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More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It?

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The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study. The biggest facilitator appears to be Chegg, which has become synonymous with cheating. Meanwhile, business at the company is booming.

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Chegg to Buy Coding Bootcamp Thinkful for $80 Million

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Chegg , a Santa Clara, Calif.-based based publicly traded student services company, plans to buy Thinkful , a Brooklyn-based online coding bootcamp. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. Both companies’ boards of directors have approved the deal. Chegg had been holding onto $1.1

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Will ChatGPT Make Students Turn Away From Homework-Help Services?

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As companies race to come out with tools they claim can detect when prose was written by a bot, some are wondering whether a previous generation of homework-help tools might soon be rendered obsolete. The homework-help business — led by giants like Chegg and Course Hero — has long been both profitable and controversial.

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K-12 Dealmaking: Chegg Acquires Language Learning Platform; Startup MindX raises $3M

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Textbook and tutoring company Chegg is acquiring a leading language learning platform to expand its offerings into different languages. The company announced it will acquire Busuu, a UK company, for approximately $436 million in an all-cash transaction.

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Public Edtech Companies Have Been Rare. These SPACs Will Change That.

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Publicly traded education technology companies are rare. That leaves 2U, Chegg and Stride (formerly known as K12 Inc.) as the remaining trio of prominent edtech companies on the U.S. CLAS.U), a special purpose acquisition company headed by CEO Michael Moe, raised $225 million in its IPO. public market.

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Now With a ‘Sizable Cash Hoard’ of $1 Billion, What Might Chegg Buy?

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Chegg , a publicly-traded provider of textbook rentals and online student services, has closed a $700 million convertible note offering that, after taking expenses into consideration, should give the company an additional $682.7 A portion of this sum will be used by the company for stock repurchases. million in cash.

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This Edtech Critic Was Supposed to Become a Bridge Between Educators and Edtech. How Is It Going?

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While they’re both ostensibly working to make education as strong as possible, educators and edtech don’t always see eye to eye. But if they want to thrive, both groups might need to learn to meet each other’s gaze. The companies note that they forbid cheating.) Is Morris’ move a model for other educators?

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