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Fueled by Big Rounds, Edtech Funding Surges to $887M in First Half of 2017

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edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. The bull is back—or is it? Round Size.

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Chinese New Year- What Animal Am I?

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1929, 1941, 1953, 1965, 1977, 1989, 2001, 2013, 2025), you are likely to have these traits: thoughtfulness and a profound sense of decision making, you mean what you say, a smart communicator, "you always have the facts to defend your what you think—and rarely back down." If you were born in the Dragon year (e.g.,1928,

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Making Video Games for Higher Ed Requires Major Investment. Is It Worth It?

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For higher education, with smaller potential audiences and student outcomes at stake, companies are debating whether return on investment is there for game-based learning experiences. Triseum is a private company that spun out of Texas A&M University’s Live Lab in late 2014. Norton & Company. Enter Textbook Publishers.

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How to reorientate education from knowledge acquisition to knowledge & skill mastery

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In a recent research, Google found no correlation between GPAs and success in a workplace ( Bryant, 2013 ). People who succeed there are sort of finely trained, they’re conditioned to succeed in that environment” ( Bryant, 2013 ). Waterman, Schwartz, Goldbacher, Green, Miller, Philip, 2001 ).

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL - Episode 8 Today, "Home as a Place for Learning" #reinventingschool

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Farenga worked closely with one of the founders of the modern homeschooling movement, the late author and teacher John Holt, and published Growing Without Schooling magazine ( GWS ) from 1985 until it stopped in 2001. GWS was the nation’s first periodical about learning without going to school, started by Holt in 1977.

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Why a Robot-Filled Education Future May Not Be as Scary as You Think

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PwC explains that the cost of DNA sequencing per genome has fallen from $96 million in 2001 to less than $6,000 in 2013. It may be hard to imagine, but soon enough, major companies and organizations will soon house large networks of people but few employees. As a discrete example, think about our growing gig economy.

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State Leadership Working Towards Broadband Access for All

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He previously managed UConn’s Network Engineering and Data Center Operations teams, having started his career there as a junior network technician in the summer of 2001. In 2018, ENA joined forces with a company who share ENA’s same vision and passion for delivering excellence—CatchOn.