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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

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Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts. The company has changed hands several times.

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Educators on Artificial Intelligence: Here's the One Thing it Can't Do Well

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But when educators have different concepts of what makes a piece of technology or tool “intelligent,” it means that a variety of tools get lumped into the AI category—even if they aren’t technically “artificially intelligent.” And because of that, Vermont superintendent Ned Kirsch is ready for the future.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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Tech & Learning Rounds Up a Summary of New Tools for Schools Software & Online ACHIEVE3000 & ICIVIC ( www.achieve3000.com IXL LEARNING CONTINUOUS DIAGNOSTIC FOR ENGLISH LANGUAGE ART S ( www.ixl.com/diagnostic/ ) IXL Learning announced the release of its Continuous Diagnostic for English language arts (ELA).

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