eSchool News

JULY 21, 2023

Connecting educators to a vast collection of high-quality, standards-aligned content, ready-to-use digital lessons, intuitive quiz and activity creation tools, and professional learning resources, Discovery Education provides an enhanced learning platform that facilitates engaging, daily instruction in any environment. Discovery, Inc.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

And with the rise in adoption of edtech tools—largely due to the pandemic—Reach sees plenty of other opportunities emerging for another decade. With the pandemic, people are coming around to realize the importance of having the right edtech tools that ensure that students have great educational experiences.” million in venture capital.

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The Web20Classroom

JANUARY 2, 2012

We are seeing more and more teachers, conferences, and companies embrace QR as another way to engage students, audiences and customers. Just my feelings from what I have been reading and seeing and what I believe will take a great hold in educational technology. So, how did I do last year? QR Codes- I said QR would take more of a foot hold.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Launched in 2012 by two visionary educators—Peter Bohacek and Matt Vonk—the platform provides users with more than 10,000 authentic, interactive video-based science interactives crafted by Pivot’s expert curriculum team and teacher community. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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EdTech Magazine

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

In 2012, a Gates Foundation donation to study a biometric tool caused a backlash among educators, parents and political pundits who considered this type of data collection to be intrusive. Her firm helps companies develop technology for young people that is compliant with safety and security concerns. “If

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A Principal's Reflections

JUNE 17, 2018

The most successful companies are successful because they are always looking for ways to improve. Best of all they can serve as an empowerment tool to help kids exert more ownership over their learning. The same philosophy can be applied to our schools. The research fully supports this proclamation.

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techlearning

MAY 24, 2018

May 24, 2018—The Boston Business Journal announced that Curriculum Associates has been named to their 2018 “Fast 50” list of the Fastest-Growing Private Companies in Massachusetts for the fourth consecutive year. Companies that did not show growth from 2016 to 2017 were excluded. NORTH BILLERICA, Mass.,

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Edsurge

MAY 23, 2019

Pursuit of unusual ideas has defined Silver’s career, from his work helping to develop the Scratch block-based programming language to starting JoyLabz, the company behind the Makey Makey invention kits that introduce kids to programming and build skills through hands-on projects. “He was ahead of his time,” Silver recalls.

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eSchool News

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Launched in 2012, the platform provides users with more than 10,000 authentic, interactive video-based science interactives crafted by Pivot’s expert curriculum team and teacher community. The service’s built-in tools—including IRIS, a first-of-its-kind color and light gauge—make for quick and accurate measurements. Discovery, Inc.

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eSchool News

MARCH 3, 2022

Since its founding in 2012, TeachBoost has built simple, user-friendly tools to help educators elevate observation, evaluation, and professional development beyond compliance. RIDGELAND, Miss. TeachBoost’s platforms can be customized to meet the needs of schools, districts, and organizations of any size and across any workflow.

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The CoolCatTeacher

AUGUST 23, 2018

In early 2012, my district decided to bring a 1:1 mobile device initiative to the middle school students and I was fortunate enough to get a cart of iPads in my classroom. I was lucky enough to be offered the position, and I left my classroom March of 2012. I am passionate about technology and its effects on teaching and learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

Jason Palmer has returned to New Markets Venture Partners , where he spent two years beginning in 2012 as an entrepreneur-in-residence. The four focus areas include career credentialing, digital and adaptive learning platforms, STEM and computer science instructional tools and data analytic services for schools.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. The deal, which officially closed on Monday, marks the latest step in PowerSchool’s march to create a platform that connects the different digital tools that students and teachers use in everyday instruction.

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Edsurge

JULY 29, 2019

Schultz has taken a career in building special needs software and games for people who are blind or have low vision into ObjectiveEd, a new endeavor at a time when investor interest in educational tools and investor interest in assistive technology are apparently on the rise. million across 38 deals in 2012 to $276.5

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

The Minerva Project started in 2012 to reinvent American higher education. Case in point: The San Francisco-based company just raised $57 million in a Series C round led by Bytedance, the Chinese technology giant best known for its video-sharing app, TikTok. To date, the company has raised just north of $128 million in venture capital.

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eSchool News

JUNE 13, 2022

This puts the combined company on the map as the leading provider of applications supporting the core fundamentals of education. With so many start-ups in the EdTech industry there will be inevitable consolidation and lots of elimination of fledgling companies,” adds Chris Twyman, founder of BoomWriter. ABOUT BOOMWRITER MEDIA, INC.:

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 31, 2019

And core to continuing that momentum will be changes in both tools and practices that support students’ close partners in learning, namely educators. and elsewhere regularly use software and curriculum developed within the past decade, often developed by small companies and former educators. Clever-2012. Nearpod-2012.

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Edsurge

MARCH 31, 2020

“Lifelong learning” is an ideal often celebrated in education circles, and a new company is setting out to prove that the pursuit of new skills and knowledge doesn’t stop at age 55, 62 or whenever Social Security retirement benefits kick in in the future. It’s what a lot of people say when I pitch them this tool,” says D’Souza.

