Edsurge

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Being nerdy pays off, and soon there will be another education technology company on the public market. Nerdy, the parent company of Varsity Tutors , an online tutoring platform, will be acquired by TPG Pace Tech Opportunities, a special purpose acquisition company. In 2020, users logged over 4.7 Louis Post-Dispatch.

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The Hechinger Report

JANUARY 8, 2024

public schools say they’re offering high-dosage tutoring and more than one out of 10 students (11 percent) are receiving it this 2023-24 school year. Only about 500 students signed up out of more than 34,000 who were eligible, according to a June 2023 report from MDRC, an outside research organization. Here are four lessons.

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eSchool News

JULY 20, 2022

Through this new phase of collaboration, educators at Kihei Elementary School will add Mystery Science , an award-winning digital resource for K-5 teachers and students, to their suite of Discovery Education resources used across the school during the 2022-2023 school year. Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc.,

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Edsurge

JANUARY 26, 2024

From idea to scale, Catapult helps companies shape, develop and deploy innovative, proven solutions to meet critical educational challenges. When schools shuttered in the spring of 2020, more than 1 billion students worldwide shifted to online instruction in less than one month. It’s been a wild ride. billion in 2021.

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Edsurge

APRIL 19, 2022

Last week, for example, Lumen Learning, a company that sells low-cost OER textbooks and courseware, announced it received a $5 million grant from the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation. Officials plan to make an OER Statistics 101 course available by 2023. Officials plan to make an OER Statistics 101 course available by 2023.

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eSchool News

MARCH 7, 2023

NEW YORK — Social-first media company, The News Movement (TNM) today announced a new partnership with EXPLR Media (EXPLR), an organization which produces and shares educational videos and curriculum for students in the US. The two companies will collaborate on developing educational news content aimed at grade 7-12 children.

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The CoolCatTeacher

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Every time I try to leave it, I end up back in January 2023, it was acquired by a company called Bending Spoons, a very reputable software company out of Europe. They have over 100 mil users on all their apps, so they did just release in January 2020 for a new interface. I've been using it for a long time.

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The Hechinger Report

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

In 2023, Diamond Harriel was looking to make a career switch. It started in 2023 after Rochester Mayor Kim Norton won a $1 million grant from the Bloomberg Philanthropies Global Mayors Challenge. When the 2020 recession hit, one thing had become apparent to Norton: Women of color were bearing the brunt of it.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 4, 2023

As 2022 turns into 2023, EdSurge asked educators and education leaders to share reflections on learning “lost” and “gained.” As our new normal continues on and we begin 2023, I’m reflecting on what my students and I lost in 2022—and what we’ve gained. Since March 2020, we’ve seen so much change.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 31, 2023

Charlotte, NC — Discovery Education , a global education technology company backed by Clearlake Capital Group, L.P. and TPG’s The Rise Fund will retain minority stakes in the company. and TPG’s The Rise Fund will retain minority stakes in the company. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Discovery, Inc.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

In 2020, after the onset of the pandemic, the program was created to provide funding to schools and libraries to purchase eligible equipment and services for students and teachers who lack connected devices, including laptops, tablets, or even broadband access.

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Edsurge

JANUARY 23, 2020

Learning management system provider Instructure has laid off as many as 100 full-time employees as the publicly traded company nears a key shareholder vote on a proposed sale to a private equity firm. Now, the company wants to accept a $2 billion dollar acquisition offer from Thoma Bravo. “As Securities and Exchange Commission.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 14, 2023

Nominations for the annual eSchool News K-12 Hero Awards are open through September 1, 2023, and this year, we’re giving you a look at some of the entries that came in by our early-bird deadline. Elementary and high school students from across the district were part of the initial program. NWEA MAP points on average.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 3, 2022

Forty percent of the nation’s school systems need to replace at least half of their HVAC systems, according to a 2020 study by the Government Accountability Office. The original ESSER and GEER funds are available until 9/30/2022 while a second round of funding is available until 9/30/2023.

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eSchool News

MAY 29, 2023

Launched in 2023, the program supports past participants and future scientists as part of the 3M Young Scientist Challenge ( #YoungScientist ). The 2023 3M Young Scientist Challenge Alumni Grants Program recipients across three funding areas are as follows: Braeden Benedict is a 26-year-old from Missouri and a 2011 finalist.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 4, 2024

Lauren Koehler, executive director of San Francisco Unified School District’s Enrollment Center, invites a family from the waiting room to a counseling session in a sunny conference room two days before the start of the 2023-24 school year. When she joined SFUSD in 2020, her husband struck out into private practice. “I

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

16 Moreover, schools often face complex logistical issues when it comes to training tutors properly, 17 rescheduling the school day to fit in a tutoring block, and vetting tutoring services run by outside companies. Jill Barshay, “PROOF POINTS: Taking stock of tutoring,” The Hechinger Report, February 27, 2023, available at [link].

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Edsurge

MARCH 7, 2023

Amira is the invention of Amira Learning, a six-year-old edtech company that fuses voice-based artificial intelligence into reading activities, guided by an eponymous AI bot. Between May and June of 2020, our students had collectively read 77,000 minutes on the Amira platform. “Keep going,” Amira says, softly.

