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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 We wouldn’t be surprised if 2U or Chegg were taken private in the next year, since both companies have strong fundamentals and exceptional human capital. In 2009, our team at Kaplan Ventures invested in a virtual reality corporate training startup that was ten years too early.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Chegg has acquired WriteLab for $15 million. ” Via Edsurge : “Report: Class of 2018 Has Better Job Prospects than Classes of 2009–2017, but Still Faces Challenges.” Selected has raised $1.2 million in seed funding from Propel Capital and Kapor Capital for its teacher-hiring software.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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Kno was headed by Osman Rashid, the co-founder of the textbook rental company Chegg, and the tablet was aimed at the college market. In 2009, Techcrunch named the laptop one of the biggest flops of that decade.) The struggles faced by the One Laptop Per Child project have continued since its outset. (In

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