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PROOF POINTS: 861 colleges and 9,499 campuses have closed down since 2004

The Hechinger Report

is one of more than 800 colleges and 9,000 campuses that have closed since 2004. For-profit operators ran more than 80 percent of the 861 institutions that ceased operations between 2004 and 2021. Almost 9,500 campuses closed between 2004 and 2021. Becker College in Worcester, Mass., Credit: Jon Marcus.

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Why most schools won’t ‘reinvent’ themselves after the pandemic

Dangerously Irrelevant

As I noted in a recent article that I submitted: “… reflection on organizational possibilities and institutional futures is common during the ‘reconstruction’ phase (Boin & Hart, 2003) of a crisis (see also Coombs, 2000; Heath, 2004; Boin, Hart, Stern, & Sundelius, 2005; Jaques, 2009; Smith & Riley, 2012). Millar & R.

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IXL to Acquire Australian Digital Instructional Provider, 3P Learning, for $135 Million

Edsurge

If passed, the deal would mark IXL’s fourth acquisition in three years, following its purchase of Vocabulary.com in March 2020, Education.com in 2019 and ABCya the year before. Founded in 2004, 3P Learning offers a suite of supplemental digital content for math, literacy and science subjects.

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PROOF POINTS: Debunking the myth that teachers stop improving after five years

The Hechinger Report

In a 2004 paper, economist Jonah Rockoff, now at Columbia Business School, tracked how teachers improved over their careers and noticed that teachers were getting better at their jobs by leaps and bounds at first, as measured by their ability to raise their students’ achievement test scores.

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Noodle Acquires ‘Key Assets’ of HotChalk to Expand Online Program Services

Edsurge

Founded in 2004, HotChalk has raised $235 million in investment capital, most of it from German publisher Bertelsmann. It estimates that there could be almost 300 new partnerships formed by the end of 2020, nearly doubling the tally from the previous year. Industry sources say that this transaction was likely nowhere near that amount.

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Understanding, Teaching, and Reaching Digital Native Students—and Digital Native Caregivers

Waterford

March 2020. Education, Communication & Information, 2004, 4(1), pp. “Busting the Myths of the Digital Native.” OurChildren.org. Bowman, Sam. Educating the Digital Native: Teaching Students in a Binge-Watching World.” Faculty Focus. Lynch, Matthew. How to Teach a Room of Digital Natives.” EdWeek.org. How to Integrate Technology.”

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Arkansas’ LISA Academy Renews Partnership with Global Edtech Leader Supporting Student Success

eSchool News

Established in 2004, all 11 schools across the state are accredited by the Arkansas Department of Elementary and Secondary Education. Discovery Education is the global edtech leader whose state-of-the-art digital platform supports instruction wherever it takes place. Mystery Science.

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