eSchool News

FEBRUARY 20, 2025

ManagedMethods is the only company providing K-12-specific cybersecurity and safety for Google Workspace, Microsoft 365, and online browsing. The best way to combat that is to understand what advocacy groups are doing. This episode is sponsored by ManagedMethods. It’s 100% effect and the best way to do that.

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ExcelinEd

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

Code.org and members of the Code.org Advocacy Coalition – of which ExcelinEd is a member – have been working on improving access to high-quality computer science opportunities for all students. How and why Microsoft is encouraging women and young girls get involved with STEM and data science.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

They’ll meet you halfway,” said Uri, who is now a software engineer at Microsoft. The university also pairs Mosaic students with other UTC undergraduates who take a class about autism and advocacy. His professor later told him he would have been willing to work with him if he’d asked him to extend the deadline ahead of time. “I

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ExcelinEd

AUGUST 30, 2019

#FlashbackFriday to a day in the life of manufacturing at @Microsoft in 1984. Microsoft President @BradSmi explores this and more big tech issues in #ToolsandWeapons : [link]. — Microsoft On the Issues (@MSFTIssues) August 23, 2019. How is AI impacting the future of work?

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eSchool News

OCTOBER 18, 2022

Last October, NWEA was awarded an AI for Accessibility grant from Microsoft. Portland, OR – NWEA , a not-for-profit, research and educational services organization serving K-12 students, today announced progress it has made toward creating an accessible and equitable math assessment for middle school students with visual impairments.

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techlearning

MARCH 5, 2018

Upon completion of the course, students receive an “Advocacy Plan,” which outlines their strengths and challenges and makes recommendations to consider and is shared with their educators. POWERSCHOOL & MICROSOFT ( www.microsoft.com ) & ( www.powerschool.com ) Microsoft Corp.

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techlearning

JUNE 21, 2018

Coalition members include Microsoft, Amazon, Computer Science Teachers Association, College Board, and Excellence in Education Foundation, and other local tech and education organizations. ClassPad.net helps kids brush up on their math skills all year-round by offering digital scratch paper students can use to help them solve problems.

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The Hechinger Report

APRIL 22, 2020

Many teachers use “synchronous” classes, where they and students meet simultaneously on platforms like Google Hangouts or Microsoft Teams. of the Aurora Institute, formerly known as iNACOL, an advocacy organization promoting competency-based education. Some also record those lessons for students who can’t meet at the appointed hour.

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techlearning

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools. The video is part of Impero’s work to support schools in keeping students safe online and promoting good digital citizenship.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

Jahliel Thurman (Vice President of Uplift Entertainment) and Shalon Bell (Director of Strategic Alliances at the Atlanta Voice)—will discuss how despite limited monetary capital, these institutions continue to boost students’ potential in graduate education, entrepreneurship and advocacy through human capital. 2:00 p.m.

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RafranzDavis.com

JULY 10, 2016

It would be years before I found “my voice” again in my teaching and advocacy. Microsoft needed to hear that their collaboration tools sucked in order to begin to work out why. It was as if the life was sucked from my body in one 3 inch metal ring swoop.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

As budgets get cut, special education advocacy must be paramount. This work drove the importance of advocacy for education programs for all children. She’s a Buncee Ambassador, Nearpod PioNear, Microsoft Innovative Educator Expert and Google Certified Educator Levels I and II.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 22, 2017

MacArthur Foundation, LRNG, Vidyo, Twitter, Microsoft, and the governments of the United Arab Emirates, Morocco, and Algeria. This is a free, live video event with Sean Maguire of Plan International, a global advocacy organization dedicated to children's rights. Department of State, the Bezos Family Foundation, the John D.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Although no doubt, Microsoft, now the owner of Minecraft, would like us all to repeat that particular storyline.) That this is how a venture capitalist would characterize the future of education is, nonetheless, quite notable.

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The Hechinger Report

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

secretary of labor and president of the advocacy group WorkingNation. Jane Oates, president, WorkingNation. The story in Maine echoes all over the country, but Maine is a great place to tell it,” said Jane Oates, a former assistant U.S. You used to be able to walk into a paper manufacturing plant and you had a job.

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Edsurge

MAY 2, 2022

Former teacher Emily McMahan Teachers Are Not OK For months, advocacy groups, including the National Education Association, the country’s largest union, have been driving home the point that teachers are not OK. When she left, she took a job as a consultant for Microsoft, speaking to schools and training staff.

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The Hechinger Report

JULY 10, 2020

said Steve Yadzinski, who works on innovations in workforce technology for Jobs for the Future — an advocacy group that makes its own job finalists take on work-related projects as a part of the decision process. “With employers fielding a lot more applicants, how do we help create equitable processes for people at the top of the funnel?”

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NeverEndingSearch

DECEMBER 20, 2017

You may remember Stanford History Education Group (SHEG) for its groundbreaking and utterly depressing report, Evaluating Information: The Cornerstone of Online Civic Reasoning. In the November 2016 Executive Summary , the researchers shared: When thousands of students respond to dozens of tasks there are endless variations.

