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Austin Independent School District Selects IXL to Support Classroom Instruction and Distance Learning

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IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced a three-year agreement with Austin Independent School District to bring its adaptive software to approximately 70,000 students. About IXL Learning.

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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

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The size of this acquisition dwarfs that of a similar one last year: Discovery Education’s $140-million purchase of Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum. Mystery Science had raised just $4.5 million in outside capital.)

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

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Across the district’s elementary and middle schools, Yakima had about 8,400 students on the program for the last three years. In the second half of the 2018-19 school year, Winthrop began trying out different online math programs, including IXL Learning , DreamBox and Mathletics. But they say they never received answers.

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Educators on Artificial Intelligence: Here's the One Thing it Can't Do Well

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Amongst these eight educators, edtech software such as IXL Learning and i-Ready both get lumped in with Amazon’s Alexa in the same AI bucket, despite the fact that a tool like IXL doesn’t theoretically become smarter over time as a user interacts with it.