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Thinkster Sought an Investment From an Adviser. Instead, It Bought His SAT Prep Company.

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The student may attempt to solve the equation through long division, perhaps drawing the numbers on a tablet computer with a finger. This is the basic premise of Thinkster Math, a New Jersey-based company that marries replay technology with a tutoring service. Valli plans to grow the company to about 60 people after the acquisition.

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What U.S. Companies Should Know About Asia's Edtech Market

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After a summer of market research and competitor analysis, the company eventually signed off on a collaboration with a Chinese partner, TAL Education. company that has eyed Asia as the next big market. But their story is not a blueprint that will make sense for every company. ThinkCERCA is definitely not the first U.S.

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Looking Back At 2010 And Looking Forward To 2011.

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So here is my reflections on 2010 and my predictions for 2011. Tablets- The iPad is wicked cool. This is the chance for us to see what will be hot in electronics this year and I expect it to be tablets. So education related companies are going to have to be innovative in the apps they create for these devices.

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When Education Giants Stumbled and Data Ruled

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They were the most powerful companies in education. They bought other companies to try to blend assessment and curriculum as they also continued publishing. On the other hand, companies like Curriculum Associates took the path of blended learning and have seen significant growth driven by a technology-first model.

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Is VR education an answer to the U.S. inmate problem?

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From 1980 until 2010, we experienced a 500 percent growth in incarceration. Tablet Technology for a Different Education. Based upon the 2010 study, I founded a company (IDS), which began putting tablets containing academic and vocational courses into jails and prisons. The average stay is 5 years.

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Sphero Makes a Big Acquisition in littleBits to Bring Hands-On STEAM Learning to Life

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based company explained the difficult decision as an effort to return its focus to the education market following a foray into creating consumer toys. Sphero has acquired littleBits , a New York City-based company best known for its electronic kits and instructional resources that introduce kids to building and programming by hand.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. In 2002, our team at Microsoft Education created an LMS for a world where every teacher and student had a tablet computer.

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