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Some Professors Fight Study-Help Sites. Other Professors Now Use Them.

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Soon someone from the company reached out to her to offer her full access to the site for free, which costs students either $39.95 All she had to do was fill out a faculty profile, and she happily answered questions about how she had used the service and did an interview for an article on the company’s website. per month, or $119.40

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GSV Adds Three New Letters to Its Portfolio: MBA

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If we do this right, not only should GSV have a strategy in investing in these companies, we hope other investors see the value of the students coming out of there and are attracted to it as well,” Moe says. GSV is not committing to back any students’ business plans. But that’s not out of the question. “If

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Acquisition Autopsy: Details—and Questions—Behind MissionU’s $4M Sale to WeWork

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Few, if any, of MissionU’s financial backers publicly celebrated the transaction on Twitter or elsewhere. Two years ago, the “college-alternative” company launched to glowing coverage on TV shows, raised $11.5 Fast Company, which broke the story , reported that the acquisition was an all-stock deal.

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The 2018 EdSurde Annual Special: Surgecoin, EduWands and Other News Not Fit for Print

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But some companies are jumping the gun. Chegg appears to have borrowed a page from Duolingo’s previous shenanigan for the Osmosis Pillow , which takes “memory foam” to another level. Company leaders promise (fingers crossed!) It used to be that people waited until today to unleash their pranks.

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Edtech Industry Magnate Michael Moe Makes a Pivot

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In the global marketplace and growth economy, your education and your knowledge makes the difference, not only for an individual but for a company and, for that matter, a country. DeVry University was another very successful company, delivering important skills for the untypical college student, as was Education Management Corp.

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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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. But altruism is not the same as justice.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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” Via Education Week : “Security Companies Sell School ‘Hardening’ as Mass-Shooting Solution.” ” Via MyNDNow.com : “ Iowa company donates AR–15s to be placed in Bismarck schools.” The language learning company has raised $12.5 That makes it a unicorn, says Edsurge.