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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. It’s hard to remember now, but many industry colleagues felt edtech was a frothy market in 2017.

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Black Girls CODE Opens Tech Exploration Lab at Google Headquarters

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We’ve been working with Google to improve diversity in the STEM industry since we were founded in 2012,” says Black Girls CODE CEO Kimberly Bryant. Along with the opening of their new tech lab, CEO Kimberly Bryant announced the organization’s new Board of Directors.

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Beyond the Test: How Have We Learned This Decade?

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Google, which officially debuted Classroom in 2014, is arguably as widespread in schools as Google’s usage is in the workplace. Clever-2012. Google Classroom-2014. Nearpod-2012. Tynker-2012. These days, millions of students in the U.S. Ten K-12 School Technologies Created Since 2010. Class Dojo-2011.

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Six Sigma in Education - applying quality control systems in education

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While the methodology began in the manufacturing industry, today the Six Sigma techniques are used in virtually every type of industry. Follow me on Twitter and Google+. Note - no one is saying that we should treat students like products. Six Sigma can also be used in Education.

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Longtime Edtech Investor Reach Capital Raises $165M for Third Fund

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Few investors have watched, and fueled, the growth of the edtech industry as closely and consistently as Reach Capital , one of a handful of venture firms that has focused its investments in education technology startups for the past 10 years. That we were able to raise a third fund points to a maturation of the industry,” says Garvey.

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Can This Be the K-12 Edtech Marketplace That Finally Succeeds?

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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? In 2012, the Center received a $1.5 They have to make money so they can sustain themselves.

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Attitudes About Homeschooling May Get Unexpected Boost From a Year of Remote Learning

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For more evidence of increased pandemic appeal, the Census Bureau notes that while national homeschooling rates grew rapidly from 1999 to 2012, since then they’d held steady at about 3.3 It also struck the association and industry conferences that many execs and educators regularly attend.

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