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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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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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CatchOn Joins the Education Networks of America Family of Companies

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JUNE 26, 2018 In a move that enhances its mission of supporting education institutions and libraries, Education Networks of America ® (ENA) today announced that Dallas-based education technology company CatchOn, Inc has joined the ENA family of companies. Draper will continue as general manager of CatchOn.

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Helping Teachers Reach Every Student

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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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How ‘Learning Engineering’ Hopes to Speed Up Education

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Herbert Simon, a pioneer in artificial intelligence and learning engineering who died in 2001, is immersed in his office at Carnegie Mellon University. In recent years, Simon’s ideas have found new traction, thanks to new computing technologies that would have seemed alien in the ’60s.

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In Successful Edtech, Pedagogy Comes First—Devices Second

Digital Promise

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. But follow-up studies showed a bigger problem.

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For Online Class Discussions, Instructors Move From Text to Video

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“The threaded discussion felt always like the wrong medium for learning,” says Joyce Valenza, an assistant teaching professor at Rutgers University's School of Communication and Information, who has been teaching online since 2001. Most teachers use the free version, but the company offers a more full-featured product that costs $65-per year.

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