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How to Build a High-Functioning Remote Team for Your Edtech Company

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Employees report higher productivity , greater efficiency and less stress , while companies can benefit from lower real estate costs and an expanded talent pool. My former company, Big Universe ( now acquired ) was a fully-virtual operation. We were small, but often credited for operating like a nimble, large company.

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Renaissance Learning Buys Freckle Education to Expand Math Offerings

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At a time of major change at educational software and assessments provider Renaissance Learning executives decided to add one more item to their to-do list. The company had bought the myON digital reading platform that March to beef up their company’s literacy offerings. Two years later, the company raised $5.3

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MasteryConnect Cuts 30 Percent of Staff, Brings Co-Founder Mick Hewitt Back as CEO

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But when funding dries up and profits remain elusive, companies have to make tough cuts. Back in the driver’s seat is Mick Hewitt, who co-founded the company in 2009 and served as its first CEO. He adds: “As a venture-funded company, there’s been a decision to get to profitability in the next nine to 12 months.” billion in U.S.

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We Know SEL Skills Are Important, So How the Heck Do We Measure Them?

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Today, they are committed to assessing students’ progress towards SEL mastery, which they see as essential to understanding where students are at—and to proving their SEL curriculum works. But assessing non-academic skills, it turns out, is no easy task. At Nueva, when it comes to assessment, standards-based grading is king.

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Tennessee Gives Pearson ‘Emergency’ Test Scoring Contract, Seeks New Vendor

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million for scoring 2015-16 assessments in Tennessee after the state terminated a contract in April with Measurement Inc. Pearson, a global education company that counts assessments as less than 10 percent of its total revenues , will score about 1.8 The company offered a competitive price comparable to what Measurement, Inc.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

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Progress reports go out on Thursday and the teachers are up in arms because they can’t enter scores into their online gradebook. And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. The company agreed—and made it happen.

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Illuminate Education’s SchoolCity Product Suite Improves Efficiency with Certification from IMS Global Learning Consortium

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These products assist educators with content creation, assessment, student achievement and more. Illuminate Education’s SchoolCity products have earned IMS conformance certification to the latest versions of the following IMS Global standards: ? SchoolCity’s OpenSalt v1, Popcorn v0.1, and Suites v4.1, and 6+ have all earned.