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Pearson Bets on Adaptive Learning (Again) With $25M Acquisition of Smart Sparrow

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Called Aero , the platform has been in the works since 2017. In its statement, the publisher said Smart Sparrow’s technology will support its capabilities in adaptive learning and add more interactive and immersive features for its digital books. Pearson officials did not respond in time for the story. million in 2018.

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ACT’s Latest Act: Investing in an Open-Source Assessment Startup

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Its latest act: making a strategic investment in Open Assessment Technologies (OAT), a San Francisco-based startup that offers open-source tools for building and delivering digital tests. Besides just being an assessment company, we’re also becoming a learning and navigation company,” Roorda tells EdSurge in an interview.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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Students also needed support when it came to the end of year state assessments. “We Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. She jumped at the opportunity to pilot the program in her school. Source: Levered.

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How Instructional Technology Coaching Can Help Teachers Create Powerful Learning Experiences

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They don’t need new learning goals that rely on a fancy new technology tool the coach or teacher wants to use. Digital Promise’s 2017 report, Exploring Coaching for Powerful Technology Use in Education , talks about what this can look like in classrooms.

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This Math Program Helped Students Blow State Test Scores Out of the Water

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Rocking the CAASPP Both schools have since experienced outstanding increases in their California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) scores. Fourth graders at Montgomery improved their CAASPP scores by 164% of the state average in the 2017/2018 school year—their first year using the platform. Source: Levered.

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2018 Halftime Ka’Ching Report: U.S. Edtech Raises $739M in Venture Funding

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This year’s first-half funding total marks a lull from the same period in 2017, which totaled $887 million spread across 58 deals. The full-year tally for 2017 reached $1.2 There are newly-funded curriculum and courseware services, games, adaptive learning platforms and study tools. By contrast, just one U.S.

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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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The two companies were also among the 10 companies that raised the most funding in 2017 as well. Rounding out the podium for top dollars raised in 2019 with $90 million is Examity , a Boston-based provider of exam proctoring tools used by colleges and universities, assessment groups, professional certification boards and employers.

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