Edsurge

APRIL 14, 2022

During the past two years of the COVID-19 crisis, there has been a spike in student use of so-called homework help websites —including Chegg and Course Hero—which market themselves as providing study aids but which many professors see as designed to aid student cheating. They’re the best advertisement you can ever ask for."

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Edsurge

MAY 3, 2019

The announced merger this week between two of the world’s largest textbook publishers—McGraw-Hill and Cengage—could mean more students end up buying subscriptions to digital courseware libraries each semester, rather than making a trip to a bookstore. He imagined the same approach will work once Cengage and McGraw-Hill become one company. “It

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Edsurge

JULY 30, 2018

These meetings, she says, inform how they interact with entrepreneurs. Investing is humbling because we inevitably miss out on or pass on companies that go on to achieve great success in realizing their mission. It brought over the companies from the Seed Fund into its portfolio as well, and re-invested in 14 of them.)

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Hack Education

AUGUST 11, 2017

Not really ed-tech-related, except for all those companies saying they’re “Uber for education.” ” Via Recode : “ Google CEO Sundar Pichai canceled an all-hands meeting about gender controversy due to employee worries of online harassment.” The company has $8.3 ” Education in the Courts.

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Hack Education

DECEMBER 30, 2019

Without revenue the company will go away. Or the company will have to start charging for the software. Or it will raise a bunch of venture capital to support its “free” offering for a while, and then the company will get acquired and the product will go away. And “free” doesn’t last. Students would be required to pay.

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Hack Education

MARCH 3, 2017

.” Via Buzzfeed : “Republican Proposal Would Make Trump University Lawsuits ‘Almost Impossible’ ” Via The Washington Post : “ Chance the Rapper is meeting with Illinois ’ governor about education funding. ” Reminder: here are the education companies Palantir founder Peter Thiel has invested in.

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