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

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Its largest institutional shareholders are Insight Partners, which led its $21-million Series B round in 2017, followed by Reach Capital. Earlier this month, IXL Learning, a K-12 instructional content provider, acquired the language-learning portfolio of Rosetta Stone and tutoring marketplace Wyzant.

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

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Amongst these eight educators, edtech software such as IXL Learning and i-Ready both get lumped in with Amazon’s Alexa in the same AI bucket, despite the fact that a tool like IXL doesn’t theoretically become smarter over time as a user interacts with it.

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Who’s on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?

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Curriculum solutions designers job” at Cengage Learning. Language arts curriculum designer” at IXL Learning. What will the trends from 2017 say? Take the five most viewed job postings from last year: “Curriculum designer” at NoRedInk. Educator success job” at Better World Ed. Senior education specialist job” at Eduscape.

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What?s New: New Tools for Schools

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The adaptive Apex Learning Tutorials for intervention, remediation, and preparation for high-stakes assessments were proven to improve students’ performance on the Tutorials from pretest to posttest by more than 50% and by an average of 23 to 26 percentile points during the 2016–2017 school year.

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