ED Surge

DECEMBER 21, 2021

To start off, it’s worth thinking back to 2016. Education policy leaders at the federal level and beyond were exploring the growing role of competency-based education and non-traditional providers —and calls were growing for stronger connections between universities and the world of employment.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

The plan was first released to fulfill the Improving America’s Schools Act of 1994 and last revised in 2016. January’s update was published alongside guidance concerning the use of technology for helping students with disabilities. These reports, some observers believe, mark a thoughtful step toward ensuring digital equity.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

A growing body of evidence stresses the need for the research community, educators, and education technology developers to work together to implement new learner models to better differentiate instruction and support students based on their unique learning needs.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 3, 2020

Neil Heffernan, a professor at Worcester Polytechnic Institute in Massachusetts, came up with the idea in 2016 after a Maine middle school math teacher, Chris LeSiege, uploaded hundreds of hints he had written for solving textbook problems to Heffernan’s free online homework help website, ASSISTments.

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ED Surge

MARCH 25, 2024

In the realm of education, it means breaking down barriers so that educational technologies and data systems can collaborate effectively, ultimately enhancing the educational experience for leaders, staff, specialists, teachers, students and parents. million students in over 880 LEAs.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

In theory, education technology could redesign school from a factory-like assembly line to an individualized experience. After Neil built the platform in 2003, several early studies showed promising results , and then a large randomized control trial (RCT) in Maine, published in 2016, confirmed them.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 26, 2018

Many parents, however, experience educational, technological and language barriers to accessing and understanding data, limiting their ability to make informed decisions about their children. percent of households don’t have internet subscriptions, according to the 2016 American Community Survey conducted by the U.S.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Researchers from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill analyzed students’ performance following Hurricanes Matthew and Florence, which hit the state in 2016 and 2018 respectively. Students can academically bounce back after a natural disaster, but it’s not a guarantee.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 17, 2017

Since 2013, state legislatures have considered about 400 student data privacy bills, and passed more than 70 into law, according to Data Quality Campaign, a nonprofit that tracks education data policy and use. Bill Fitzgerald, director of the privacy initiative, Common Sense Education.

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Digital Promise

AUGUST 9, 2016

With more and more educational technology tools on the market, schools and universities , the government , and parents all want to know, Which products are effective for which teachers and students? Deadline to apply is September 30, 2016 at midnight PDT. Review the FAQs , and contact us with additional questions.

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Digital Promise

JUNE 19, 2019

In 2016, Facebook reached out to Grand Circus with a big goal of providing digital literacy training for 3,000 Michiganders in two years. What do you find exciting about working at the intersection of adult learning and education technology (e.g., We immediately jumped on board! We love big goals!

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Thanks to the generous support of the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, Digital Promise and RCSD’s McKinley Institute of Technology (MIT) have been working on a one-to-one Literacy Initiative to support powerful use of technology for learning and address the second level digital divide. About the Literacy Initiative.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2022

This was achieved in Austin, Texas, after the city created its Equity Office in 2016. This piece about community schools was produced by The Hechinger Report , a nonprofit, independent news organization focused on inequality and innovation in education.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Each of the satellites will offer more than one terabyte per second of total network output, a thousand times the capacity of the company's first generation satellites, which the company says will allow educators and students across the country to connect “significantly” better.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

On September 21-23, 2016, Digital Promise and the U.S. Department of Education hosted the 2016 Education Innovation Clusters Convening (#EdClusters16) in Providence, R.I., Sean Duffy (@dearmrduffy) September 23, 2016. rdaley0001 (@rdaley98) September 22, 2016. Joseph South (@southjoseph) September 22, 2016.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

These descriptions of education technology research may comfort educators and parents looking for ways to mitigate the devastating effects of lost learning time because of the coronavirus. But they are all misleading. No other digital intervention program compares.”. An independent evaluator disagrees.

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ED Surge

APRIL 12, 2022

In many ways, I feel like we went from being a voice in the wilderness to an answer to a prayer, particularly after the 2016 election,” he adds. A number of major events in recent years, including the 2016 presidential election in the U.S., 6, 2021, chief among them.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

In a study conducted at Carnegie Mellon University in 2016, researchers monitored the brain activity of study participants as they confronted complex math problems that demanded creative mathematical reasoning.

