eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In the midst of protests across the country driven by the death of unarmed Black Americans George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and countless others, K12 Inc. At K12, we support eliminating racism, prejudice, and violence in all forms and against all groups,” said K12 CEO Nate Davis. “As Department of Education.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 18, 2020

And K12 Inc., K12 Inc plans on increasing how much it spends on digital advertising, including Facebook ads. Between 2017 and 2019, K12 spent on average $37.4 K12 has denied all wrongdoing. Connections Academy, the virtual school run by Pearson, saw “strong increases in application volumes” in March. has a rosier outlook.

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Teacher Reboot Camp

OCTOBER 5, 2017

Signal to Noise is a festival Jon Samuelson ‘s district hosts each year to recognize outstanding K12 student video productions, such as documentaries, animations, comedies, dramas, newscasts, music videos, and PSAs (Public Service Announcements). Examples of Learners Creating and Problem Solving With Technology .

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eSchool News

AUGUST 3, 2023

About CAE As a nonprofit whose mission is to help improve the academic and career outcomes of secondary and higher education students, CAE is the leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills and within subject areas.

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Edsurge

APRIL 1, 2019

AIM is developed by Glimpse K12 , a startup that wants to help school districts manage their spending more efficiently, and align investments and purchases with returns on student outcomes. For school leaders, Bundle offers “a real opportunity to stretch dollars to solve more problems,” Glimpse K12’s co-founder and CEO Adam Pearson said.

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eSchool News

MARCH 5, 2021

the nation’s leading provider of online and blended education, have entered into a new agreement that will allow online teachers at Stride K12-powered schools, and even school districts to evaluate online teacher performance, competencies, and domains in real-time. NYSE: LRN) – formerly K12 Inc. – About Stride, Inc. At Stride, Inc.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

To achieve scale, forward-thinking platform companies likely will need to partner with colleges, universities and K12 schools to embed the acquisition of platform-centric skills within traditional programs and degrees. And Google recently announced plans to donate $1 billion to nonprofits explicitly to train tech workers.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2022

Before that, Roe led the school marketing team at Learning Ally, a nonprofit that offers solutions for students with dyslexia, and Catapult Learning, a leading provider of instructional services. Fairlamb has a 24-year history of leading sales and marketing functions for SaaS business in the K-12 educational technology market.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 28, 2022

Inspired by the catalytic work of Aspen’s K12 Climate Action commission, the task force will hold a series of listening sessions with content-area experts and people who have already experienced major climate change effects. Laura Schifter is a senior fellow leading K12 Climate Action at the Aspen Institute.

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 6, 2020

Waldron joined Curriculum Associates in 2008, bringing leadership experience from both the for-profit and nonprofit education worlds. He runs the company with a long-term focus, upholding the founding mission to improve classrooms everywhere. Rob also served as an operating executive at private equity firm Berkshire Partners.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 22, 2023

About CAE As a nonprofit whose mission is to help improve the academic and career outcomes of secondary and higher education students, CAE is the leader in designing innovative performance tasks for measurement and instruction of higher order skills and within subject areas. To learn more about CAE, please visit cae.org.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 27, 2020

Similarly, in the 2019 State of K-12 Customer Experience Report from K12 Insight , researchers found that building trust is the most important foundation for a successful community relationship. This edWeb broadcast was sponsored by K12 Insight. Corey Murray is responsible for marketing strategy and content creation at K12 Insight.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2020

Virtual school operator K12 led the round. Earlier this year, K12 acquired its own coding bootcamp, Galvanize. It’s a 14-year-old nonprofit that serves about 70,000 students in Kansas and Missouri, 84 percent of whom are on free or reduced lunch and 79 percent of whom are students of color.

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techlearning

NOVEMBER 13, 2018

HundrED, a Finnish education nonprofit, announced its Global Collection 2019, the 2nd annual list of 100 inspiring K12 education innovations taking place around the world and representing 36 countries. 

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2022

Cyberattacks on schools are on the rise, according to the latest available report from the K-12 Security Information Exchange, a national nonprofit focused on cybersecurity and K-12 schools. In October 2021, the K12 Cybersecurity Improvement Act became law. public schools in that time.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Education innovations are siloed and practiced in isolated classrooms; that’s why my latest project, HundrED , is a nonprofit that’s on a mission to change this by seeking and sharing some of the world’s most inspiring K12 innovations and packaging them online for educators to easily implement for free.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 20, 2023

This story about AI in K-12 classrooms was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. This week, I spoke with experts and educators in K-12 to see what they think about these new tools. AI doesn’t replace people,” Kusum said.

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EdTechTeam

MARCH 15, 2018

In November 2017 EdTechTeam spun off the new Student Voice Foundation as a California Nonprofit and launched the Global Student Voice Film Festival (similar to handing off Future Ready Schools to the nonprofit Alliance for Excellent Education in 2014).

