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Weld North Education Acquires LearnZillion in Its First K-12 Core Curriculum Deal

Edsurge

Then, the company worked on building a library of supplemental materials and instructional videos, many created by teachers it paid. As the company pivoted to selling digital curriculum to districts, EdSurge learned that it cut 20 employees last May—which followed an earlier round of layoffs in 2017. LearnZillion had raised $32.5

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REINVENTING.SCHOOL Live Show Today - The Exploding Trend of "Pandemic Pods" and Micro-Schools #reinventingschool #learningrevolution

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

Steve Steve Hargadon LearningRevolution.com | Library 2.0 | Classroom 2.0 | GlobalEducationConference.org More about this week's guests: Lian Chikako Chang: " I'm a data storyteller. Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing, and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc.

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A Welder of Digital Curriculum Companies Buys Its Latest

Edsurge

One of them will be a complementary addition to Weld North’s portfolio: Odysseyware , a library of online courses covering career and technical education along with K-12 subjects, often used for intervention and credit recovery. Coincidentally, all three competitors are currently run by CEOs who previously worked at Kaplan, he noted.

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Child care, car seats and other simple ways to keep teen moms in school

The Hechinger Report

A slim, poised young woman with waist-length hair, Viviana walked past the principal’s office, along the main hallway, and made a left into the building that houses the school library and the daycare. Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. “My Credit: Emily Kaplan for The Hechinger Report. She motivates me a lot.”.

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Thursday's Microschool Summit - Stories of Starting Schools | Schedule Announced

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

While volunteering at an afterschool code club at the library, he got excited about the power of self-learning. Her broad experience in the education field has included sales, marketing and administrative positions with prominent companies such as Kaplan, Inc. He started a microschool around his kitchen table in January 2018.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

A New York district court awarded Elsevier US$15 million in damages for copyright infringement by Sci-Hub , the Library of Genesis (LibGen) project and related sites.” Saxberg had previously been the Chief Learning Officer at Kaplan (and Edsurge, when covering the news , fails to disclose its financial ties to Kaplan ).

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

Hack Education

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. with Pigeons.

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