Edsurge

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

It offers advice to tech companies that are jumping into the metaverse, with principles from learning science for how to shape the development of their products and services. The report is clear that the tech offers promises for education. But it notes there are worries about potential missteps as well.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

At the same time, more STEM employers are hiring workers with humanities backgrounds, according to a new report by researchers at Strada Education Network and Emsi, a labor market analytics firm. The parallel trends are caused by a mismatch between job seekers and employers, the study argues. Will they still prefer the top talent?

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 8, 2022

The drop in humanities majors and a significant and simultaneous rise in the number of STEM graduates show that students have altered their understanding of what they should study to achieve success in the post-collegiate job market. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example.

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Edsurge

APRIL 28, 2020

She is the vice president of advocacy and engagement at the Mozilla Foundation, which today released a new report examining the privacy and security policies of 15 commonly used video-conferencing apps. Researchers also reached out to the companies to clarify confusing policies and for additional information, she added.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 9, 2021

Three new reports on student achievement during the pandemic all point to larger declines in math than in reading and widening gaps between the haves and have-nots. The McKinsey report predicted that this generation of less-educated students could potentially reduce the size of the U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 12, 2020

For instance, education companies that rely on corporate customers may take a hit, as those clients look to cut costs. While COVID-19 hit at the tail end of the first quarter, some publicly traded education companies already reported an impact on their Q1 2020 earnings. The company reported cash and cash equivalent of $151.5

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2021

Department of Education, called the Institute for Education Sciences, commissioned a report to wade through all the studies on education technology that can be used at home in order to find which ones were proven to work. No small studies were allowed. We haven’t done the study yet to understand.

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Digital Promise

JANUARY 30, 2017

While there is widespread support for ed-tech companies to use research when designing their products, there is still little information available about how companies actually do (or should do) this work. As a result, pioneering companies have had to adapt these methods as they strive to make products that are truly “research-based.”.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Many of its 7,000 middle and high schoolers, mostly Hispanic and low-income, were struggling in their studies and course failure rates had spiked. The nonprofit charter school network also invited a team of university researchers to study whether the online tutoring service was helping students. This story also appeared in Mind/Shift.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 10, 2022

Studies released during the second half of 2021 confirm that students learned a lot more in person than they did during remote instruction. Now we have a new batch of studies analyzing how students did on fall 2021 assessments. Credit: Michael Loccisano/Getty Images. The slide was much larger in math than in reading.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

One of the more high profile efforts has been supported by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, which in 2013 began providing grant funding to colleges and companies for its Integrated Planning and Advising for Student Success initiative, or iPASS for short. The ultimate goal is to help more students persist and finish college.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

In January 2024, five researchers from Texas A&M University published their findings online in the journal Scientific Studies of Reading. While there are sometimes shortcomings in the underlying studies, the conclusions from all the phonemic meta-analyses appear to be pointing in the same direction. “If But science evolved.

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Edsurge

APRIL 17, 2023

Not very, according to “Uncovering Privacy and Security Challenges In K-12 Schools,” a new study of how districts handle privacy and security issues from researchers at the University of Chicago and New York University. Nearly all of the top sites linked to by schools “extensively” used tracking software, according to the report.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

But instead of a classroom, Wolochow now works on the Silicon Valley campus of a company that’s using technology to make learning more accessible to people throughout the world. More companies in the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics—or STEM—fields are hiring workers with liberal arts backgrounds, according to a recent report.

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eSchool News

JULY 7, 2021

Red Bank, NJ, July 06, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) — The National Lexile Study, a respected and recognized independent research analysis conducted by MetaMetrics®, the creators of the Lexile® Framework, was released today by Achieve3000. Achieve3000 and MetaMetrics have partnered to produce the National Lexile Study for the last two years.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 29, 2022

Credit: Photo: Rory Doyle / The Hechinger Report. We know that kids love it and so do parents and teachers,” said Emily Morton, a researcher at NWEA, a nonprofit assessment company, who has studied four-day school weeks around the country. More schools switched to a four-day schedule during the pandemic.

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The CoolCatTeacher

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

” She studied students displaced after Hurricane Maria and what helped them resume schooling successfully. This powerful tool links with standards — and gives us the ability to do some timesaving, efficient reporting and tracking. My school uses Planboard with Chalk.com ’s curriculum planning tool.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

And while many entrepreneurs claim that their products are 'research-based," it's difficult for consumers to determine whether the studies they cite or conduct are of a certain caliber. Here are the top companies in each category. The Learning Sciences Category: BrainQuake, Inc. Top marks in this category went to BrainQuake, Inc.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 2, 2021

That kind of recruiting was a relatively new solution for IBM and other companies that generally require bachelor’s degrees for entry-level white-collar workers. It feels like we’re the kids of the company,” said Haruza, now 27. Bridget Gainer, Aon’s chief commercial officer, said the company is stronger for it.