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2019

In 2012, First Book , a nonprofit that provides affordable learning materials to kids in need, approached the publishers of “The Very Hungry Caterpillar” and asked: Can you make a bilingual version of the popular children’s book? And many of them have expressed a desire for digital tools. In 2012, the Center received a $1.5

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 2, 2018

Now, just a few months into his current role as CEO at Achieve3000, Udell is already adding another company to the list. Founded in 2000, Achieve3000 offers online literacy tools for a range of students, from English language learners in schools to working adults. And the U.S. market makes up 95 percent of its users.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 7, 2017

Panorama Education ’s first product was a survey tool that let students speak up about their learning environment. It turns out these insights are only a sliver of the data the company wants to surface and share with educators and parents. The company has now raised $32 million in venture funding. That’s no easy feat.

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techlearning

AUGUST 15, 2018

5000, the most prestigious ranking of the nation’s fastest-growing private companies. The list represents a unique look at the most successful companies within the American economy’s most dynamic segment—its independent small businesses. Not only have the companies on the 2018 Inc. If your company is on the Inc.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

The Denton, Texas-based company is also growing up itself. ReadyRosie founder and CEO Emily Roden says helping children by engaging their parents has helped her company grow to serve 6,500 Head Start programs, childcare centers and elementary schools. The company has raised no outside capital since its start.

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Securly

FEBRUARY 14, 2017

In 2012, Chromebooks accounted for only 1% of the devices sold to US classrooms; now, they make up more than half of the edtech market. As Secretary Duncan’s chief of staff wrote at the time, the Common Core was intended to create a national market for book publishers, technology companies , testing corporations, and other vendors.”.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 10, 2018

A few days earlier, that company’s competitor Reasoning Mind was acquired by Imagine Learning, a private equity-backed curriculum company. The Seoul, South Korea-based education company was purchased by Daekyo , an operator of after-school learning centers and academic enrichment programs in the country. schools market.

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The CoolCatTeacher

OCTOBER 19, 2016

Given the points I’ve made already, I believe that formative assessment is one of the key tools for the 21st-century educator’s toolbox. GradeCam is a quick grading tool for formative AND summative assessment. What are Steven’s favorite formative assessment tools? Formative assessment options can save you time.

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Edsurge

MAY 14, 2019

A chance to help students today who share those same feelings has kept Pasari motivated as CEO of Cialfo (pronounced “see-al-foe”), a Singapore-based company that helps students with college admissions. Cialfo started in 2012 as an independent in-person education consultancy, later adding the software side of the business.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 10, 2019

After two “salvage operations” where she turned around struggling companies, Susan Kim wanted a break from the fervor of startup life. But when she got a call a year ago about an education company with a vibrant community of teachers, she reconsidered. At the time of its sale to NetDragon, the company reported a loss of $19.5

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2017

For Najera, websites on the internet do not provide enough information for educators to make final decisions on technology, so he traveled to the event in San Antonio to see and interact with the tools in person. She is following some of the tutoring companies at ISTE, noting that many are seeking partnerships with United States companies.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Created by hand2mind in 2012, Hands-On Standards reinforces key, grade-level math concepts and helps students deepen their understanding with hands-on manipulatives and activities. Bush, where he helped bring attention to important issues in the education field. EST (3:45 p.m.

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eSchool News

APRIL 12, 2023

Launched in 2012 by two visionary educators, the platform provides users with more than 10,000 authentic, interactive video-based science interactives crafted by Pivot’s expert curriculum team and teacher community. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., It is an excellent choice for our students.”

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The CoolCatTeacher

JANUARY 17, 2018

Screencastify is the screencasting tool I recommend for Google Chrome and Chromebooks. Screencastify is an essential tool for making flipped lessons, student videos and creative formative assessments. I use this tool when students are making Scratch video games for them to record their games and explain their scripts.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 4, 2019

The company’s latest deal involves something a little bit more invisible and behind the scenes, but what it calls “one of the most powerful tools we have in modern education.” That tool is data, and it marks the focus of Microsoft’s first edtech acquisition of 2019: DataSense , a data management platform developed by Brightbytes.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

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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Edsurge

MAY 8, 2019

Kahoot is best known for its digital quiz tools that can turn the classroom or corporate office into a raucous quiz show. Last December, following a Disney investment that valued the company at $376 million , the Oslo-based company made clear its intention to build a pipeline for acquisitions. The company also earned $1.9

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Edsurge

JANUARY 15, 2020

According to an EdSurge database of publicly announced funding deals, investment in edtech companies reached at least $1.66 based education companies that raised a round of at least $250,000. Companies that primarily offer financial and loan services that serve education as one of many markets were also not included.

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Edsurge

JUNE 9, 2020

And as they revise, they can see how long learners spent looking at that passage and other details about how they moved through the digital tool, since every action leaves breadcrumbs to analyze. Only 58% of students who started college in 2012 had graduated 6 years later. For students, this is a discouraging engagement, Lepper says.

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