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ED Surge

JUNE 24, 2022

The Big Idea Purdue University became the first major public college to offer income-share agreements in 2016 and touts the program on its website as an “an innovative new way to help make school more affordable.” It set out to compete with private loans and federal Parent PLUS loans.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 25, 2021

A seminal 2016 study sorted through almost 200 well-designed experiments on improving education, from expanding preschool to reducing class size, and found that frequent one-to-one tutoring was especially effective in increasing learning rates for low-performing students. Here’s a rundown of the most relevant research.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. In addition, NSNO started a personalized learning fellowship in the 2016-17 school year, giving teachers $2,000 apiece to start pilots in their own classrooms. DeVonté Trask, 11.

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ED Surge

MARCH 27, 2023

Code Next was launched by Google in 2016 in response to the stubbornly low numbers of people of color working in tech — only 3 percent of Google’s tech employees were Black or Latino back in 2014. The 2016 Ghost Ship fire that claimed 36 lives occurred a few blocks from the Code Next lab.

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ED Surge

JULY 11, 2024

Department of Education recently started reevaluating financial aid regulations from 2016 that effectively allow colleges to automatically bill students for books and supplies as long as those materials meet criteria that include being sold at below competitive market rates.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 19, 2017

While the presence of technology does not necessarily ensure learning equity and accessibility, the authors of the Department of Education’s 2016 National Education Technology Plan concluded that technology nevertheless “has the power to lower barriers to both in ways previously impossible.”.

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ED Surge

MARCH 14, 2022

Ultimately, Ferreira stepped down in 2016 , but Knewton didn’t last for long on its own, acquired by Wiley in late 2019. Machine learning was not where it is today so it was a significantly more manual process to deal with,” he explains. “It

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 5, 2022

For example: Baltimore County Public Schools created the position of director of innovation and digital safety, its closest equivalent, around 2016. Unlike mythical unicorns, though, some of these school privacy officers actually exist.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 26, 2018

Miller is one of many vocal critics of the wide disparities in education technology pricing, which he and others contend is becoming an increasingly pressing problem as more devices and software enter U.S. By comparison, in February 2016, Lawrence School District in Kansas got a discount of nearly 24 percent that dropped a $4.1

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Celina Pierrottet remembers 2016 as the year when she and her colleagues at the middle school where they taught noted a pointed change among their students. “We We were just like, ‘Is it just me, or are kids really nervous?’” Pierrottet recalls.

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Edthena

APRIL 6, 2016

The State Education Technology Director’s Association recently hosted their “What’s New and Noteworthy” webinar, and Edthena was one of the featured technologies. SETDA’s “What’s New and Noteworthy” took place on February 11, 2016. Vrain Valley School District profile.

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ED Surge

MARCH 6, 2024

A traditional four-year degree isn’t a financially feasible path to teaching for some, Lopez adds, while the state’s history of focusing on English-only education has shrunk the pool of Callifornians who are proficient in Spanish. Mandatory English immersion wasn’t repealed in California until 2016.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 4, 2022

Photo credit: Monica French, 2016) At the height of quarantine, I found myself flashing back to Ms. Danny LaBrecque communicates through play at The Nature Preschool at Irvine Nature Center in Owings Mills, Md. The child is helping the sock sibling puppets resolve a conflict based on his own experiences as a big brother.

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ED Surge

DECEMBER 8, 2023

A 2016 study of nearly 500 teachers across the country found that less than half had taken a college class focused on teaching writing, while fewer than a third had received training on specifically teaching children how to write.

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ED Surge

JULY 1, 2024

In 2016, Wood and other Black mothers were looking for a place to voice their rage and sadness over police killings, including of Michael Brown and Freddie Gray. These families are perhaps drawn to alternative schooling for different reasons than conservative, white families , she adds.

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ED Surge

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

In 2016, about half of students with treatable mental health disorders did not receive adequate treatment, according to Child Mind’s 2021 Children’s Mental Health Report. But accessing mental health care remains a challenge for many.

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Digital Promise

MARCH 13, 2017

The team’s primary goal was to develop a shared vision for deeper learning through innovative uses of digital technologies. In January 2016, the team collectively took a district self-assessment to gauge BWRSD’s digital learning readiness. (You can view our evolving implementation timeline here.) Scaling Innovation.

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 7, 2019

He explored teacher studies and dabbled in designing educational technology. In 2016, Resnick, Duffy and members of their team began working with seventh and eighth graders at Somerville’s Arthur D. Since 2016 Powderhouse Studios educators have led a pilot at Somerville’s Arthur D. in a splashy competition.

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Digital Promise

MAY 18, 2017

An early stage education technology company, Cignition, is attempting to break that trend through a summer program that keeps students engaged in mathematics through their online virtual world Fog Stone Isle. American Education, 185-188. [2] 2] [link] (by Leah Shafer, June 24, 2016). [3] References. [1] 1] White, W.

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