates at their lowest in recent history. Just 59 percent of students here enroll after high school, a drop from a rate of 61 percent in 2018. College-going rates were even lower among Black, Hispanic and Latino, and low-income students. She’s updating it to include lessons from the pandemic.

E-rate 102

E-rate Secondary Report Trends 102

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. More concerning, federal funding for workforce training programs has been declining over the years. “We

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Training Company Analysis E-rate 100

The CoolCatTeacher

APRIL 6, 2023

It doesn't have information that is false or there's unconscious or implicit biases either from our own input, from what we're asking, or from the datasets that the AI is trained on. So, for example, I know of an ed tech company in the U.K. Yeah, I think we'll solve it. I think it's a major problem at the moment.

Classroom 425

Classroom Tools Data Twitter 425

The CoolCatTeacher

MAY 10, 2022

His role includes training teachers and administrators on all things related to technology and district initiatives. It tells you the rate it gives you is so much data and it took a matter of not even a minute. That’s R-e-a-d-l-e-e – get started with Readlee today! Ricardo Recinos.

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Accessibility Tools Microsoft Data 385

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 9, 2020

Compare that to companies today, like the e-commerce giant Amazon, which in 2019 reportedly employed 798,000 persons and is currently projected to employ more than 1 million by the end of 2020. Philip’s Normal and Industrial School in San Antonio to educate and train women recently emancipated from slavery in a trade.

Industry 121

Industry E-rate Mobility Meeting 121

Digital Promise

MAY 27, 2020

The biggest problem that we’ve had with the few kids who don’t have access are the contracts that the companies have to have to get those installed. In Owsley County, Kentucky, where the median household income is $15,805 , many families are unable to afford the monthly fees.

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Digital Divide Education Accessibility E-rate 250

Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

Most recently, one of the most widely-used education technology companies, Edmodo, had records for. Often they read about these incidents on the news before receiving official notice from the district or company. “We Fortunately, the company confirmed that no one else had accessed that data. over 77 million users compromised.

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EdTech Data Edmodo Company 84

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

government terms “persistent poverty,” meaning that it has had poverty rates at or exceeding 20 percent for over 30 years. A generation ago, the biggest employers in eastern Kentucky were coal companies, which received significant incentives, including tax breaks, from local and state governments to operate in the region.

Kaplan 105

Kaplan E-rate Report Tablets 105

TeacherCast

APRIL 4, 2015

This learning technique trains your memory to absorb information on a deeper level, to be recalled and used at any time. Use Reflect for memorising e-book clippings, reviewing lecture notes, keeping ideas and thoughts fresh in your mind. Reflect is the first project of his new company Fluxmatix Ventures.

E-rate 68

E-rate Company Video Training 68

edWeb.net

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

It was then the district knew that students—especially older ones—needed to be better trained on digital citizenship before entering life after high school. Then, they figured out what they needed to satisfy for required federal E-rate guidelines. Life Schools started small in the first year.

Digital Citizenship 40

Digital Citizenship Symantec E-rate Guidelines 40

The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2019

On the flip side, research by the Annie E. Third-grade reading proficiency rates improved across most Universal schools from 10 to 20 percentage points during the five years of the initiative. We saw great results. Sign up for our newsletter.

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E-rate Analysis Strategy Data 111

Edsurge

AUGUST 7, 2018

For more than 20 years, the Federal Communications Commission has directed the multi-billion dollar E-rate program, which provides taxpayer-supported construction and service discounts that districts and libraries can use toward internet costs. A quarter of respondents rated the system neither easy nor difficult in the 2017 survey.

E-rate 80

E-rate Broadband Survey Analysis 80

eSchool News

APRIL 15, 2016

Survey questions ranged across the education spectrum and included the impact of the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), technology-supported learning, increasing graduation rates, and serving special needs students. Training staff emerged as the biggest challenge, with procuring and maintaining hardware a close second.

E-rate 40

E-rate Survey Policies Technology Support 40

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 14, 2016

Many companies trying to find a market in K-12 schools face a question that fills them with anxiety, if not outright dread: How much technology can teachers handle? If it overwhelms them, the odds for companies’ get much longer, right out of the gate. The results will probably prove both encouraging and dismaying to companies.

Survey 40

Survey E-rate Company Exercises 40

The Hechinger Report

JULY 15, 2018

The schools are the brainchild of Charles Butt, a big donor to local education causes and chairman of H-E-B, the region’s largest grocery store chain. While some educators worry about turning schools into vehicles for job readiness, efforts to integrate technical training and academic education continue to gain traction.

E-rate 97

E-rate Microsoft Industry STEM 97

Learning with 'e's

JULY 16, 2012

I once trained as a photographer. We learnt a lot of practical skills, such as how to light a subject in studio conditions, and we learnt about exposure rates and shutter speeds. At present in the UK we have a silo system of education and training. Do L and D departments and companies talk to the schools?

E-rate 48

E-rate Secondary Training Personal Learning Network 48

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.

iPad 80

iPad Broadband Software Company 80

eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2024

billion people are still without internet, and the rate of internet growth has actually slowed. Laura Fischer, VP, Learning Design & Content Development, Learning A-Z Looking ahead, I anticipate that in 2024 the generative AI training wheels will come off and propel adoption of this technology. Today, over 2.9

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Trends EdTech Industry Data 144

techlearning

AUGUST 30, 2018

The eight steps are: 1) identify need; 2) discover and select; 3) plan; 4) train and implement; 5) collect data; 6) analyze and decide; 7) negotiate and purchase; and 8) summarize and share. The Framework provides a step-by-step process to help education leaders and technology developers run successful pilots.

Guidelines 40

Guidelines Student Data Privacy E-rate Data 40

eSchool News

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Gabe Soumakian: With E-rate modernization, the Every Student Succeeds Act (ESSA), and more taking place at once, what are you looking at in terms of changes to the way you’re funding technology these days? Stuart Burt : When they changed E-rate a couple years ago, it was a learning curve.

OER 48

OER E-rate Broadband Future Ready 48

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2016

Consider this gap: some 99 percent of K-12 public schools and libraries in some form or fashion (thanks in large part to the E-Rate program) yet 30 percent of Americans. based ClassBook.com , the parent company of OpenRoom, an outside advisory firm that works with schools to design and implement technology digital learning programs.

E-rate 40

E-rate Chromebook Accessibility Flipped Classroom 40

IAD Learning

FEBRUARY 9, 2018

Depending on how far we want to take our data collection, we could potentially collect library records, e-book consumption patterns, social network information, etc. What are we going to do when our analytical insights show students at risk, failed learning processes, or low-quality training content? Benefits of learning analytics.

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Learning Analytics LMS Analysis Learning 62