Edsurge

FEBRUARY 26, 2018

portion of its K-12 business, which includes print and digital curriculum and instructional materials. In its latest earnings update, the company confirmed that it is indeed moving ahead with such plans. The publisher sold The Financial Times and its stake in The Economist in 2015. It still retains a 25 percent holding.)

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Pearson Chegg Company Instructional Materials 98

Edsurge

DECEMBER 4, 2018

Last summer, the San Francisco-based company invited several dozen educational publishers and organizations to create and sell materials to Quizlet users, as part of a closed beta program. Today, the company announced it is inviting any content creator, including individual educators, to apply for its Premium Content program.

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Pearson Kaplan Company Education 93

Marketplace K-12

MARCH 9, 2016

The investment company Weld North Holdings LLC today announced its acquisition of Performance Matters, a student assessment and data analytics company that it will merge with Truenorthlogic, a K-12 ed-tech business focused on continuous educator improvement. See also: Fast-Growing Private Education Companies Make Inc.

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Kaplan Company Data Industry 40

eSchool News

FEBRUARY 5, 2016

The study compared classrooms in which teachers opted to use the Front Row technology, and those that did not over the course of the 2014-2015 school year. In addition to the Front Row math program, the company also provides a language arts program through Front Row ELA, which include both writing and reading components.

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Study Instructional Materials Outcomes Analysis 40

Marketplace K-12

APRIL 21, 2016

The market for digital instruction materials will likely grow by $1.1 billion between 2015 and 2020 in the U.S. Last year, funding for ed-tech companies in China doubled, for instance. . “We have to see why,” he said. Billion Market Predicted. alone, Gates predicted. Interest in education outside the U.S.

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Industry Personalized Learning Instructional Materials Blended Learning 40

The CoolCatTeacher

JULY 20, 2017

Another 2015 study shows that only 30% of teachers improve substantially with PD. Coming back from GAETC 2015, I realized that I had been to the conference before but my classroom was unchanged. Often a life coach doesn’t even work for the company of the person they are coaching. Microcredits and Badges.

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Edcamps Game-Based Learning Conference Differentiated Instruction 287

Iterating Toward Openness

JANUARY 13, 2017

The unfettered sharing enabled by digital resources presents humanity’s best hope for achieving education for all, yet all major education companies work proactively to undermine this capability. Creative Commons (2015). download, duplicate, store, and manage your own copy). Adopting OER is a completely different experience.

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OER Resources Education Pearson 60