Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

The Gates Foundation has backed a variety of education reform initiatives : charter schools, the Common Core State Standards, “small schools,” inBloom, teacher evaluations, and yes, “personalized learning.” But it’s down from the record-setting year in 2015 – down by about $1 billion.

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Hack Education

JULY 15, 2016

million from a business that pulled in almost $1 billion in revenue in 2015 – with no fines, penalties, or admission of wrongdoing. Testing, Testing… “ Nevada officials announced Tuesday that a common-core assessment consortium will credit the state $1.8 Which one is true? It all depends on who you ask.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2016

True, 2015 was a record-breaking year for ed-tech funding – over $4 billion by my calculations. Online education (admittedly, a very generic category): Investments include Udemy ($60,000,000), DigiSchool ($15,700,000), MasterClass ($15,000,000), UNICAF ($12,000,000), OpenClassroom ($6,740,000).

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Hack Education

JUNE 3, 2016

Via Education Week : “New Test Pitched As Alternative to Common Core-Focused High School Exams.” Udemy has raised another $60 million , this time from the South African media group Naspers (which just last month invested $15 million in the homework help site Brainly). ” (Psst.

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