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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

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Natick Public Schools has been using TenMarks since it launched in 2009, Nolin says. “They’re definitely not ideal replacements in terms of what we were looking for,” he says. But we were spoiled because we really loved TenMarks.” Today, it’s used regularly by about 2,500 students from first through eighth grade.

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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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The technologies built by these companies span a wide gamut of buzzwords (adaptive learning, artificial intelligence, gamification) but will be integrated with TAL’s online offerings. Sinovation Ventures , a venture firm founded in 2009 by Google’s former chief in China. TAL has already directly funded a handful of U.S.

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Responding to President Obama''s call to train 100,000 teachers in STEM subjects in the next 10 years, Google and 80 other organizations have founded 100Kin10. According to the report, 38% of kids in this age range are playing mobile games, up from 8% in 2009. students to address the most pressing national and global challenges."

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) He told NPR in 2015 that Knewton’s adaptive learning software was a “mind-reading robo tutor in the sky.” But these outlandish claims of a powerful piece of learning software never matched what materialized.

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