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Chegg to Buy Coding Bootcamp Thinkful for $80 Million

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Chegg , a Santa Clara, Calif.-based The acquisition will cost Chegg about $80 million in cash for Thinkful, with possible additional payments of up to $20 million in cash or stock based on performance, according to a statement Wednesday. Chegg had been holding onto $1.1 Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal.

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Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding

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The company last raised $30 million in a Series C round led by Naspers in 2016, and a $10 million Series B back in 2012. Codecademy hired its first chief financial officer last November: former Chegg executive and general manager Adam Goldman. Chegg went public in 2013.

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Why Your Financial Advisor Doesn’t Recommend Edtech Stocks

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I think you’re wrong, so I propose a bet: We’ll both invest in a basket of stocks on January 1, 2012—mine representing the edtech industry, and yours the whole economy. Back in 2012, there were seven companies that fell into this category. a share in May 2016, it was down 88 percent from January 2012. Cambium Learning Group.

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Where in the World Is Planet3? An Educational Gaming CEO Seeks His Second Act

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In a December 2016 letter by Clark County Superintendent Pat Skorkowsky to Kelly about the pilot program, Skorkowsky noted that students enjoyed lessons about data literacy from the product’s visualizations and about science from real-world case studies. Atari founder Nolan Bushnell started BrainRush in 2012.

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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 (I For their part, critics of laptop bans claimed the studies the op-eds frequently cite were flawed, reductive, and out-of-date.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Via NPR: “ To This Scholar, For-Profit Colleges Are ‘Lower Ed’ ” “ For-Profit Schools Rebound Under Trump,” according to the National Center for the Study of Privatization in Education. Saint Francis High School invested $15,000 in the company back in 2012. And still more from Hill.