Hack Education

DECEMBER 31, 2018

When I first started working as a tech reporter, I assumed – naively – that venture capitalists were smart people who did thorough research before funding a company. Knewton (adaptive learning): $182.3 They are, after all, typically investing someone else’s money. Networks matter. Zuoyebang (tutoring): $585 million.

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Trends MOOC Company Edmodo 93

MindShift

JANUARY 25, 2017

By NICHOLE DOBO, The Hechinger Report. Some education technology developers, such as Knewton, say machines can figure out what students need to know and how best to deliver it. You want to extend and maximize their time in the system,” said Jose Ferreira, Knewton’s founder and CEO.

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Personalized Learning Technology Knewton Learning 28

Hack Education

DECEMBER 23, 2019

Mind reading robo tutor in the sky” company Knewton was acquired by Wiley for $17 million — LOL — having raised over $180 million. Google was fined $170 million for violating children’s privacy on YouTube. Google got into the anti-plagiarism business. Coursera raised $109 million in venture company because investors are cray.

Technology 67

Technology Pearson Education MOOC 67

Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 22, 2017

“The Trump Administration Has Revoked A Federal Directive On Campus Rape ,” Buzzfeed reports. ” Meanwhile on Campus… “2 More Speakers Drop From Yiannopoulos’s ‘Free Speech Week’ at Berkeley ,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. (National) Education Politics. Percent Return.”

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Education Knewton Kaplan Robotics 48

Hack Education

JANUARY 26, 2018

Via Campus Technology : “ Knewton Releases $44 Adaptive Digital Textbooks.” ” Edsurge on the Google press release : “Google’s Education Suite is Still Free, but New Add-Ons For Administrators Come With a Fee.” Research, “Research,” and Reports. ” Duh.

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Education MOOC Robotics Company 46

Hack Education

OCTOBER 14, 2016

According to excerpts of speeches published by Wikileaks – stolen data – Clinton called the Common Core a “political failure” in a speech she gave to Knewton. Neither Knewton nor the Clinton campaign have confirmed the veracity of this leaked speech. Education Politics. More via Inside Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

JANUARY 19, 2018

From Liberia , “Government to crackdown on unlicensed schools,” New Vision reports. Via Techcrunch : “ Google and Coursera launch program to train more IT support specialists.” “ Google is jeopardizing A frican-American literature sites ,” says The Outline. Classrooms.” Paying taxes.

Education 44

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

Via Chalkbeat : “Secret CPS report spotlights big vacancies, lopsided options for students.” Via The Hechinger Report : “For students teetering on the edge financially, micro-grants help them finish college.” ” Via the Google blog : “ VR Labs open doors of opportunity for STEM students.”

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Education MOOC Kaplan Robotics 46

Hack Education

MAY 20, 2016

.” “ Colorado Education Commissioner Rich Crandall announced his resignation Thursday just four-and-a-half months into the job, shocking the state’s education community and roiling the state Department of Education as it embarks on a number of critical initiatives,” Chalkbeat Colorado reports.

Education 46

Education Pearson Report Company 46

Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

The Horizon Report. The organization, which was founded in 1994, was best known for its annual Horizon Report, its list of predictions about the near-future of education technology. But as the ed-tech sector is never willing to let a bad idea die, the report will live on. The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade.

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Pearson MOOC Company Software 145

Hack Education

MAY 19, 2017

Via The Washington Post : “ Betsy DeVos was asked to address education reporters at their annual convention. ” Via The Washington Post : “Secret report shows ‘special’ treatment for public officials in D.C. Via The New York Times : “How Google Took Over the Classroom.” She said no.”

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Edmodo Education Knewton Pearson 45

Hack Education

JULY 14, 2017

Via Broadly : “ Betsy DeVos to Meet with Men’s Rights Groups , Reports Say.” On the US House of Representatives’ proposed budget : “$2 Billion for Teacher Training, Salaries Eliminated in House Budget Plan,” Education Week reports. ” (State and Local) Education Politics.

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Education Pearson Report Robotics 45

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2016

According to Summit’s own reports on those piloting the Basecamp software, “student growth has been positive amongst the cohort schools thus far. AltSchool, a private school startup, was founded in 2014 by Max Ventilla, a former Google executive. average by 1.23 in math and 1.95 in reading, shown below.

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Technology Pearson Education Facebook 73

Hack Education

DECEMBER 1, 2017

” Via US News & World Report : “ DeVos Racks Up More Than a Dozen Visits to Florida Schools.” Via Education Week : “ K–12 Spending in Most States Still Far Below Pre-Recession Levels , Report Says.” ” Via The Hechinger Report : “ U.S. ” Remember: Jeb loves Betsy.

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Knewton Education Company MOOC 46

Hack Education

MAY 27, 2016

Here’s media reporter Mathew Ingram’s take (and there are lots of takes out there. He’s a partner at Founders Fund, which has invested in Knewton, AltSchool, Uversity, ResearchGate, If You Can, Upstart, Declara, and Affirm. Via The US News & World Report : “The View From a Testing Giant.”

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Education MOOC Common Core Trends 52

Hack Education

DECEMBER 18, 2017

He’s also an investor in the private school AltSchool, the education data company Clever, the adaptive textbook company Knewton, the coding bootcamp Thinkful, the student loan company SoFi, and many others. He’s an investor in the learn-to-code company Treehouse and an investor in Knewton. Who worked at Google.

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Knewton Company Kaplan Facebook 65

Hack Education

DECEMBER 22, 2016

.” “Two Wisconsin Republican legislators have threatened to withhold state funds from the University of Wisconsin at Madison in relation to a planned course on racism called The Problem of Whiteness,” Inside Higher Ed reports , hence demonstrating the problem of whiteness. The “New” For-Profit Higher Ed.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2017

.” “A new analysis from the Center for American Progress found more than two dozen minority-serving institutions would fail a graduation rate requirement for funding in the proposed House update to the Higher Education Act ,” Inside Higher Ed reports. ” Inside Higher Ed on Knewton ’s “pivot.”

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Kaplan Education Robotics E-rate 50

Hack Education

DECEMBER 15, 2016

.” “ Elon Musk and the chief executive of Uber are now advising Donald Trump ,” The Washington Post reports. Lots of folks in ed-tech seem super excited about Trump too, including Knewton’s Jose Ferreira , Jack Kent Cooke Foundation’s Harold O. .” ” The Trump administration? Not so much.

Education 40

Education Elsevier Report Company 40

Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

One of the flaws, I think, of much of the reporting on education technology is that it treats “ed-tech” as a product without a politics and without a practice. This reporting treats “ed-tech” as a product built in and by Silicon Valley, not as something built in and by public institutions around the world.

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Technology Education Facebook Company 40