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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

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Companies like to talk about their journey in raising money and growing over time, and one waypost for such journeys is to reach the ringing bells of a stock-market debut. heard those bells today, as the company began trading on the New York Stock Exchange—though the initial price ended up on the low end of expectations.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

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Educational technology (edtech for short) can play a significant role in mitigating and solving this growing dilemma. Many school districts -- including mine in Middletown, NY-- are leveraging the power of technology with adaptive assessments and instructional software. Four years later, the district was demanding a refund from Apple.

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Why ‘Black Box’ Software Isn’t Ready to Teach College

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That’s the argument of Candace Thille, who has a love-distrust relationship with adaptive software. Specifically she worries that some companies have made their products a “black box” that professors and researchers can’t understand or control. That was way back in 2001. Can you talk more about that?

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Helping Teachers Reach Every Student

EdNews Daily

Editor’s note: This is one in a series of profiles about the men and women who are creating today’s EdTech companies. The method teaches children to read by providing training and direction instruction materials for teachers and individualized software instruction for students. By Kenna McHugh.

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A Billionaire Benefactor, a Disputed Ballot Issue and a Community College Turnaround

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Texarkana College adopted new enterprise software and other edtech tools like an early-alert system, but technology was only one aspect of the school’s effort. Things changed in 2001, when then-president Carl Nelson died unexpectedly, leaving the campus and its leadership in shock. It was just like everything was fine and dandy.”

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The Emergency Home Learning Summit Final Week - 24 Amazing Interviews Start Tomorrow

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

To date, Stephen’s work has been featured by Forbes, Fast Company, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, USA Today, ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN, FOX, TNT, Disney, Discovery TV, NPR, Teach Middle East, The Gulf National, and countless others. Roger Schank Chairman and CEO, Socratic Arts Roger Schank. Chris was named as one of “40 Under 40?

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Education Technology, Betsy DeVos, and the Innovation Gospel

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The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.