The CoolCatTeacher

DECEMBER 19, 2023

She has held several leadership positions with education companies, most recently Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Achieve 3000, Kaplan K12, and Renaissance Learning. Prior to this, they founded their own company called EdGenius.net, where they provided consulting services for organizations looking to improve teaching and learning practices.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

-based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful , a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. For Chegg, founded in 2005, this latest acquisition will expand its direct-to-student learning platform and add more technology career courses.

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Edsurge

MARCH 11, 2021

Aside from a handful of large operators like Bright Horizons, a publicly traded company, most programs are small businesses and home-based operations. Prior to the pandemic, the number of child care facilities has been declining since 2005, driven largely by fewer home-based providers.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 25, 2019

The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. Regardless, I only recommend products or services that I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies that I can recommend. See Lease, A. M., & Blake, J.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

It’s rare enough for any entrepreneur to lead a company to a $275 million sale—in cash. But that’s how much Dave Dahl sold his family company , Dave’s Killer Bread, for in 2015. Today, it claims to be the largest organic bread company in America. He learned about it when the company reached out to him last November.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

Since its founding in 1984, Lexia has grown from a small home-based business in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to a company with nearly 1,000 employees currently serving more than 6.8 It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Not only have the companies on the 2018 Inc. If your company is on the Inc.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 31, 2023

About 95 Percent Group Founded in 2005, 95 Percent Group is an education company whose mission is to help educators identify and address the needs of all readers. The pilot school’s students showed advanced growth on the i-Ready ® diagnostic reading assessment. for the pilot school vs. 0.31 for the comparison school).

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2020

Mike Silagadze isn’t shy about his desire to take market share from the largest college textbook publishers through his classroom software company Top Hat. He believes his company’s brand of digital textbooks beats anything Pearson, McGraw-Hill and their ilk can provide. The company has raised $90 million to date.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The addition of the Chicago-based company will expand IXL’s capacity to address the needs of all students with personalized, one-on-one mentoring. . Founded in 2005, Wyzant offers an expansive digital network of more than 65,000 tutors from a broad spectrum of academic and professional fields. About Wyzant .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014. We will see the acceleration of $1 billion companies created from about 20 unicorn transactions from 2015 to 2019 to more than 50 in the next five years, which will continue to increase as this next decade unfolds.

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Edsurge

JUNE 17, 2021

Once upon a time, the music industry meant gramophones, Victrolas and record players, and large companies called labels controlled what got recorded, the talent that recorded it and the sale of the recordings. Newspaper circulation dropped by nearly half between 2005 and 2018, from 53.3 million to 28.5 billion to $14.3

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Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2020

In 2005, the aftermath of a once-in-a-century hurricane provided an opportunity to think anew about how to design an education system and rebuild a city. Here’s how: Invest in research & development: The Big Four tech companies have spent over $600 billion on R&D in the last decade. I live in New Orleans.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 14, 2022

In addition, the company also demonstrated its commitment to making its robust research base clear and accessible to the public. Founded in 2005, 95 Percent Group is an education company whose mission is to help educators identify and address the needs of all readers. About 95 Percent Group.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Dunce Capital doesn’t sound like a name that a company would want on its cap table , especially one that’s in the business of making people smarter. million fund that Danner and a partner (who he declined to name) launched in 2019, with their own money, to make angel investments in education companies.

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Edsurge

MARCH 22, 2017

During her time there, the company tripled in size and she earned a promotion. When it launched in 2005, the idea of a $100 laptop for the world’s poorest children captured the backing of Google, eBay and UNDP. Edtech companies entering low-income countries are noticing some of these challenges and are working towards solutions.

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Edsurge

MARCH 15, 2019

In some cases, the company also helped the applicants cheat on ACT or SAT tests, or took online classes for them to boost their applications. The Los Angeles-based company, called USA-UES, listed Rick Singer as its co-chairman as of Thursday. Officials for the company did not respond to our repeated requests for an interview.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 13, 2017

Both companies trace their lineage to top-pedigree universities: Carnegie grew out of research on computer-based instructional systems started by Carnegie Mellon researchers. Carnegie Learning spun out as an independent company in 1998. After it became an independent company in 2014, Harel raised another $3.5

