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IXL Learning Agrees to Acquire Wyzant Tutoring Marketplace

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IXL Learning , the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced it has agreed to acquire Wyzant , the nation’s largest marketplace for online tutoring. About IXL Learning . At Wyzant, there are no commitments or expensive pre-paid packages.

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What Summer Slide Actually Means—and 5 Ways to Fight it

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My colleagues and I budgeted substantial amounts of time to reteach our students the skills that they had learned the year before; it was no secret that summer vacation led to rusty skills and forgotten knowledge. a digital library with more than 25,000 books and learning videos designed for students. The question is, why?

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When Adaptive Tools Can’t Adapt to Students’ Native Language

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Translation—whether by an in-house team of language experts, third-party translators or translation software—is often the first stop for these companies. sixth-grade level book.” Trying to adapt.for better or worse This criticism is something edtech companies have heard before, and are addressing—albeit in very different ways.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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News from the most well-funded ed-tech company, student loan provider SoFi : SoFi settles w/ FTC over allegations it misrepresented how much borrowers save by refinancing. Really looking forward to this new testing company though! The testing company (profiled by Edsurge in the “testing” section above) has raised $22.5