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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

Edsurge

Tech giant Apple bought the company in 2001. But by 2015, Pearson was looking to unload PowerSchool , which was bought by the private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $350 million. Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Three, because the question matters, there will always remain debates about the quality of the research base on technology in schools and for learning, about what we can infer from the research base (case in point: the 2015 OECD study ), and about how best to study new innovations.

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307: Elevating Media Literacy Through Screen Language: Insights from Sherard Duvall

The Thinking Stick

After graduation in 2001, he took a job first as Production Assistant at Columbia’s Mad Monkey, then in 2004 as an editor at Genesis Studios in Cayce, South Carolina. It was in 1998 as a African-American History minor and Media Arts Film major that Shekeese first started exploring film as a creative expression.

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Trends to watch in 2015: education and technology

Bryan Alexander

Here I’d like to identify trends from 2015 which seem likely to persist or grow over the next year. 2015 had a martyr for textbook costs, but I haven’t seen this inspire any movements towards cheaper texts. ” Because that’s where things seem to be headed in 2015. post-2001) web.

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

Edsurge

Founded in 1997, Powerschool was first bought by Apple in 2001, and then by Pearson in 2006. The publisher sold the PowerSchool to private equity firm Vista Equity Partners in June 2015. Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Its last influx of funding came in the form of a $32 million Series D round in 2015.

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OPINION: Resuming universal standardized testing in America’s public schools would be ‘foolhardy’

The Hechinger Report

The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (NCLB) expanded the federal role in school oversight, calling for testing nearly all children in grades 3 through 8 annually in English Language Arts and mathematics to assess their proficiency.

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Is college enrollment among older adults increasing? Depends who you ask

The Hechinger Report

Contrary to NCES’ latest report about the decline this decade, in April NCES stated there had been a 35 percent increase in college students aged 25 to 34 between 2001 and 2015. Between 2015 and 2026, enrollment is projected to increase 11 percent.

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