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 18, 2023

Student board members are working alongside groups like Schools for Climate Action (which just held a lobby day in Washington that Rajbhandari attended), Generation 180, Undaunted K12 and the Green Schools National Network. Ceniceros is a champion of LGBTQ rights and mental health as well as clean energy and electric school buses.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2018

Kurshan, a Senior Fellow and Innovation Advisor at the University of Pennsylvania’s Graduate School of Education, has spent decades building edtech enterprises—both for-profit and nonprofit ones. About 70 percent of them developed for-profit (or part for-profit and part nonprofit) business plans; the other 30 percent were nonprofits.

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MIND Research Institute

JULY 16, 2019

We are a nonprofit, social impact organization, after all. At MIND, where our core values revolve around people, problem-solving and learning, we take the development of capacity building partnerships very seriously. Are we looking for financial support? But in addition to the financial support that has helped us reach over 1.2

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edWeb.net

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In a recent edWeb edLeader Panel sponsored by Project Tomorrow , Dr. Julie Evans, CEO of Project Tomorrow, and Christina Fleming, Vice President of Blackboard K12, presented the Speak Up 2019-2020 National Findings titled Digital Learning During the Pandemic: Emerging Evidence of an Education Transformation. Join the Community.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

formerly K12 Inc., We believe the effects of Covid-19 will be a lasting tailwind to online education and especially to K12’s business model,” Timothy Medina, chief financial officer of Stride, told investors on a call the following month. Stride Inc., Today the company serves 157,000 in 30 states. Sign up for the Hechinger newsletter.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Stuart Udell has overseen nearly two dozen mergers and acquisitions across his career in the education industry, which spans stints at Penn Foster, Catapult Learning and K12 Inc. Now, just a few months into his current role as CEO at Achieve3000, Udell is already adding another company to the list.

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

The firm traces its roots to 2012, when Jennifer Carolan and Wayee Chu (now both general partners at Reach), started a $12 million “Seed Fund” at NewSchools Venture Fund, an Oakland-based education nonprofit philanthropy. Schoolmint (Hero K12). When Carolan’s team started Reach Capital in 2015, it raised $53 million for its first fund.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 29, 2017

The group created more than a dozen working groups that wrote papers and surveyed the field on issues that included: The role of research in K12 district decision making; The goals and roles of federal funding for edtech research; Crowdsourcing efficacy research and product reviews. Throughout this blog series, short videos from the U.S.

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Marketplace K-12

FEBRUARY 15, 2016

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif.-based

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Edsurge

APRIL 29, 2020

News & World Report’s school rankings or nonprofit GreatSchools’ directory. Clients include Harvard Westlake School, Boston University and online schools operator K12 Inc. Some schools have invested in virtual tours to give students and parents a peek, but families may also fall back on old-fashioned online reviews.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2017

Back in 2012 , educator Brian Greenberg and philanthropist John Fisher, started the nonprofit with $12 million, and a big goal of funding 25 schools devoted to personalized learning throughout the San Francisco Bay area. David Kelley, founder of IDEO and Susie Wise, director of the K12 Lab Network, talked about the power of empathy. "It

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Digital Promise

DECEMBER 13, 2018

ADVANCE , housed at the community college, now serves as South Lake Tahoe’s consortium lead and collaborates with the community college, the K12 education system, other state- and federally-funded providers, nonprofit and faith-based providers, and employers to take a holistic approach to serving low-skill adults in the community.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2016

But today, San Francisco-based nonprofit Common Sense Education has launched what it hopes will provide some insights and resources for educators in these predicaments. K12 Edtech Privacy Evaluation Platform. We wanted to map paragraphs of terms to one or more of these principles,” he says.

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edWeb.net

OCTOBER 15, 2020

With a 25+ career in education, Arati has used her curriculum design skills to create unique learning experiences in education and nonprofit sectors at Pearson, EdSurge and Silicon Valley Education Foundation. A nationally recognized expert in K12 finance, Dr. Trautenberg is the founder and CEO of AlignK12. Arati has an M.Ed.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

You’ve also helped start a number of education nonprofits. This week’s podcast is brought to you by Destinations Career Academy, powered by K12. Your latest book is out about one of your most well-known nonprofit education efforts. Or read the partial transcript, which has been lightly edited for clarity.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2023

Credit: Kavitha Cardoza for The Hechinger Report In two and a half years, the teacher training program, run by nonprofit Reach University, has grown from 50 applicants to about 1,000, with most coming from rural areas of Louisiana, Arkansas, Alabama and California. The “apprenticeship degree” model costs students $75 dollars a month.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 6, 2018

based education company that is part of a nonprofit consortium in the state. They can also turn to organizations like K12.com At the more extreme end of the spectrum, some high school students enroll in virtual schools for all or some classes, which may be run by states, nonprofits, universities, or private companies.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 3, 2019

This story about online teaching was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education. Sheri McKeever is a teacher at Insight School of Minnesota , an online public school powered by K12, Inc. Sign up for our newsletter.

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Edsurge

APRIL 20, 2018

EdSurge sat down with Duckworth this week just after her keynote at the ASU+GSV Summit in San Diego, to talk about her work and what’s next for the nonprofit she created to translate her research into advice for teachers. I have a nonprofit called CharacterLab.org. The conversation has been edited and condensed for clarity.

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