Edsurge

APRIL 30, 2019

Historically that involves bringing some form physical identification, but increasingly companies and institutions are turning to face recognition, fingerprinting and voice biometrics. The Boston-based company passed its own test of sorts today: securing a $90 million investment from private equity firm Great Hill Partners.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 8, 2017

edWeb.net just completed an analysis of their 2016 webinar viewership stats for 2016. The professional learning community hosted 260 PD webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar. Next page: 7 more of the top early learning PD webinars of 2016).

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Edsurge

MAY 16, 2018

The firm plans to invest up to $5 million into Series A, Series B and recapitalization rounds for education companies serving pre-kindergarten to professional learners, with a focus on digital learning, learning sciences, analytics and workforce development services. The firm aims to invest in up to another seven U.S.

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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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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 3, 2020

Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. After reading about a similar program in Colorado, Kirk and Gentry developed the Readiness Bus program in 2016. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. Photo: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. MANCHESTER, Ky.—

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Edsurge

AUGUST 1, 2018

Imagine is owned by Weld North Education, a private equity firm that has amassed a portfolio of more than 10 education technology companies over the years. Technology companies including Google, Oracle and Cisco also gave support through providing hardware and database services. 31 that year). million in the previous fiscal year to $3.2

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Edsurge

JULY 2, 2018

Grand Canyon Education, a publicly-traded education company, announced today it has sold Grand Canyon University for $875 million to form a nonprofit. In 2014 officials at the company announced plans to turn the university back to a nonprofit. The Phoenix-based university was founded in 1949 as a nonprofit Christian college.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 5, 2018

For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. The former Kaplan executive, who served as its CEO from 1994 to 2008, oversaw 67 acquisitions that turned the test-prep business into a global education services provider. Yet that’s not all.

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Edsurge

MAY 24, 2017

The company—whose partners include Chipotle, Denver Public Schools and Public Service credit union—helps employers offer education-as-a-benefit by teaming up with institutions such as Colorado State and Bellevue University and offer programs ranging from GEDs to master's degrees. They also get opportunities to apply for federal financial aid.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 20, 2017

The 2016 results are in. edWeb.net just completed an analysis of their 2016 webinar viewership stats for 2016. They hosted 260 professional learning webinars in 2016 that were viewed by 165,000 educators – an average of 635 educators per webinar. Who is participating the most in professional learning webinars?

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Edsurge

JULY 24, 2017

edtech companies last year, the dollars returned with a fury during the first six months of 2017. edtech startups is already at 88 percent of the total in 2016 ( which was $1 billion ). Several private-equity-backed companies have invested heavily in the “platform” approach. After a dip in dealflow and venture capital to U.S.

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Marketplace K-12

JUNE 11, 2016

Publishers and education companies can come to the aid of struggling schools in a number of ways that would support both students and teachers, a nationally recognized principal told a room full of business executives gathered here on Wednesday. Philadelphia.

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Marketplace K-12

JANUARY 25, 2016

The partnership represents McGraw-Hill Education’s latest investment in digital research and development; the company estimates that it invested $175 million in digital development and operations in 2015. The program will begin with selected ventures in May 2016. The Aspire Accelerator application is open thru Feb.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 17, 2016

work with Best Buy, Kaplan and Khan Academy. Of course we’d be thrilled to see innovative ideas and even companies emerge from this, but the goal for the grants program is to help students and faculty discover our cloud and do incredible things,” Bout says. acknowledges the trend in students founding startup companies out of college.

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Edsurge

FEBRUARY 11, 2019

Little did they know then that the first word in its name would become a fitting pun for the private equity firm’s consolidation of education companies. Last week, the firm announced what will be its 14th deal: Glynlyon , a digital curriculum company based in Chandler, Ariz. Founded in 1977, Glynlyon consists of two product divisions.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

APRIL 20, 2020

She also holds two Master of Science Degrees in Higher Education minoring in Teaching and Learning and Online Technology from Kaplan University now Purdue University. In 2013 Candy received the honor of being awarded Educator-of-the-Year at the Maryland Campus of Kaplan University. He is a Google Certified Innovator, Bammy!

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Edsurge

MARCH 1, 2017

During this 60 minute session, AdmitHub CEO Andrew Magliozzi will reveal insights from his company’s 2016 trial with Georgia State University, where a chatbot exchanged 185,000 messages with more than 3,100 students. Companies like Microsoft, Facebook and Google are all dipping their toes into virtual and augmented reality.

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The Hechinger Report

OCTOBER 9, 2019

By 2016, annual expenses had begun outpacing operating revenues by $14 million. Pace University, for example, has a deal with AT&T, Verizon and a coalition of other companies to train network technicians in the telecommunications industry. When Steve Thorsett crunched the numbers, things looked grim. Business was flagging.

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Edsurge

AUGUST 22, 2016

based company laid off 22 of its 104 employees, amounting to 21 percent of its team. The company offers online courses in business, design and web and mobile programming. The company has raised more than $12 million in venture capital. It last raised $7 million in a Series B round led by Kaplan Ventures.

