Digital Promise

MARCH 15, 2017

SXSWedu is one of the country’s largest educational technology conferences and, as most of these conferences go, has tended to focus more on the K-12 segment than on adults who are in need of foundational skills to help them advance in the workforce. Second, there were several sessions about the skills gap and ways to address that gap.

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ED Surge

JULY 7, 2023

language education was published in 2017, with data from less than half of the country’s K-12 schools. While our understanding of language education is incomplete, we know that most K-12 students in American public schools do not have the opportunity to study an additional language to proficiency.

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ED Surge

JANUARY 9, 2024

The initiative hinges on the idea that guaranteed income will improve caregivers’ economic stability and, in turn, allow them and the families they serve to thrive. That’s the question driving the Thriving Providers Project, a pilot launched in Colorado and expanding to cities across the U.S.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 28, 2019

But the future of educational technology here is starting to emerge from a pixelated past. Jacob Phillips, Nome Public Schools’ director of technology, stands at the site on the edge of town where Quintillion’s new fiber-optic cable is buried. Phase one was completed in 2017 and cost a reported $250 million.

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ED Surge

MAY 5, 2023

According to a report published in 2017 by the Economic Policy Institute, large urban districts spend approximately $20,000 on every new hire. Loss of Funding Persistently high turnover rates also come with a significant financial cost for school districts.

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ED Surge

APRIL 8, 2022

Teachers who wind up rated “ineffective” are almost always fired, according to a city-commissioned study , which looked at data from 2017-2019. But expert groups, including the Economic Policy Institute, have warned against putting too much weight on test scores when evaluating teachers.

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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. Related: Choosing personalized learning as a strategy for educational equity. Around three-quarters of the schools in the 2017 RAND study were charter schools.

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ED Surge

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

For the 2017-18 academic season, for example, 71 percent of Common App users who did not submit an application through the platform still attended college within the next academic year, according to the analysis. This underscores the fact that people who access the Common App at all have a high baseline enrollment rate.

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Digital Promise

OCTOBER 12, 2016

Rhode Island also emphasized the importance of involving state government in their efforts (the Rhode Island Office of Innovation, led by former Office of Educational Technology Director Richard Culatta, has been a key partner in EduvateRI). Karen Stephenson on trust-based social network analysis.

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The Hechinger Report

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

While attention is often paid to for-profit universities and colleges whose students sometimes end up with worthless degrees or no degrees at all, this other kind of profit-driven business has more quietly inserted itself into higher education.

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ED Surge

MAY 2, 2022

During the pandemic the public teaching workforce appears to have shrunk by nearly 7 percent, according to federal jobs data crunched by the Economic Policy Institute. In place of pricey one-on-one coaching, Gomez offers online courses to help educators refine their resumes and skill sets for other fields. Others want a fresh start.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

“For Republicans, there is not a lot of juice to be gained in really diving into child care in the way they have some success on the education question.” It’s an economic issue. Advocates see that as a missed opportunity: Data is clear that the investment in child care would support both the current and future workforce.

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ED Surge

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

That experience indicates why leaders of education technology companies and investment firms are starting to see opportunity in expanding their reach into children’s earliest moments of life. Worse, four in five of these maternal deaths —based on a review of those between 2017 and 2019—were preventable.

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