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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education to Acquire DreamBox Learning? 

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DreamBox Learning was founded in 2006 with the mission to transform the way the world learns through our pioneering intelligent adaptive learning technology, and today’s announcement represents a significant next step to achieving that mission. More information is available at www.clearlake.com and on Twitter @Clearlake.

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Tributes Pour in for Sir Ken Robinson, a ‘Source of Insight, Inspiration and Joy for Millions’

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After a distinguished career in education spanning more than three decades, Robinson died on August 21, according to a brief note on his Twitter page. We’re now running national education systems where mistakes are the worst thing you can make,” he said in his 2006 TED Talk , which has been watched more than 85 million times online.

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Clearlake Capital-Backed Discovery Education Acquires DoodleLearning

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In October of 2020, Discovery Education acquired Mystery Science and in July of 2020, Discovery Education purchased Spiral. is an investment firm founded in 2006 operating integrated businesses across private equity, credit, and other related strategies. DoodleLearning is Discovery Education’s latest acquisition.

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Shapegrams: Grab-and-Go Google Drawings Lessons

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In 2006 I became a self-employed consultant. Tony on Twitter: @tonyvincent. © Shake Up Learning 2020. If you teach grades two through eight, I invite you to get a Shapegram and give it a try. Enter to Win a Shapegrams Membership! Fill out the form below to enter. Winners will be notified via email by Sept. About Tony Vincent.

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Discovery Education Appoints Scott Kinney as Chief Executive Officer and Kelli Campbell as President

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On March 5th, Discovery Education made Discovery Education Experience available, at no cost, to any school system not currently using the company’s resources for the remainder of the 2019-2020 school year. From March 2020 to July 2020, over 15,000 new schools actively utilized Discovery Education Experience as part of instruction.

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NFL PLAY 60 Kids Day keeps kids active in advance of Super Bowl LV

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During this broadcast, the NFL team with the winning NFL PLAY 60 exercise of the 2020-2021 season will be announced. Since 2006, the NFL and the American Heart Association have teamed up to inspire kids by providing fun and engaging ways to get physically active. discoveryeducation.com. About Discovery Education.

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The Challenge of Teaching News Literacy

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Really with the advent of the first iPhone, around 2006, everything changed, and social media really took off. You can use Twitter, for example, to put yourself in the way of a lot of credible information every time you check your feed, it just depends on who you like and follow. And yeah, I mean that's just had a ripple effect.