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For Back to School, Savvas Supports Educators and Students With Innovative Solutions to Maximize Personalized Learning

eSchool News

PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — As students return to the classroom for the new school year, Savvas Learning Company is helping educators move learning forward with engaging, easy-to-use K-12 solutions that offer data-informed instruction and adaptive technology to take personalized learning to the next level. “A

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

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In a now-famous 1997 interview , he candidly explained why Amazon started out by selling books. Books were simply a stepping stone, the “best first thing” to sell.) In 1994, hardly anyone was buying books on the internet. Bezos, more than any other tech entrepreneur, is known to play the long game, masterfully. But they are.

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K-12 Dealmaking: McGraw-Hill Ed. and Cengage Make Acquisitions

Marketplace K-12

In recent dealmaking news, McGraw-Hill Education acquired Redbird Advanced Learning, LLC, a digital personalized learning company; in addition, educational content company Cengage acquired WebAssign. In the Asian ed-tech market, Chinese startup Zuoyebang raised $60 million in funding.

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Top 10 Education Tech Trends in 2022

Kitaboo on EdTech

Various museums and landmarks have now also started booking virtual tours. Personalized Learning . Edtech has worked immensely in tailoring personalized learning for each student. A lot of data collection and data analytics work goes into this process, but the learning outcomes till now have been great.

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Just who are the people behind today’s educational software?

The Hechinger Report

Over the next week or so, The Hechinger Report will be publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. In this first installment, software engineer Ben Slivka — inspired by science fiction — dreamed of creating truly adaptive learning software.

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As OER Grows Up, Advocates Stress More Than Just Low Cost

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Now we've seen most of the largest [textbook] companies now have some kind of OER product or product that they call OER and are using openly licensed content which is good in the sense that it shows that this is viable. So could there be a future where publishers essentially become adaptive learning software companies?

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The birth and near-death of one piece of educational software

The Hechinger Report

Over the next week or so, The Hechinger Report will be publishing excerpts from Richard Whitmire’s book On the Rocketship: How Top Charter Schools are Pushing the Envelope. I was trying to do individual learning, letting [Slivka''s son] and another really smart kid to do things together.” Personalized learning.