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Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 23, 2023

The potential partnership between OpenAI (the makers of ChatGPT) and Microsoft may even present the first substantive challenge to Google’s search monopoly we’ve ever seen – and that’s saying something. While it was based on a public domain work, it was transformed sufficiently to deserve its own copyright protection.)

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice.

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Doug Levin

AUGUST 28, 2017

Yet, from my vantage point in the education policy arena (in leadership roles, for instance, at the National Association of State Boards of Education and the State Educational Technology Directors Association), the book and prediction drove widespread advocacy for changes in policy and practice.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 23, 2015

Pat will share his 30-plus years of fieldwork, advocacy (he published Growing Without Schooling magazine from 1986 to 2001), and personal experience (he and his wife homeschooled their three daughters) to help you and your children learn in their own ways. Details to join the webinar at [link]. You can follow us on Twitter at #liveclass20.

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Hack Education

APRIL 13, 2018

“ Apple and Microsoft Now Offer $100 Styluses. ” Via Edsurge : “Transcription and Accessibility – New Partnerships from Microsoft and Amazon.” “Over 20 advocacy groups complain to FTC that YouTube is violating children’s privacy law ,” Techcrunch reports. ” asks Edsurge.

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Hack Education

JUNE 17, 2016

Via The Hechinger Report : “ Virtual charter schools need ‘bold action’ for change, says national charter school advocacy group.” Microsoft announced it would make its largest acquisition ever, buying LinkedIn for $26.2 .” Online Education (The Once and Future “MOOC”).

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 17, 2021

workforce, there is an opportunity to put on our thinking caps to see how we can reach the most people and really make smart investments,” said Filipiak, whose policy advocacy organization’s membership includes Amazon, Apple, Google and Microsoft. “When you’re looking at the U.S.

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Hack Education

JULY 13, 2018

“ Microsoft Hopes to Revive Its Education Tablet Efforts With the New $399 Surface Go,” says Edsurge. ” (This is a good example of how ed-tech advocacy-posing-as-journalism operates – you get funded by an organization and then you get to “break the news” about that organization.

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Hack Education

APRIL 3, 2017

It ignores what happens in Seattle: the home of Amazon, Microsoft, and the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation. An advocacy for libertarian politics – think Peter Thiel (a Stanford graduate) now advising Donald Trump. It ignores what happens in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for example: the site of Harvard and MIT. ”). .”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

In 2011, Barber went to work for Pearson as its Chief Education Advisor, continuing his advocacy for competition, data collection, measurements, and standards-based reforms. See David Kernohan’s excellent keynote at OpenEd13 for more.) Apple sneers about this. It isn’t just that games-based education has had to reckon with Gamergate. (Or

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Hack Education

JUNE 10, 2016

Microsoft has released an early access version of its Minecraft : Education Edition. ” In other Microsoft/Minecraft news , the company will donate $10,000 to the Marietta Center for Advanced Academics to build a Minecraft Lab at a local school. .” ” Upgrades and Downgrades. public schools.”

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Hack Education

JULY 28, 2017

Via Techcrunch : “ Microsoft’s Imagine Cup crowns its 15th winner, the X.GLU smart glucose meter for kids.” It’s building this little web that turns the user into a mostly passive consumer of mostly western corporate content,” says Ellery Biddle, Global Voices’ advocacy director. Contests and Awards.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

” The Gates Foundation is perhaps the best known organization for furthering political advocacy through its funding mechanisms. “Apple, Microsoft, Amazon and Google Are Fighting a War for the Classroom,” Edutechnica wrote in June , with a look at how many colleges have adopted their competing “pseudo-LMSes.”

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 2, 2018

Via Politico : “ Families for Excellent Schools CEO fired after investigation into ‘inappropriate behavior’ ” That’s Jeremiah Kittredge , who’s run one of the best funded pro-charter advocacy groups in the company. The company sold MinecraftEDU to Microsoft in 2016. The Business of Job Training.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 1, 2025

— Ken Cook, Director of School Safety & Advocacy, Allegion In 2025, advancements in mass communication and interoperability will continue to be pivotal in strengthening school safety and emergency response. This evolution will make high-quality STEM education more universally accessible.

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Hack Education

NOVEMBER 17, 2016

” “ Microsoft joins the Linux Foundation ,” Techcrunch reports. Via Inside Higher Ed : “The American Civil Liberties Union this week declared its opposition to a federal database of student-level outcomes in a letter signed by a handful of education advocacy groups.” ” Smart glasses.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Microsoft and Apple are two. Since 1970, DeVos family members have invested at least $200 million in a host of right-wing causes – think tanks, media outlets, political committees, evangelical outfits, and a string of advocacy groups. …There are companies that are firmly planted in the computing sector.

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Hack Education

OCTOBER 28, 2016

” Via the Education Law Center : “Several New Jersey civil rights and parent advocacy organizations have filed a legal challenge to new high school graduation regulations recently adopted by the State Board of Education. Microsoft is doing a desktop PC thing. And Google has put plans to expand Fiber to more cities on hold.

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