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Chinese Edtech Sees $1.86B in Q1 2019, Bucking Plummeting Venture Trend

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Education investments showed modest growth in the first quarter of 2019, even as venture investing in China in all other sectors dropped sharply. From January through March 2019, 131 China edtech ventures raised more than $1.86 secured a $15 million Series A round to further develop its STEM platform for preschool students.

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How Improving Student Feedback and Teaching Data Science Restored Our Classroom Culture

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Little did I know that by 2019 I would find a way to apply the data science strategies I learned as a geologist to bring joy and engagement back to my classroom. I wanted to go back to my previous life as a geologist, where everything was quantifiable and the path forward was always revealed through methodical data analysis.

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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. The last half of WeWork’s 2019 was an unmitigated disaster. CZI took over the engineering of the learning management system from Facebook in 2017.). Common Wood Pigeon. WeGrow and WeWork.

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