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The Business of 'Ed-Tech Trends'

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Tom Webster, the VP of strategy at the market research firm Edison Research, argued that the report should be viewed as “an extremely effective piece of content marketing,” pointing to the number of slides that cite data about or by a portfolio company of Meeker’s employer, the venture capital firm Kleiner Perkins Smith Caulfield.

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Education Technology and the New Behaviorism

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It’s a reaction, I’d say, to the current obsession with artificial intelligence and a response to all the stories we were told this year about robots on the cusp of replacing, out-“thinking,” and out-working us. ” An ed-tech trend in the making, investors hope. Don’t let the dearth of data fool you though.

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WHAT’S NEW

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BENCHMARK EDUCATION COMPANY ADVANCEALL ( benchmarkeducation.com ) Benchmark Education Company (BEC) released Advance ALL, a new series motivating students to read with literary and informational reading text sets. The course takes students up to four hours and can be completed over several weeks.

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WHAT’S NEW: NEW TOOLS FOR SCHOOLS

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The combined companies now extend from enrollment to graduation in districts that include traditional public, charter, and independent schools across the country. The company has partnered with advocacy organizations to produce white papers at the 2017 and 2016 Digital Citizenship Summits and provides online monitoring software to schools.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via The New York Post : “Charter-school advocacy group to close up shop.” ” Mindwires Consulting’s Michael Feldstein on his company’s new event series, The Empirical Educator Project. ” Well, this will be useful to “personalize learning,” won’t it.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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“ Is Running a Company Like Leading a Classroom? Via The Outline : “The rise and fall of the company behind ’ Reader Rabbit’ and all your favorite educational games.” Robots and Other Education Science Fiction. million from Naspers and Learn Capital. The learn-to-code company has raised $6.9

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” The Black Alliance for Educational Options , a charter school advocacy group, announced it will cease operations at the end of the year. No disclosure in this or its Class Central article that it shares investors with these MOOC companies.). Related, I think: “The Rift Among Charter Schools” by Rachel Cohen.).

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