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Edsurge

MAY 18, 2019

A study by the International Workplace Group estimates that 50 percent of people globally work outside their headquarters for at least 2.5 Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. days each week.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 6, 2020

A photo from a 2018 report shows a teacher using Lumilo smart glasses, developed at Carnegie Mellon University, in an experiment. During the experiment, more than 300 seventh and eighth graders in 18 classrooms spent a week using instructional math software that had performed well in previous studies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 5, 2020

Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 All she had to do was fill out a faculty profile, and she happily answered questions about how she had used the service and did an interview for an article on the company’s website. per month, or $119.40

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Edsurge

AUGUST 19, 2021

The university is building the course material as part of a partnership with a VR entertainment company called Dreamscape Immersive, which is led by Walter Parkes, who produced Hollywood blockbusters including “Men in Black,” “Minority Report” and “Gladiator.” I think that’s what's going to sell it,” he said.

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Edsurge

MARCH 12, 2024

That’s according to the recent data from the “ State of Higher Education Study ,” conducted by the analytics company Gallup and the private foundation Lumina. Of all those surveyed for this latest study, 35 percent had contemplated “stopping out,” or ceasing to complete their coursework.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 18, 2024

Credit: Patricia Kühfuss for The Hechinger Report Neriman is taking part in Kein Abschluss ohne Anschluss (KAoA) — or “no graduation without connection” — a program that has been rolled out across the German state of North Rhine-Westphalia to help students better plan for their futures. amid growing disenchantment with university education.

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Edsurge

JUNE 26, 2019

Across the massive, brightly colored expo hall at ISTE 2019 , the annual education technology conference where companies display and demo their latest gadgets, upgrades and software, several vendors showcased the new skills they have developed for Alexa-enabled devices. Her passion project took off from there.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 15, 2022

It’s not a retail company. It’s not a retail company. Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. Credit: Steven Vargo for The Hechinger Report. Administrators who treat faculty as employees have it backward, said Scott Abbott, a professor of philosophy and integrated studies. And you can’t. It’s not a bank.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Not long after the search engine company was founded in 1998, psychologists began to wonder how the ability to have so much information instantly available was changing our brains. The researchers didn’t actually study how people use Google or any internet search engine. There are two lessons from this study.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2022

High textbook costs continue to prove a barrier to college for some students, with some studies showing that many students skip textbook purchases even if they worry it’ll harm their grades because of the price tag. In 2020, Lumen acquired Faculty Guild , a coaching company for instructors, now called Lumen Circles.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 20, 2024

Along with colleagues, she plans this June to release a report outlining recommended regulations and safeguards. But there’s not much information that compares the quality of for-profit and nonprofit child care programs, which could hinder efforts to put restrictions and regulations on the companies.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 28, 2018

Photo: Jackie Mader/The Hechinger Report. Those are the findings of a report recently released by researchers at the School of Education at the University of California, Irvine. Companies know if you want parents to download their apps, claiming it’s ‘educational’ is going to increase those chances,” Golin said.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 9, 2023

“These concerns may be heightened by knowing the potential ease with which companies may access the posts of schools and districts for uses not intended to be accessed by those in schools who have posted,” researchers wrote. There are educational leaders in schools wrestling with these ethical quandaries , the report authors noted.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

To link aReading scores with the official Lexile scale, a study was conducted with assessment results. FastBridge is Illuminate Education’s universal screening, diagnostic reporting, and progress monitoring solution for reading, math and social-emotional behavior. CEO and co-founder of MetaMetrics.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 7, 2019

Tech entrepreneur Fred Singer is the CEO and founder of Echo360 , a company which he launched after a visit to his son’s classroom. Singer has funded and led a wide range of digital companies over the past twenty years, and the list of business and charitable boards on which he serves is long. How are you measuring success?

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

23, 2021) – Lexia® Learning, a Cambium Learning® Group company, today released new research titled “Using Lexia Core5 Reading to Address Learning Loss and Accelerate Learning: Insights from a 2020-21 Nationwide Study.” The full “Using Lexia Core5 Reading” report is available at [link]. BOSTON ( Sept. About Lexia Learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 22, 2018

Around this time of the school year, it’s not uncommon to see sleep-deprived students slumped over library desks studying late hours in preparation for final exams. Another sleep pod company on the horizon is hoping to address cost concerns by dropping sleep pods onto campuses for free—and instead rely on a paid advertising model.

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Edsurge

APRIL 24, 2018

Between the creation of a social rating system and street cameras with facial recognition capabilities, technology reports coming out of China have raised serious concerns for privacy advocates. In 2015, the firm acquired the education technology platform, Promethean , a company that creates interactive displays for schools.

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