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After Layoffs, Math Curriculum Developer Reasoning Mind Sells to Weld North Education

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Multiple former Reasoning Mind employees however confirmed to EdSurge that the nonprofit underwent several rounds of layoffs throughout 2017, which affected several dozen staff. As the layoffs began in spring 2017, former employees say it became clear that finding a buyer was likely the best way to keep Reasoning Mind’s products alive.

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Edgenuity Acquires Compass Learning to Expand Online, Blended Learning Reach

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Besides the alignment of the two companies’ strategies and missions in delivering digital content, they also have similar approaches to implementation of their products, and in “making sure teachers know the computer is a tool—but only a tool—in student success,” she said. Company Exec. Politician’s Trial.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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You can read the series here: 2010 , 2011 , 2012 , 2013 , 2014 , 2015 , 2016 , 2017 , 2018 , 2019. In 2017, just a week before Christmas, the New Media Consortium abruptly announced its immediate closure “because of apparent errors and omissions by its former Controller and Chief Financial Officer.” Good for you. But that’s not my job.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Inside Higher Ed : “The IRS data retrieval tool that let financial aid applicants automatically import income information into the FAFSA won’t be restored for the current aid cycle, said James Runcie, chief operating officer of the Office of Federal Student Aid, in written testimony to Congress Wednesday.”

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Hack Education Weekly News

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Kaplan Inc has agreed to acquire the College for Financial Planning from Apollo Education Group. Looks like Kaplan Inc isn’t getting out of for-profit higher ed altogether, even with the sale of Kaplan University to Purdue.). Performance on PISA Decline Because of Common Core? ” asks Forbes.

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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Among the major trends Meeker identified for 2017: mobile advertising, gaming, and healthcare. ” (For what it’s worth, Kleiner Perkins made just one major investment in education in 2017, participating in Coursera’s $64 million round this summer. She also noted the growth of markets in China and in India.

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