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Edsurge

APRIL 13, 2018

A Microsoft spokesperson says over email that this technology is publicly available, and that the company is aware of dozens of K-12 schools that are using it in the classroom. The company says its transcription technology is also useful at a broader level. NTID is one of RIT’s nine schools.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 27, 2017

Mazza’s innovative work has been written about in fifteen books since 2005. The company who sponsored it compensated me via cash payment, gift, or something else of value to include a reference to their product. ” This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show. Blog: Dr. Joe Mazza. Twitter: @joe_mazza.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 6, 2018

But there’s another number that also has the company excited. The company has now raised $32 million in total. Founded in 2005, Quizlet is probably best known for its digital flashcards, built by a then-high schooler, Andrew Sutherland, who is still with the company as its chief technology officer. Today, U.S.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. PowerSchool, owned by Vista Equity Partners, has acquired eight companies since June 2015. The bull is back—or is it? Round Size.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2017

Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. featured 124 companies from 18 countries—marking the largest class in the accelerator’s history. The company will not take more than $30,000 over the two years.) The company says it has 50 hiring partners and plans to grow the list.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 25, 2021

He is currently the head of assessment and learning sciences at Roblox, an online gaming company. In response, testing companies have conducted research to prove that the combination of grades and test scores is important by calculating that the two together are best at predicting first year college performance.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

1933, 1945, 1957, 1969, 1981, 1993, 2005, 2017, 2029), legend has it that you are a person who is well organized, likes to work according to well-planned schedules, and you do your best to succeed at whatever you do. In ancient times, sworn brothers must swear to the heavens, then drip rooster blood into wine and drink it all." (CNY).

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

Founded in 2005, 95 Percent Group is an educational company whose mission is to help educators identify and address the needs of all readers. Students using PLL and PCK showed higher gains than the comparison group on multiple measures. About 95 Percent Group.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

In the 1980s, researchers developed an adaptive-tutoring math system used in high schools and colleges, and the tool was spun out as an independent company in 1998. Since then the company has swapped hands between other private-equity firms and private investors. He declined to share whether the company is turning a profit.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

Back in 2005, one of the biggest stories in tech was a project by a group of MIT professors to build a $100 laptop and give them to children in schools around the world. Quite a few big companies. Nestle was one, they contracted with a Uruguayan game company to make Nestle-themed mini games that were specifically installable on the XO.

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Edsurge

MARCH 2, 2019

From an economics lens, it’s no accident that the idea of smaller and flexible schools is being picked up during an era when the small and flexible entrepreneurial organization is perceived as the new norm for the successful and innovative company, versus the large, centrally organized corporation that defined business success until very recently.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

Nearly four years later, the Utah-based company is taking another business leap, with a $10 million investment from edtech venture capital firm Owl Ventures. We needed a company that was able to do that.”. Then going forward, the company would charge for services, like maintenance or software hosting, to drive revenue.

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eSchool News

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Following stints as Assistant Director of Curriculum and Instruction and Director of Educational Technologies at Pennsylvania’s Carbon Lehigh Intermediate Unit #21 , Kinney joined Discovery Education in 2005. I am incredibly honored to be selected as the next CEO of this great company,” said Kinney. “For

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2018

While describing her experience after Hurricane Katrina flooded out her district back in 2005, Truesdale harped that leaders should be prepared for lack of access and instability at any time. Houpe has been working with a company called Cisco to secure his district’s network.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 6, 2018

One in eight couples married in 2005 met online.”. So I always need a graphic design company to step up and help with the graphic part. The video presented a series of surprising statistics set to music, including: “In 10 years, it is predicted that the number one English speaking country in the world will be … China.”.

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 2, 2014

February 2005: Bellevue, Washington. So Slivka decided to launch a new company partly inspired on long-ago science fiction reading, such as Enders Game by Orson Scott Card and The Diamond Age by Neal Stephenson—books that weave futuristic education tools into the narrative. CHAPTER 9: Sci-Fi-Inspired Software.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 11, 2021

Excel High School is a nonpublic school headquartered in Minnetonka, Minnesota, and has been in operation since 2005. Cengage Group, an education technology company serving millions of learners in 165 countries, advances the way students learn through quality, digital experiences. About Cengage Group and Gale.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Called Blitz, the service lets companies propose a project, and then Udacity provides a cost estimate and puts together a team of alumni engineers to complete it. Once the project is finished, companies have the option to hire “Blitzers” full-time. The company defines “job” as full- or part-time and freelance work.)

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