Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The layoffs ranged from junior-level employees to the very top: Cory Reid, who joined in April 2011 and was named CEO in June 2014, is out. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. When Reid took over, Hewitt stayed at MasteryConnect as its chief product officer.

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EdTech Company Academic Standards Industry 113

Digital Promise

JANUARY 19, 2016

These tools help us identify and then address -- through intervention or enrichment -- individual students' needs around each of the major academic standards. Venture funding in the edtech sector has increased from $385 million in 2009 to an expected $2 billion this year.

EdTech 120

EdTech Blended Learning Khan Academy iPad 120

The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 22, 2017

In 2016, unintentional overdoses claimed 1,465 lives statewide, up from 613 in 2011. In Brockton – a once-prosperous town called “shoe city” until the last of its footwear factories closed in 2009 – drugs are plentiful. Drug use, suspensions and expulsions have put many students here far behind academically.

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Report Meeting Study Data 67