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The Next Edtech IPO Might Be This London-Based Language Learning Company

Edsurge

Niesner claims the company is on track to hit $40 million in revenue in 2020. The company is still shy of the $100 million revenue threshold commonly associated with IPO-ready companies. The company reached 25 million users by 2012 and 55 million users three years later. We are one of them.” or London exchange.

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5 Ways to Build Reading Stamina in Adolescent Students

The CoolCatTeacher

In a recent news article, Andrea noted that her struggling readers in grades 7-8 used to read at a grade 5 or 6 (Barshay). There are also lots of links in this article. She has published articles in the Wisconsin English Journal and has spoken at state and national conferences on aspects of secondary literacy. May 20, 2016.

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What Happened in Ed-Tech in 2016 (And Who Paid for It)?

Hack Education

Here is a list of all the articles I wrote as part of my look at the “ Top Ed-Tech Trends ” of the year. This year, I also published a number of supplemental articles detailing the funding for each of these “trends”: How Much Venture Capital Did Ed-Tech Raise in 2016? Who’s Funding MOOCs in 2016?

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Humans, Generative AI, and Learning from Copyrighted Materials

Iterating Toward Openness

Blatantly, demonstrably untrue: the GPT3 dataset is a little over 600GB, primarily Wikipedia, Books corpuses, WebText and 2016-2019 CommonCrawl. People are even suing companies over companies over their uses of copyrighted work as training data. The Macbook Air I am typing this on has more free disk space than that.

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Looking for Ways to Improve Data Privacy in Schools? Start Here

EdTech Magazine

Those laws dramatically changed how districts, how ed tech companies, are dealing with this issue, and their awareness that it is an issue, that it is something they really need to pay attention to,” Vance said. This article is part of the "Connect IT: Bridging the Gap Between Education and Technology" series.

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How Some Edtech Companies Are Addressing a Lack of Employee Diversity

Edsurge

In an article last week , EdSurge shared a 2013 study by University of California, Berkeley economists Ross Levine and Rona Rubenstein, who analyzed the common traits of entrepreneurs and found that most entrepreneurs were white and male. The next logical question is, are those entrepreneurs’ companies any better, in terms of diversity?

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51Talk Students From China Visit NYSE To Compete In English Competition

EdNews Daily

In June 2016, it became a publicly listed company on the New York Stock Exchange (COE). You may also like the following articles: From Teachers to Students: How Education Technology Is Connecting Us On A Global Scale. How Jack Huang, CEO of 51Talk, Launched the Largest Online English Learning Company in the World.

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