The Hechinger Report

MAY 20, 2020

Examples from The Hechinger Report’s collection of misleading research claims touted by ed tech companies. All three of these companies try to hook prospective users with claims on their websites about their products’ effectiveness. Some companies are trying to gain a foothold in a crowded market. Video: Sarah Butrymowicz.

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Company Pearson E-rate Software 145

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 30, 2020

She has been a presenter at ISTE 2019, NCCE 2016-19, the Southern Oregon EdTech Summit 2015-18, and IntegratED 2017-18. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Elementary Adobe Classroom Gamification 296

The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 11, 2018

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product.

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Strategy Twitter Company Classroom 305

The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 31, 2022

2015, September 2015). The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. May 20, 2016. June 21, 2015.

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Khan Academy Secondary Conference Twitter 384

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Solar PANELS on Science in Comics + Lexington Comic Con 2015 with Bob Hall and Kody Chamberlain + D.C.’s The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. link] Disclosure of Material Connection: This is a “sponsored podcast episode.”

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Guidelines STEM Company Twitter 167

Edsurge

DECEMBER 28, 2016

Top ten films of 2016. And throughout the 2016 year alone, we’ve showcased over 300 edtech tools in our S’Cool Tools section. Certain tools get more clicks than others, and as we close this year, we felt it pertinent to bring you the most popular S’Cool Tools of 2016. Top ten books on the New York Times bestseller list.

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Tools Smartphone Data EdTech 106

Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

But it has been actively expanding its portfolio, purchasing nearly a dozen edtech companies over the past five years. based company claims it serves more than 45 million students in more than 80 countries. Both companies are currently owned by private equity firm Vista Equity Partners. Across these products, the Folsom, Calif.-based

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Schoology Company Strategy System 159

Edsurge

DECEMBER 21, 2016

Part Two: The Funding Figuring out how to fund the development of education technology continued to be complex: Investors in US edtech startups hit a high-water mark in 2015 with US companies raising $1.45 In 2016, that edtech figure looks like it will be closer to $1.03B.

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EdTech Report Trends Broadband 60

Edsurge

JUNE 30, 2016

China-based edtech companies raked in more than $1 billion in investment in 2015, or 37 percent of global funding for the year. At Coursera, we’ve seen registered users in China climb by more than 500 percent between 2013 and 2016, crossing the one million mark in 2015. tech firms, including edtech players. The hurdles?

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Company Coursera EdTech E-rate 81

Marketplace K-12

JUNE 24, 2016

The annual conference hosted by the International Society for Technology in Education, which kicks off Sunday in Denver , is a gargantuan summit that draws educators and K-12 companies from across the United States, and the world. 500 companies represented, from. 2015 estimates. ISTE: By the Numbers. 16,000 attendees and.

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Social Media Company Conference Trends 75

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Union mentor and Union Learning Representative, and in 2015, a member of the American Federation of Teachers, Teacher Leaders program. Kyriakakos was 2016/17 Baltimore City Teacher of the Year, the 2017 Maryland State Teacher of the Year and one of Four National Finalist for the TOY title.

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Company Twitter Classroom Google 258

Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2017

-based education company announced it will be acquired by Thoma Bravo , a major private equity firm with offices in San Francisco and Chicago. Terms of the deal were not disclosed, but Frontline CEO Tim Clifford tells EdSurge in an interview that “the company is valued in the unicorn range, well north of a billion dollars.”

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Software Company Education Groups 117

Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

Over the last few months, biotech company Theranos has re-entered the conversation due to a slew of newsworthy happenings—the Elizabeth Holmes trial finally came to an end with four of 11 charges of fraud, and Hulu announced The Dropout’s debut while Apple Original Films’s Bad Blood is currently in production. Money came flowing.

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Knewton Education Kaplan Company 218

The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 28, 2018

Union mentor and Union Learning Representative, and in 2015, a member of the American Federation of Teachers, Teacher Leaders program. Kyriakakos was 2016/17 Baltimore City Teacher of the Year, the 2017 Maryland State Teacher of the Year and one of Four National Finalist for the TOY title.

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Company Twitter Google Classroom 244

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 6, 2016

Bloomz was one of my sponsors for ISTE 2016 this year, and I appreciate their support. Recent awards: Bloomz won the 2016 Edtech Digest Cool Tool Award for best new product or service. They also won the American Association of School Librarian’s Award for Best Websites for Teaching and Learning: Social Media 2016.

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Social Media Microsoft Company Twitter 195

Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 28, 2016

billion in the first three quarters of 2015 to $4.3 billion in 2016, according to research by the investment bank Berkery Noyes. ( In 2015 there were 323 education industry transactions for the first three quarters of the year, compared to 295 this year. See also: Education Industry Mergers Jumped Significantly in 2016.

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Industry Education Analysis Company 40

Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

The industry has since consolidated, due in part to an uptick in mergers and acquisitions by education companies and private equity firms. Source: Berkery Notes data from 2015 , 2017 and 2018. So what is it like—and what does it take—to sell a company? The company raised an early seed round but could not raise a Series A.

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Company EdTech Industry Data 91

Edsurge

DECEMBER 13, 2019

On the other hand, there is a paucity of coverage about edtech companies that grow their businesses with little or no venture capital or outside investment. Bootstrapped companies rarely have “unicorn” potential and most aren’t nearly as sexy as their venture-backed counterparts. In a way, it makes sense. Below is our story.

