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Early Edtech Giant PowerSchool Goes Public

Edsurge

Shares did rise nearly 3 percent in early trading, giving the software provider a valuation of about $3.6 Then publishing giant Pearson bought it from Apple in 2006. But by 2015, Pearson was looking to unload PowerSchool , which was bought by the private-equity firm Vista Equity Partners for $350 million.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2006 $272,300,000 (President Bush’s request: $0). Rationale: “ The Congress eliminated much of the program in 2006; the request would complete the process. FY 2015 $0. Effectiveness of Reading and Mathematics Software Products: Findings from the First Student Cohort (Mathematica Policy Research, 2007).

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Ed tech companies promise results, but their claims are often based on shoddy research

The Hechinger Report

As more schools went online and demand for education software grew, more companies began designing and commissioning their own studies about their products. Others sell some of the most widely used education software in schools today. Misleading research claims are increasingly common in the world of ed tech.

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

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The deal comes after KKR’s allotted capital for its investment in Weld North, which came from KKR’s 2006 fund, had run out. In 2015, Vista Equity Partners purchased PowerSchool, a student information system, and has since acquired another eight education companies. But expect more deals to come. Yet that’s not all.

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Owl Ventures’ New $185M Edtech Fund Has Global Backers—and Ambitions

Edsurge

Fueled by an explosion of broadband access, education software and, of course, the irresistible allure of financial returns, investors across the world want a slice of the U.S. 2015, focused on K-12 companies (with one exception). Dreambox, a provider of online math materials, dates back to 2006. edtech industry.

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Swarming the Classroom

EdTech4Beginners

15] To produces this type of interaction in my online classroom environment, I am using a free decision-making software called Loomio (www.loomio.org). He is best known as the author of the books Succeeding as a Foster Child a Workbook (2017), Finding Your Hero (2015), and Succeeding as a Foster Child (2014). 9 (August 2006). [4]

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. acquisition by LinkedIn in 2015 shows that billion-dollar exits are not limited to companies in higher education.

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