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Weld North Education Acquires LearnZillion in Its First K-12 Core Curriculum Deal

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Then, the company worked on building a library of supplemental materials and instructional videos, many created by teachers it paid. Grayer, who was the CEO of Kaplan for more than a decade before starting Weld North in 2010, said his plan has always been to amass an empire of digital curriculum offerings. “My

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A Welder of Digital Curriculum Companies Buys Its Latest

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Since 2010, Weld North Education’s CEO and co-founder, Jonathan Grayer, has been scooping up online educational assets and fusing them together in an effort to create “the largest provider of digital curriculum serving preK-12 schools,” as he tells EdSurge in an interview. Founded in 1977, Glynlyon consists of two product divisions.

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The Library 2.011 worldwide virtual conference starts in just over a week! The Chronicle of Higher Education reports that an investment firm run by Jonathan Grayer, the former CEO of Kaplan, has acquired Learning House , a company that helps colleges develop online degree programs. decreases from the fourth quarter of 2010.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. But in 2010, the company, co-founded by Gina Bianchini and Marc Andreessen, announced that it would no longer offer a free version. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning.

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