eSchool News

AUGUST 9, 2023

Then there was the $95 million payroll system snafu back in 2008. Billion iPad Fiasco in 2015 ? It was even greater to hear it from industry veteran, Elliott Levine, Qualcomm’s Director of Worldwide Education, the company that commissioned the research from Project Tomorrow , and who always provides a great interview.

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The CoolCatTeacher

JUNE 9, 2020

Creating Successful Grading and Reporting Systems. Finalist for Book of the Year Award in Education, Foreword Reviews, 2015. Regardless, I only recommend products or services I believe will be good for my readers and are from companies I can recommend. This company has no impact on the editorial content of the show.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2020

Here is a recap of the biggest and most popular edtech business stories of 2020. The maker of the Canvas learning management system, which went public in 2015, announced a $2-billion offer from private equity firm Thoma Bravo last December. It may not be the only publicly traded edtech company to be taken private.

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Edsurge

JULY 22, 2021

Instructure is officially a publicly-traded company—again. Officials from the company, which makes the Canvas learning-management system used at many colleges and schools, rang the opening bell at the New York Stock Exchange today, marking its IPO.

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The CoolCatTeacher

MARCH 3, 2021

She shares the WHO system for evaluating technology, tips for hybrid learning, and timeless principles for considering digital equity and relating to your students and colleagues in professional and respectful ways. Digital Equity: How to Understand The Problems Facing #Edtech. Teachers are stressing over so many things. ” .

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 18, 2019

As Pearson resumes its education technology investment activity, the publisher is also divesting other edtech assets at the same time. million in two companies: online bootcamp Springboard and Knowledge to Practice, a medical startup. All 16 staff formerly on that Pearson team will make the transition to the new company.

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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Edsurge

MARCH 14, 2022

Over the last few months, biotech company Theranos has re-entered the conversation due to a slew of newsworthy happenings—the Elizabeth Holmes trial finally came to an end with four of 11 charges of fraud, and Hulu announced The Dropout’s debut while Apple Original Films’s Bad Blood is currently in production. Money came flowing.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Some companies and services became obsolete without the availability of face-to-face experiences. The company, founded in 2015, had enjoyed steady, if not quite astronomical, growth prior to the pandemic. The company employed 25 people. Others found their footholds and took off. And boom—Outschool took off.

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Edsurge

JUNE 5, 2019

An attendance system to fight absenteeism. A platform for students to create and run revenue-earning companies. These are three of the eight companies in the fifth and latest class entering the AT&T Aspire Accelerator , now in its fifth year of operation. Hundreds of companies continue to apply each year.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 20, 2021

PowerSchool is best known for its K-12 student information system, which is the most widely used of its kind among U.S. But it has been actively expanding its portfolio, purchasing nearly a dozen edtech companies over the past five years. based company claims it serves more than 45 million students in more than 80 countries.

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Edsurge

JUNE 19, 2017

Yet that’s not the case for Hero K12 , which is announcing, rather bluntly, that it is going on a shopping spree to buy education technology companies. based company is BV Investment Partners , which is giving Hero K12 $150 million to spend on making acquisitions. Making this possible for the Miami Lakes, Fla.-based

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Illuminate Education will stop support for its student information system in two years, before the 2021 school year. In an email sent Tuesday morning, the company notified customers to plan for a replacement for the Illuminate Student Information product, also known as ISI. Illuminate , based in Irvine, Calif.,

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Doug Levin

SEPTEMBER 4, 2017

Google – which maintains close ties to the think tank – was alleged to pressure New America to push out a scholar and his team after they made a series of sharp statements about the behavior of the company. Heck, you should see what surprises my inbox holds some days: (I did not take the company up on its offer.).

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 18, 2017

From bigwig financiers to bankers, along with heads of private and publicly-traded education technology companies, the gathering attracted around 900 attendees last week to share the opportunities and challenges in the industry this year. The previous year, 2015, set a record for education technology investments with over $3.1

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 30, 2019

To date, our education systems sit atop a cultural assumption—that information is scarce. Our higher education system formed around libraries. Our primary and secondary education systems formed around teachers imparting knowledge. Distance reduction allow companies to compete worldwide.

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eSchool News

JUNE 15, 2023

The funding round was led by funds advised by Apax Partners LLP (“Apax”), a leading global private equity advisory firm, and by edtech investment firm Reach Capital. We’re incredibly excited to be partnering with Mike and the broader team to help grow the business and execute on our joint vision for the company.”

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Edsurge

MARCH 18, 2020

Instead of company founders presenting to crowds at a venue in the San Francisco Bay Area, they provided one-slide presentations, a company description and biographies of employees for a Y Combinator website. Here’s a look at some of the education-related companies “presenting” among the 197 companies in YC’s winter 2020 batch.