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 23, 2023

Then, in March 2020, schools across the globe closed their doors, quickly pivoting to online instruction. Apply today for the AWS Education Accelerator To help accelerate innovation in education for edtech companies, AWS has launched the new AWS Education Accelerator. Applications are being actively accepted through November 17, 2023.

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eSchool News

JANUARY 10, 2024

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 It was out on the fringes,” said Lexia President, Nick Gaehde who joined the company as its head in 2005.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In 2020, Forbes named MindLabs the STEM product with the best hands-on and AR integration, and in January 2023, FETC awarded MindLabs first place at Pitchfest in the Immersive Technology category. MindLabs’ AR technology is funded, in part, by the National Science Foundation and the National Institutes of Health.

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Educational Technology and Mobile Learning

JANUARY 12, 2023

In 2023, Chinese New Year will fall on Sunday, January 22. For instance, the lunar year 2023 which starts on January 22 is the year of the Rabbit. 1934, 1946, 1958, 1970, 1982, 1994, 2006, 2018, 2030), you are likely to be a person who is loyal, loves to snuggle, is attentive to details, and loves company.

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eSchool News

APRIL 1, 2024

Past Words of the Year have represented a range of culturally and socially significant terms, including hallucinate (2023), woman (2022), allyship (2021), and pandemic (2020). The platform also chooses a Word of the Year that reflects how language intersects with the most important current events and trends.

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edWeb.net

JANUARY 1, 2024

edWeb.net turned 15 in 2023! It’s been an incredible journey for the company and for me personally, as the founder. Then in 2020, the COVID pandemic forced everyone to switch to virtual learning and collaboration. So many things have changed in the past 15 years.

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The Hechinger Report

MARCH 1, 2024

The district rolled out the class in fall 2020, in an attempt to offer an alternative math course to students who might struggle in traditional junior and senior math courses such as Algebra II, Pre-Calculus and Calculus. Calculus simultaneously to prepare for computer engineering courses in college.

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eSchool News

AUGUST 10, 2023

Following their successful debut in LISA Academy classrooms, the charter district renewed the following Discovery Education services for the 2023-2024 school year: Discovery Education Experience. Inspired by the global media company Warner Bros. Mystery Science. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5 Discovery, Inc.

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eSchool News

MARCH 2, 2023

The Women’s History Month theme for 2023 is “Celebrating Women Who Tell Our Stories.”In Inspired by the global media company Discovery, Inc., This high-quality content highlights the accomplishments of women STEM leaders and encourages girls to see themselves in future STEM careers. Discovery Education serves approximately 4.5

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The Hechinger Report

AUGUST 22, 2023

As schools and testing centers shut down in spring 2020, it seemed only fair for colleges and universities to suspend ACT and SAT admissions requirements. Massachusetts Institute of Technology, a school focused on science and mathematics, will once again require test scores beginning in fall 2023.

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MindSpark

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The World Economic Forum predicts that 85 million jobs in roles like data entry, accounting clerks, and secretaries are likely to be displaced from 2020 to 2025, 97 million new jobs are likely to be created, such as artificial intelligence specialists, data scientists, and information security analysts. Externships bridge that gap.

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Edsurge

JUNE 27, 2019

For McCarthy, it was a small sign among many that international countries like India had become powerful markets for corporate training companies like Degreed. “A Companies outside the U.S. To date, the San Francisco-based company has raised about $140 million. are now 20 percent.”

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Edsurge

OCTOBER 3, 2018

The company, which is based in Oakland, counts LinkedIn and PathSource among its competitors. They are a collection of all the documents the company has compiled on a single scientific concept. Forefront offers in-person trainings, ranging from teaching companies about implicit bias to helping them recruit better.

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eSchool News

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Read about the three 2023 winners here. In addition to her role as Content Lead for Libraries, Michelle served as President of the Iowa School Association of School Librarians in 2022, and Past President in 2023. Principal Rod Ruth was named South Carolina’s 2023 Secondary Principal of the Year.

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The Hechinger Report

MAY 25, 2023

Politicians including former President Barack Obama and companies like IBM and Google have called for workplaces to eliminate de facto degree requirements, which take years to earn. LCCC also offers a one-year Earn and Learn program that combines classroom work and an apprenticeship with a local company.

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eSchool News

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The good news is that corporate leaders don’t need to look far for inspiration, as some companies have already gotten started, including Microsoft’s partnership with the Norwegian Refugee Council to deliver technology for education projects, or Google’s push to expand technological access for underserves communities.

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The Learning Revolution Has Begun

JULY 6, 2023

I only truly started using image-generating AI tools around 2020. She also won a 2023 Pearson National Teaching Award for digital innovator of the year. I have been using AI in one form or another since I began making art on computers in the 1990s.

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Shake Up Learning

MARCH 14, 2023

Right now, tech companies own AI. AI in Schools and Classrooms Edweek shared in a 2020 article , In education, AI can be found in learning analytic platforms, online courseware, voice assistants, and support structures within other apps. These companies have HUGE data mines, which will only make AI more powerful.

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The Hechinger Report

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Lisa Grant accepted the job as superintendent of Centralia schools in January 2020. By the time she formally started, in July 2020, the coronavirus pandemic had upended public education. It also failed in August 2020, a month after she’d started. billion in March 2020 to cover unanticipated costs.

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