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JULY 29, 2019

He co-founded eSped, a K-12 software suite to help districts serve special-needs students, which sold to Frontline Education in 2016, and has operated Blindfold Games since 2013 to offer accessible games to adults with visual impairments. The company says they have been downloaded over 500,000 times by 25,000 users.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 13, 2020

And one of the best ways to improve the odds of landing a particular job is to ask an employee at the company to recommend you as a top candidate. This week, a software engineer in Atlanta is willing to pay $40 for a referral at IBM, Microsoft, or Warner Media. Now, you can pay strangers on the internet to refer you for jobs.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2019

The San Francisco-based company has plans to reach more learners now that it’s raised an $11 million post-Series A financing round. Earlier this year, the company launched three programs in India, where Tambay and co-founder Parul Gupta grew up. The company says it has trained more than 14,000 students since its founding in 2013.

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Edsurge

JUNE 29, 2016

It brings together K-12 educators, companies, reporters, university professors, and students to talk about product announcements, implementation strategies and edtech trends. MAKING THE PRIVACY CUT: A 2013 Fordham study found that less than 7 percent of the district-vendor contracts restricted the sale of student information by vendors.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 9, 2016

His career also includes stops at Microsoft, Schoolnet and Kaplan. New Markets has supported 43 companies since its launch in 2003; edtech startups make more than 90 percent of its deals in the past five years, Palmer adds. He adds that New Markets has funded “a handful” of companies in this situation. (He The Fulton, Md.-based

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 17, 2018

It’s almost as if the company doesn’t realize that educators’ memories, just as students’ educational careers, are long. It’s almost as if the company doesn’t realize that educators’ memories, just as students’ educational careers, are long. It is, at least figuratively, everywhere.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2017

It’s also a time when companies of all sizes and ages announce their latest updates and tools. MICROSOFT CLASSROOM IS NO MORE. Instead, educators will be able to use Microsoft Teams in Office 365 for Education. Our bread and butter has always been middle school ELA,” a representative from the company explains. “Our

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Edsurge

AUGUST 4, 2020

In education, the shuttering of campuses and classrooms has been a windfall for purely digital companies—some of which are attracting plenty of private capital. Substitute teacher services company Swing Education is creating private homeschools. Even before then, the company had already taken a big hit. “We

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. They last did so in 2013.) Source: New Markets Education Partners.

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

WriteLab was founded in 2013 by Matthew Ramirez, then a PhD candidate at the University of California, Berkeley and Donald McQuade, a long-time English professor at the same school. They started the company to solve a challenge that they both knew well: how to provide fast and actionable feedback to writing students. Ramireze said.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

In 2013, after watching her three-year-old daughter work through phonics exercises on an iPad, it struck Scanlon that the apps at the time often did poorly measuring oral fluency. The company said it has fixed the glitch.) A few years ago, a video went viral of a child asking Alexa to play a song and getting raunchy results in return.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Upon graduating from Harvard with a Masters degree in computer science, Hadi pursued a career in technology starting at Microsoft where he rose into the executive ranks. Tech companies aren’t necessarily the ones you know. 00:09:48 Speaker 1 And you know.

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Doug Levin

APRIL 27, 2017

." Tagged on: April 28, 2017 Unroll.me's shadiness is exactly why people don't trust tech companies | Mashable → Users have a right to know exactly how and when their data is being used. And it's up to tech companies to make that clear — not bury it in privacy policies no one reads. Will It Survive Trump’s FCC?

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 15, 2016

Seattle-based software company Ranku announced today its acquisition by academic publishing company John Wiley & Sons. In 2013, co-founders and childhood friends Kim Taylor and Cecilia Retelle started Ranku out of the Kaplan EdTech Accelerator, raising $500,000 in seed funding led by Mark Cuban, GSV and Microsoft Ventures.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 15, 2016

The three major operating systems—Google’s Chrome, Apple’s Mac OS and iOS, and Microsoft’s Windows—are battling for dominance in sales, says Futuresource Consulting , the London-based research company that completed the study released earlier this month. In the U.S., according to Futuresource. percent increase.

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Marketplace K-12

OCTOBER 3, 2016

In recent dealmaking news, McGraw-Hill Education acquired Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC, a digital personalized learning company; in addition, educational content company Cengage acquired WebAssign. This is the fourth acquisition McGraw-Hill Education has made since becoming an independent company in 2013, the company noted.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2018

On the talent-acquisition side of the equation, demand—especially in the technology field–is so great that firms such as IBM , Google , Microsoft , Hubspot and a host of others are providing their own public-facing education and credentials. But wait, didn’t companies say they see talent as a top priority? The share of U.S.

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Edsurge

MAY 31, 2017

Financial details in transactions between private companies rarely see the public light. In the suit, BrightBytes claimed Hapara broke “no-shop” and confidentiality clauses to solicit a better offer from another company. The suit has been settled, and both companies are now charting independent paths.

