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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

Edsurge

The masochistic obsession with studying has deep roots. TAL Education Group , which began as a solo tutoring operation in 2003 and has since grown into a publicly-traded empire, boasting $620 million in revenue in 2015 from a network of over 300 brick-and-mortar tutoring centers. That history is not lost on investors.

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Education Technology and the Year of Wishful Thinking

Hack Education

In 2005, Joan Didion published The Year of Magical Thinking , which chronicles her husband’s death in December 2003, shortly after their daughter had fallen into septic shock and been placed an induced coma. Indeed, she’s quite methodical with her study – her inspection, introspection – of grief. So many losses.