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AeroFarms Celebrates World Environment Day with Bronx School PS 85

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About AeroFarms Since 2004, AeroFarms has been leading the way for indoor vertical farming and championing transformational innovation for agriculture. On a mission to grow the best plants possible for the betterment of humanity, AeroFarms is a Certified B Corporation with global headquarters in Newark, New Jersey. and Whole Foods Market.

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How to Differentiate Instruction in Elementary Math

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She was named Outstanding Professor at UVa’s School of Education and Human Development in 2004 and received an All-University Teaching Award in 2008. And all the kids need to be in math conversations with the whole group or trying to talk with two people, but still in the whole group.

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Turnitin to Be Acquired by Advance Publications for $1.75B

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A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. The founders had to bootstrap the company in its early days.

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EdSurge Recommendations for What to Read, Watch and Listen to Over the Holiday Break

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The novel tells the coming-of-age story of three friends who start a video-game design company. We had a great talk about why group work is terrible and how to fix it, so check out the Q&A if you haven’t already.) So Babb’s book wasn’t published until 2004. Read more from Daniel here.

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Hoping to Spur 'Learning Engineering,' Carnegie Mellon Will Open-Source Its Digital-Learning Software

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In 1998, for instance, researchers from the university formed a spin-off company called Carnegie Learning that popularized the math tutor software developed at the university. More recently, in 2013, a company called Acrobatiq was formed to try to bring lessons learned from the Open Learning Initiative to the market.

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Omidyar Network Spins Off Education Portfolio Into Independent Investment Firm

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Imaginable Futures will exist with its own board within the greater Omidyar Group, says Imaginable Futures managing partner Amy Klement, who previously led Omidyar’s education investment activities. In the future, Klement says she’d like to invest in more companies and organizations bringing social emotional learning to emerging markets.

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Silver Lake Acquires Majority Stake in Weld North’s Digital Curriculum Business

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For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). Yet that’s not all.