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How a growing number of states are hoping to improve kids’ brains: exercise

The Hechinger Report

Everyone has a physical education class, called “phy-ed” here, at least twice a week. Students can also choose from two additional exercise-focused electives — dance and personal fitness — which for some students can mean a 40-minute exercise period every day. And the action doesn’t stop there. Some even took action.

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GitHub?s New Education Bundle Equips Students With Industry-Standard Coding Tools

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That’s the pitch behind GitHub ’s announcement that, starting today, educational institutions will now be able to access—for free—its enterprise and business-level offerings as part of a new GitHub Education package. million companies across the world, GitHub is considered the standard when it comes to software development platforms.

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Can You Say Unicorn? Duolingo Raises $30 Million at $1.5 Billion Valuation

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For the third time this year, an American education technology company is laying claim to the magical “unicorn” status. To date, company has raised $138 million. Founded in 2012, Duolingo claims more than 300 million users, of whom 30 million are active on a monthly basis, according to the company.

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Renaissance Learning Acquires Schoolzilla to Marry Assessment and School Data

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For her Schoolzilla company to continue to grow, it needed a larger sales division. based company up for acquisition talks. Schoolzilla, the company perhaps best known for its Mosaic dashboard product, has found a new home with Renaissance Learning , a Wisconsin Rapids, Wisc. The company claims to service a third of U.S.

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

Edsurge

Come June 30, operations at the Amazon-owned online education program will cease entirely. School and district users had ample warning about the demise of the adaptive K-12 math and writing software—the company issued a notice on its site 15 months ago—and yet many say that the off-boarding process was not a smooth one.

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Amazon Will Shut Down TenMarks and Its Digital Math and Writing Tools

Edsurge

Amazon will be sunsetting TenMarks and its online instructional tools, which were once at the forefront of the company’s K-12 digital education strategy. She emailed the company to learn that it was not. “It But the company gave no indication that it would close shop. education strategy. It had raised about $4.8

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First-of-its-kind, all-electric mobile preschool

eSchool News

A first-of-its kind vehicle will be hitting the streets this autumn in Colorado as an all-new, all-electric, ‘Magic Bus’ Mobile Preschool will serve to put early-childhood education on wheels. Visit YouthPower365.org org for more. About the Vail Valley Foundation. About Winnebago Industries. Winnebago Industries, Inc. is a leading U.S.