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Doug Levin

JULY 24, 2017

Since the last edition of a ‘Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News”: I’ve joined efforts to support Net Neutrality protections ; Written further about the prediction made in the book, “Disrupting Class.” A Thinking Person’s Guide to EdTech News (2017 Week 28 and 29 Combined Edition).

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Edsurge

MARCH 6, 2019

A company best known (and sometimes rebuked) for its plagiarism checker has just received one of the biggest checks in the education technology industry. Over the years, it saw the most success in education and the company shifted to focus specifically on that market. The founders had to bootstrap the company in its early days.

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Edsurge

JULY 11, 2019

When deciding whether a company is viable to be bought, CareMonkey president Peter Bencivenga says the magic number is 90 percent. That number refers to customer retention rate, and Bencivenga said he’s called off potential acquisitions when a company’s performance in this department isn’t up to snuff. We were doing $3.5

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eSchool News

APRIL 16, 2021

The new financing allows the company to accelerate the growth of the digital offering of curriculum programs and teacher training to reach millions across the globe. We are not trying to “export” Finnish society or even the educational system as such, but the deep knowhow and methods about how children learn. practica.vc. About Tesi.

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Edsurge

JUNE 18, 2017

My bet is that by 2040, our children will look back on this period between 2015 and 2030 in education technology much the same way internet historians look to the period 1995 to 2010 as the birth of the commercial web. More than 80 percent of the edtech startups created in the past five years will not survive through 2020.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 10, 2017

billion purchase of Lynda.com and Instructure’s initial public offering, both of which took place in 2015. These statistics offer a somber reminder that the edtech industry does not produce quick, home run hits. Other EdSurge stories about edtech venture capital. 2016 US Edtech Funding Totals $1 Billion.

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Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2019

Instructure, best known for its Canvas learning management system, announced Wednesday that it is set to be acquired by the private equity firm Thoma Bravo for approximately $2 billion—unless a better offer comes along in the next 35 days. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S. Canvas has the largest market share in the U.S.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 27, 2016

While many schools and districts continue to use existing learning management systems, such as Blackboard, Canvas , Moodle and Schoology , Google’s Classroom platform is increasingly catching teachers’ eyes. In short, Classroom wants to be a lightweight learning management system.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

SILVER SPRING, MD (Wednesday, July 20, 2022) —Hawaii’s Kihei Elementary School today announced that it has expanded its partnership with Discovery Education, which has supported the school’s educators in creating engaging digital learning environments since 2015. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., Twitter and?

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 31, 2019

Instructure’s third quarter performance left some investors beaming, but the company’s long term strategy appears more muddy. For one, the CEO of the learning management system provider didn’t shirk away from a possible sale of its corporate LMS, Bridge, which launched in 2015. The company reported $68.3 million and $258.1

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ViewSonic Education

AUGUST 14, 2019

Once used by almost every major tech company to create computer content Flash is being replaced by more modern and open platforms. No updates for operating systems and browsers. Many teachers are still using EdTech that is generations behind other schools. Adobe Flash software after 2020. This means: No bugs being fixed.

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Edsurge

MAY 7, 2019

With support from Google.org, the company’s philanthropic arm, Quill hopes to fine-tune its AI to automatically deliver more precise feedback for students as they work through its exercises. Currently, human editors manually grade sentences to create a data set that is used to train the AI system. As the U.S.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

In the heartland of America, one company is raising big bucks in a bid to capture this lucrative market. Louis-based company’s $50 million Series B round, which closed in November 2015. Already boasting 4,000 tutors covering 1,000 subjects, the company is on the hunt for more teachers.

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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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edWeb.net

JUNE 18, 2015

At ISTE 2015, Common Sense Education will provide a sneak preview of the latest version of Graphite, designed to help educators learn fundamental edtech teaching skills. Connect with CDW*G during ISTE 2015. Make the most of your time at ISTE 2015 and join us for our onsite Executive Briefing sessions. dreambox learning.

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Edsurge

NOVEMBER 23, 2021

Containing nearly 30,000 financial-aid opportunities painstakingly researched over several decades, the database that powered the Reference Service Press book-publishing company faced an uncertain future when Schlachter died in 2015. asked Drew Magliozzi, CEO and co-founder of the startup, which is now called Mainstay.

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Kitaboo on EdTech

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

The EdTech industry rose to the occasion and introduced education products to supplement in-person learning. Furthermore, the adoption of EdTech has presented an opportunity for companies to build products that cater to evolving needs of users. The industry has matured over time and seen tremendous investments.

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Edsurge

SEPTEMBER 17, 2019

In conversations with edtech investors, some reported that the K-12 market has seen an influx of instructional content, particularly in the form of open educational resources (OERs). The trend has won admirers in the upper echelon of the education system as well. Through the #GoOpen initiative, launched in 2015, the U.S.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). Yet that’s not all.

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