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Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

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Edmodo is permanently shuttering , the company announced late Monday. It’s no longer viable “for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves,” the company wrote in an online explanation of its closure. Started in 2008, Edmodo boasted tens of millions of users.

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The Next Edtech IPO Might Be This London-Based Language Learning Company

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Niesner claims the company is on track to hit $40 million in revenue in 2020. The company is still shy of the $100 million revenue threshold commonly associated with IPO-ready companies. How They Work Busuu has grown considerably since its 2008 founding. Busuu CEO Bernhard Niesner on his company's origins.

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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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COVID-19 Has Widened the Skills Gap. But It Also Presents an Opportunity to Close It.

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employees working from home and interacting with colleagues and customers remotely at the peak of the pandemic, many companies began to invest in digital transformation initiatives to address gaps in cloud adoption and cybersecurity. In 2008, it was global experience. Many employers are wrestling with their own Catch-22.

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PROOF POINTS: The more tuition rises, the cheaper college gets — for some

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Cook and Turner were able to conduct this analysis because the Department of Education began requiring colleges to report tuition paid by students from different family income levels beginning in 2008. The majority of students at two-year community colleges, for example, don’t fall into this first-time, full-time category.

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The E4Effort App: Working to Add a Measurement that Works

The CoolCatTeacher

Ballentine Books, 2008.) Let’s look at an example to take this conversation further. So, for example, if they go into a math class and they struggle with math, a person with a fixed mindset would say something like “I am not good at math” and never improve. Dweck, Carol S. Mindset: The New Psychology of Success.

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OPINION: Studying humanities can prepare the next generation of social justice leaders

The Hechinger Report

During the decade following the Great Recession of 2008, the number of humanities bachelor’s degree recipients fell by a whopping 14 percent — from a peak of about 236,000. Miriam Hamburger, a 2017 religious studies graduate from Occidental College, is a good example.

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