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Popular K-12 Tool Edmodo Shuts Down

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Edmodo is permanently shuttering , the company announced late Monday. It’s no longer viable “for us to maintain the level of service you deserve and that we can take pride in ourselves,” the company wrote in an online explanation of its closure. Edmodo platform was one of my best app when I started teaching in 2013.”

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Global Ed-Tech Funding, Propelled by Big Deals, Reaches New Record

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Overall, funding for global deals in the digital space jumped by 58 percent from 2014 to 2015, according to research from CB Insights , a New York-based market research company. Another China-based company, 17zuoye , raised $100 million. The company’s name loosely translates into “homework together.”.

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Promote Executive Functioning within School Culture

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is a director at Hayutin & Associates, an educational services company in Santa Monica, California, where she manages a caseload of 75 students and provides clinical supervision to tutors and educational therapists. WATCH THE EDLEADER PANEL RECORDING. This article was modified and published by eSchool News. About the Presenter.

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The Makings (and Misgivings) of a Statewide Effort to Personalize Learning in Massachusetts

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Moodle, Schoology, Blackboard and Summit round out the top five.) It implemented a 1:1 device-to-student model in its middle schools in 2009, and expanded that to high schools in 2013. The idea that MAPLE exists to help LearnLaunch-affiliated companies sell products to schools “couldn’t be further from the truth,” says Klau.

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How Former NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s iZone Went from ‘Cool’ to Cold

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In 2013 the Gotham Gazette reported that the iZone had a budget of $47 million. million, according to the New York City Department of Education (NYCDOE), a 93 percent decrease since 2013. But it never hit that target, and now the vision has taken a U-turn under current Mayor Bill de Blasio. Today that budget is $3.2

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