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EdSurge HigherEd Year in Review: Our Top Higher Education Stories of 2018

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Cheating on Chegg? It’s no surprise that students would ask for help on platforms like Chegg, which offer digital textbooks as well as tutoring and homework help. But after cutting assets ranging from the company’s stake in The Economist to PowerSchool, a student information system, Pearson finally reported a profit again in 2017.

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Reach Capital’s Newest Education Technology Investment Fund Closes at $82 Million

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These meetings, she says, inform how they interact with entrepreneurs. The firm traces its roots to 2012, when Jennifer Carolan and Wayee Chu (now both general partners at Reach), started a $12 million “Seed Fund” at NewSchools Venture Fund, an Oakland-based education nonprofit philanthropy. WriteLab (Chegg). Zaption (Workday).

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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. 3D printing, The Economist pronounced in 2012 , was poised to bring about the third industrial revolution. (I It was an elaborate scam, dating back to 2012, but one that gave out many online signals that the school was “real.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. Saint Francis High School invested $15,000 in the company back in 2012. Privacy, Surveillance, and Information Security. Via Techcrunch : “ Duolingo brings Tinycards to the web.”