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

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One such provider, Acrobatiq, was acquired in 2018. Already, the Sydney, Australia-based company has pulled back on its social media presence. 31, 2020 , and the platform will likely shutter before then, says Ben-Naim, who adds that he and a small staff will help customers transition and move their content to another platform.

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Knewton Was Acquired For Less Than $17M, and Former CEO Brian Kibby Has Left

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When Wiley announced back in May that it had acquired Knewton, both companies kept mum on how much the deal was worth. That’s a hard hit for investors in the New York-based company, which had raised more than $180 million since its founding in 2008. For fiscal Q1 2020, ending July 31, 2019, Wiley reported $423.5

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Jeff Bezos Wants to Go to the Moon. Then, Public Education.

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And we’ve only seen the beginning—within the next few years, the company is poised to disrupt the healthcare market, become the market leader in online advertising, establish itself as a competitor to USPS, FedX and UPS, and provide global access to broadband internet through a network of satellites orbiting the planet… to name but a few examples.

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Lexia Celebrates 40th Anniversary 

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BOSTON – Lexia , a Cambium Learning Group brand , is celebrating its 40th anniversary as a leader in science of reading-based solutions. Since its founding in 1984, Lexia has grown from a small home-based business in Lincoln, Massachusetts, to a company with nearly 1,000 employees currently serving more than 6.8

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Savvas Announces its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 Earns Highest Rating from EdReports

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Savvas Learning Company , a next-generation learning solutions leader for K-12 education, is proud to announce that its enVision® Mathematics Common Core Grades 6-8 © 2021 received the highest rating from EdReports.org. Teaching with high-quality instructional materials has a direct impact on student learning outcomes.

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Deals and More Deals: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2019

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But the Denver-based company may find itself in a crowded herd, with competitors new and old jostling for a slice of the $20 billion market. (We Billion Raised in 2018 by Tony Wan And if you think that’s a big figure, just wait until you see what American edtech companies hauled in this year. K-12 courseware business—to a U.S.

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How AI Will Save Education

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Consider the following developments in artificial intelligence: In 2016, the Associated Press began outsourcing its minor-league baseball dispatches to a company called Automated Insights. Corey had me at "Greg Toppo," as I've been a fan of his since 2018 when I first read one of his earlier books.)

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