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EdTech Sony Company Course 98

Edsurge

OCTOBER 24, 2019

The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Schoology would be PowerSchool’s second purchase of a learning management system (LMS), after it acquired Haiku Learning in 2016. Given their respective footprints in the U.S.

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Schoology LMS Moodle Haiku Learning 93

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2017

So states a recent Wall Street Journal report on the tens of billions of dollars that Chinese companies have poured on U.S. The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. billion in 2016, according to Goldman Sachs. Authess $2.2

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EdTech Knewton Company Robotics 101

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. Part of the new fund will also be used for what Palmer calls “recapitalization,” a scenario that companies want to avoid. A fourth deal is expected to close sometime this month.

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EdTech Kaplan lynda.com Company 142

Edsurge

AUGUST 23, 2016

The next logical question is, are those entrepreneurs’ companies any better, in terms of diversity? A few edtech companies are now using resources to document—and potentially address—disparities in their ranks. Edtech companies aren’t the only ones creating inclusion surveys. Source: Clever Blog The results?

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Company EdTech Survey Guidelines 60

Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. The private equity firm purchased PowerSchool from Pearson for $350 million in 2015, and has since spent hundreds of millions more on acquisitions.

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Schoology Data Haiku Learning Pearson 154

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

It raised an additional $30 million in 2016 at a $1 billion valuation—thus earning the “unicorn” label. The company has raised more than $200 million in venture capital from investors including Insight Venture Partners and ICONIQ Capital. The company claims its most popular teachers can make millions of dollars through this model.

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EdTech Industry Company Software 114

Marketplace K-12

SEPTEMBER 14, 2016

The total volume of PC sales in that market fell by 12 percent in the first half of 2016, compared to the same period in 2015, despite solid numbers in the U.S. According to Futuresource, volumes in the first half of 2016 increased to 6.4 percent of units sold in the second quarter of 2016, up from 6.3 percent in 2014.

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E-rate Chromebook Microsoft Tablets 40

Edsurge

JANUARY 30, 2019

As technology companies from Google to Salesforce plant roots in Australia, government and business leaders down under are trying to figure out ways to train students and workers to keep up with a changing workforce. company thinks it can help prepare the country’s future programmers. In the U.S.,

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Training Broadband Company Education 125

The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

In 2015, a national survey organization ranked Albemarle County Public Schools in the top five of all school divisions in Virginia and among the top two percent of all school divisions in the county. In 2016, Dr. Moran was selected to serve on the Aspen Institute’s National Commission on Social, Emotional and Academic Development.

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Dropout Company Twitter Maker Movement 266

Ask a Tech Teacher

MARCH 3, 2019

People have noticed that there has been a slump in sales for Barnes and Noble, and the company has closed many locations. Additionally, the popular entertainment store Hasting’s was bought and liquidated in 2016 after failing to gain investors during their bankruptcy protection period. So, what’s going on?

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eBook Digital Citizenship Industry Company 201

Edsurge

AUGUST 5, 2019

Moscow internet services company Yandex participated. Founded in 2015, MEL Science has raised a total of $12 million to date. After that, the company charges $34.90 Those lessons mostly cover chemistry today, but the company is building more content for physics and biology students, Philippov says.

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STEM Company Software Report 147

Edsurge

JUNE 6, 2019

Founded in 2015, ReUp claims it has since brought 8,000 students back to more than 30 colleges it currently works with. The company works with universities to identify students who have dropped out, communicating on average about 50 times with a student before he or she re-enrolls. The company is paid each semester the students attend.

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Dropout Education Social Media Company 134

Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Now, just a few months into his current role as CEO at Achieve3000, Udell is already adding another company to the list. The company offers reading materials that are rewritten at 12 different levels in English (and eight levels in Spanish), so that students can all engage in the same content regardless of their reading skills.

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Learning Company Differentiated Instruction Industry 132

Edsurge

APRIL 2, 2018

What do the edtech funding trends of the past two years, namely 2016 and 2017 , mean for passive and active job seekers? Come join us for an evening of informal networking, panels with hiring companies, and some light bites. In 2017, investments rose again—suggesting that 2015 might have been an unusual peak year. Can't make it?

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Trends Company EdTech Tools 68

Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 based education companies that raised a round of at least $250,000. Companies that primarily offer financial and loan services that serve education as one of many markets were also not included.

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EdTech Coursera Company Schoology 101

Edsurge

OCTOBER 6, 2016

Yet the company’s most impressive offering may have been its games. based company invested more than $25 million to partner with talented developers who built 30 learning games covering math, science and English Language Arts. 2015 after News Corporation sold Amplify. The Brooklyn, N.Y.-based But now they have found a new home.

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Company Industry Game-Based Learning Tablets 154

Edsurge

APRIL 26, 2019

The nonprofit publisher of K-12 curriculum launched in 2016 expecting an audience for its digital offerings. higher education courseware in 2015, down from 50 percent the year before, according to a 2018 report from Macquarie, an investment bank and financial services company. The industry has been proven wrong so many times.

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Chegg Software Industry Pearson 158

EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 19, 2018

By: Robyn Shulman, 2016. Fast Forward to 2016. News Best Colleges rankings from 1995 to 2015, university inflation has grown at profound rates. Many companies now offer tuition assistance to full and part time students. Company Education Programs. According to U.S. Student Employer. Online Resources.

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Company Study Resources Accessibility 222

Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

But when funding dries up and profits remain elusive, companies have to make tough cuts. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. He adds: “As a venture-funded company, there’s been a decision to get to profitability in the next nine to 12 months.” billion in U.S.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 114