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Learning with 'e's

JANUARY 11, 2013

The first week of 2013 saw many articles appearing on what we can expect to see this year. With the massive Consumer Electronics Show CES 2013 opening its doors last week in Las Vegas, technology news was making prime time TV all across the globe too. They are technologies for today, 2013. These are not future technologies.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 19, 2016

Back in late 2013, Barack Obama and the White House launched the ConnectED Initiative , an effort to bring almost $2 billion worth of high-quality broadband, technology and professional development to schools and districts across the U.S. Did companies fully deliver on their ConnectED promises? corporations, from Apple to Adobe.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2017

At the time, I wrote about the importance of APIs; the issues surrounding data security and privacy; the appeal of platforms for users and businesses; and the education and tech companies who were well-positioned (or at least wanting) to become education platforms. The company has raised some $77.5 Okay, okay.

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Edsurge

MARCH 28, 2017

When Apple released its first iPad seven years ago, the company thought one area it would revolutionize was education. One of the first to try it was Lynn University , in Boca Raton, Florida, which launched its own iPad initiative in 2013. Denisse Rodriguez was a freshman at Lynn at the beginning of the project in 2013.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 1, 2016

Providing hosted services rather than giving districts the software to install on their own servers is better for edtech companies; it makes their products easier and cheaper to deploy and maintain. Cybercrime is the next threat.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JUNE 23, 2020

SHOW LINK BIO: Angela Maiers has been creating and leading change in education and enterprise for 31 years, teaching every level of school from grade school to graduate school and consulting with companies around the world. She taught 4th grade at a dual-language community school outside of Washington, D.C.

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EdNews Daily

MARCH 22, 2019

In 2013-2014, the real beginning of the digital transformation, schools mostly stumbled about as they either considered or implemented a widespread acquisition of computing devices. Administrators will know they are coming through the sustainability arguments when they have reoriented themselves to think as a software company would think.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

KEYNOTE SPEAKERS, SPECIAL GUESTS, AND ORGANIZERS: Sara Jones State Librarian, Washington State Library Sara Jones previously served as the director of the Marin County Free Library since July 2013. He then served as director of research for the development of 3-2-1 Contact, a science series for 8- to 12-year-olds.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 30, 2018

What’s different about the trend today is that educational technology companies are eagerly marketing software under the “personalized learning” label. It also invested in software like ST Math and the reading program Lexia, created by the Rosetta Stone company. DeVonté Trask, 11. Lexia costs around $5,000 per year.

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EdNews Daily

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

This might seem subtle, but it is driving great wealth into the biggest companies who deliver on it like Uber, Microsoft, Apple, Amazon, Google and Disney. In 2013, she was getting twenty or more requests from new curriculum software companies a month as a member of the media.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University. He then got his Bachelors in Networking and Telecommunication from DeVry University, and while going to school worked for a company that helpe larger organizations relocate and setup new computer systems.

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Edsurge

MARCH 13, 2019

million new students have been connected to high-speed access since 2013, and 98 percent of school districts now meet the Federal Communications Commission’s 100 kpbs/student goal for internet access, there remain 2.3 million more students have access to high-speed internet than did in 2013, for a total of 44.7 In October 2018, 40.7

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

In the past, he turned his interest in technology into several successful online companies, including MyDesktop.com, which sold to Internet.com in 1999. He sits on several non-profit boards, including the Re-Inventing Schools Coalition, and on the International Advisory Council for Microsoft''s Partners in Learning program.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 27, 2017

African-Americans and Latino/Hispanics make up a tiny fraction of the overwhelmingly white, male-dominated workforce of major technology companies. based technology companies is African-American or Latino/Hispanic, and only one is a woman—Ginni Rometty, CEO of IBM. In 2013, among B.A. In 2013, among B.A.

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The CoolCatTeacher

NOVEMBER 10, 2017

In her consulting life, she has led CoSN’s Leadership for Mobile Learning initiative, developed strategic plans and content for companies, provided professional development coaching to school districts, and presented at numerous conferences. I spent 2013 traveling around the world talking to people about education.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 7, 2022

From 1976 to 1980, he worked in the research department, creating science curricula for Sesame Street and testing segments for The Electric Company, the reading series. His clients were entrepreneurs, ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices as well as insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers and banks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 23, 2022

From 1976 to 1980, he worked in the research department, creating science curricula for Sesame Street and testing segments for The Electric Company, the reading series. His clients were entrepreneurs, ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices as well as insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers and banks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

MARCH 15, 2022

From 1976 to 1980, he worked in the research department, creating science curricula for Sesame Street and testing segments for The Electric Company, the reading series. His clients were entrepreneurs, ultra-high net worth individuals and family offices as well as insurance companies, pension funds, asset managers and banks.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JANUARY 8, 2013

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