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A New Online Tutoring Market Has Emerged — In Construction. It Requires a Surprising Number of Books.

Edsurge

And companies that offer remote instruction to help tradespeople get ready to take the test say business has been booming during the pandemic—perhaps driven by the fact that demand for construction workers is high. That’s because the hours-long exams required in many states for construction professionals are purposely open-book.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Knewton Raises $52M; Imagine K12 Merges with Y Combinator

Marketplace K-12

In addition, the sector saw several new partnerships spring up, such as Edmentum’s new partnership with WebbAlign and Learning Forward joining forces with Amplify, the former digital education division of News Corp. million PreK-12 students.

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An Inside Look at the Edtech Purchasing Process

edWeb.net

While the Wild West era of edtech may be over, there’s still some mystery over how schools decide what digital materials to buy. Researcher: Sierra Noakes, Senior Research Project Manager, Digital Promise. This edWeb webinar was sponsored by Digital Promise. Developer: Dr. Ayanna Howard, CTO, Zyrobotics.

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Twelve Years Later: What’s Really Changed in the K-12 Sector? (Part 1)

Edsurge

At the time, Wireless Generation was expanding from its roots in K-3 reading assessment into new areas: intervention, professional development, and data systems. As education entrepreneurs know, growth in K-12 comes hard. Our mCLASS assessments for K-3 reading are used by more than 2 million students across the country.

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Hero Awards finalists: 18 schools and educators dedicated to learning

eSchool News

The eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards recognize the dedicated efforts of education professionals across K-12 departments, including IT, curriculum, instruction and administration. Seamless integration with teachers’ education platforms helped to immerse students in their learning material.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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I thought for a good long while about how best to summarize this decade, and inspired by the folks at The Verge , who published a list of “ The 84 biggest flops, fails, and dead dreams of the decade in tech ,” I decided to do something similar: chronicle for you a decade of ed-tech failures and f**k-ups and flawed ideas. Um, they do.)

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