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Digital Promise

SEPTEMBER 21, 2016

At the September 2016 Summit to Expand Research Use in Education , educators, technology developers, and researchers met to address an essential question: How can we work together to expand research use in the design, development, and improvement of education programs, products, and practices? Credit: Lane Change Consulting. Moving Forward.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Check out Bryant’s other interviews with Eddie Watson at the University of Georgia and Larry Rudman of Kaplan University. Gates Bryant ( @cgatesbryant ) is a partner with Tyton Partners, an advisory firm that provides investment banking and strategy consulting services to companies, organizations and investors.

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Edsurge

APRIL 27, 2017

Purdue University agreed today to buy one of the largest for-profit universities, Kaplan University, and turn it into a public, non-profit university in the Purdue system. The news emerged Thursday morning when Graham Holdings Company, which owns Kaplan, made an SEC filing disclosing plans for the sale. for the next 30 years.

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Hack Education

JULY 22, 2017

Within the past week, two well-known and well-established coding bootcamps have announced they’ll be closing their doors: Dev Bootcamp, owned by Kaplan Inc., and The Iron Yard, owned by the Apollo Education Group (parent company of the University of Phoenix). Two closures might not make a trend … yet.

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Hack Education

SEPTEMBER 2, 2016

Chopra worked at the CFPB and, while there, “sued two for-profit-college companies – ITT Educational Services Inc. ” It’s now unclear, observers say, if the FTC can regulate companies like Google or Verizon. ” Via Inside Higher Ed : “ Kaplan Will Offer Free Online PSAT Prep.”

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Hack Education

JANUARY 5, 2018

. “A TurboTax for student loan applications” according to Techcrunch, the company has raised $15.5 Edsurge reports that Weld North Education will still be run by former Kaplan exec Jonathan Grayer. million total. ” Research, “Research,” and Reports. ” Icon credits: The Noun Project

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Hack Education

JANUARY 12, 2018

Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. awards debt collection contract to company with ties to DeVos.” ” Via Buzzfeed : “Here’s How A Student Loan Debt Relief Company Preyed On Its Customers.” ” The company: the Student Loan Assistance Center.

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Hack Education

MAY 5, 2017

” Via Politico : “A complex legal battle involving dozens of debt collection companies fighting over contracts with the Education Department has essentially suspended the government’s ability to collect defaulted student loans , the Trump administration disclosed in a court filing on Monday night.”

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Hack Education

AUGUST 31, 2018

Prior to the department spending $6 million on iPads, Apple spent more than $5300 on meals and lodging for state Superintendent Mark Johnson and five other education officials to visit the company’s HQ. Learn-to-code company Codeverse has raised $10 million in seed funding from Listen Ventures.

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Hack Education

AUGUST 24, 2018

” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ For-Profit Companies With the Highest Enrollments at Their Colleges, Fall 2016.” ” There are more stories about Purdue University Global, formerly the for-profit Kaplan University, in the “labor and management” section below.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Boundless’s materials have been archived by David Wiley’s company Lumen Learning. And “free” doesn’t last.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 9, 2016

According to an investigation by The Associated Press , “dozens of those hired by the company had checkered pasts – including serious financial problems and even convictions for cocaine trafficking or child molestation.” million from the company between 2010 and 2015 before he stepped down from his role there.

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Hack Education

JUNE 29, 2018

The former: Purdue University ; the latter: Kaplan University. Department of Education officials sent a letter to DeVry University ’s parent company, Adtalem Global Education Inc. ” Via Fast Company : “The case against teaching kids to be polite to Alexa.” ” asks Edsurge. million, up from $4.3

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The Hechinger Report

JUNE 6, 2016

On Thursday, March 24, 2016, a San Francisco Superior Court judge awarded the state a nearly $1.2 The parent company of the Art Institute is shuttering 15 campuses. Two big companies, Kaplan and DeVry, quit APSCU last year. In this April 28, 2015 file photo, students wait outside Everest College in Industry, Calif.,

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Hack Education

FEBRUARY 23, 2018

” Oh sure sure, this isn’t exactly education technology news, except for the part where Khosla invests in education technology companies and his wife founded the open education organization CK–12. Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “As Kaplan Sale Faces Final Hurdle, Purdue President Criticizes Faculty Opponents.”

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 17, 2017

” I’ve looked at how for-profit colleges , MOOCs , and learn-to-code companies have tapped into these narratives in order to justify their products and services. Code.org is backed by a long list of technology companies – from AT&T to Amazon to Facebook to Google to Verizon. (I’ll Bootcamp or Bust.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 4, 2017

The Center for American Progress also took a look “Inside the Financial Holdings of Billionaire Betsy DeVos,” and the list of education- and tech-related investments is long: KinderCare Education, the childcare company. Theranos, the troubled blood-testing company. The for-profit college company Sextant Education.

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