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Two Universities Team Up to Stay Alive, But Stop Short of Merging

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Colleges don’t like to think of themselves as businesses, but a growing number these days are facing the harsh reality of falling enrollments and a struggle to make their financial numbers add up. This fledgling network of colleges isn’t the only example of new types of partnerships. News won't reward us for it. We don't care.”

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These Education Books Sparked Conversation in 2018—And Give Us A Glimpse At What’s Ahead

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While many people look to news headlines about innovations and promising practices, we are also wise to note several new and substantive books that sparked important conversation over the last year. Similarly, education service, product and content providers give us a long and colorful story of mergers and acquisitions.

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How Education Can Thrive in the Age of Innovation

EdNews Daily

What this new era requires is the ability to generate new ideas, to develop them through mastery of such skills as storytelling, design, and collaboration and then drive these ideas to the realization of value through entrepreneurship. I just need someone to show me how.”. Seeing risk as hazard will lead to conservatism.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Kobe Bryant Invests in Chinese Ed. Company; Nepris, RedShelf Raise Funds

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And check out EdWeek Market Brief , a service that provides companies doing business with schools with news, analysis, and original data on the needs and priorities of K-12 systems. Additional funders include Silicon Valley Social Venture Fund, Investor’s Circle Patient Capital Collaborative, Voqual and other angel investors.

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Will a new batch of licenses help rural students get online?

The Hechinger Report

Like much of rural America, Garfield County is on the wrong side of the “homework gap” — a stubborn disparity in at-home broadband that hinders millions of students’ access to the array of online learning, collaboration and research tools that are enjoyed by their better-connected peers. Going without isn’t an option.

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

Marketplace K-12

Venture capital deals in the ed-tech market dominated the news over the past week, with companies such as Knewton, SchoolMint, and NuuEd announcing the completion of funding rounds as well as ed-tech accelerator Imagine K12 merging with the Y Combinator fund. Imagine K12 Merges With Y Combinator: The Redwood City, Calif.-based

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K-12 Dealmaking: Investor Weld North, Learn Launch Make Big Moves

Marketplace K-12

Meanwhile, McGraw-Hill Education and AT&T unveiled plans to offer new resources and opportunities for ed-tech start-ups: McGraw-Hill Education Partners with LearnLaunch: McGraw-Hill Education and Boston-based LearnLaunch are partnering to promote innovation in education through the development of learning technology.

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