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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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I enrolled in my first online course in 1998—an awful Frankenstein of assignments and web-based textbook chapters—and never finished it. Chegg (NYSE: CHGG) is down 43.8 Of course these recent corrections aren’t unique to the education market. Nerdy (NYSE: NRDY) is down 47.1 Duolingo (NASDAQ: DUOL) is down 42.0

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Springboard Raises $11 Million to Expand Mentor-Driven Coding Bootcamps

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Springboard will use the money to recruit more students internationally, to build out more courses to cover wider subject matter and to forge more corporate partnerships, says CEO Gautam Tambay. Bootcamps have been acquisition targets as well, with Chegg scooping up Thinkful and 2U buying Trilogy. It was frustrating,” he says.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” Pearson and Chegg are partnering for textbook rentals. In other STEM news, Pornhub awards a “women in tech” scholarship. .” ” The story praises the work of Tristan Denley and his course recommendation tool Degree Compass. Then Deeper Questions Emerged.”

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The 100 Worst Ed-Tech Debacles of the Decade

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There are, of course, vast inequalities in access to technology — in school and at home and otherwise — and in how these technologies get used. Rafter, a course material provider that was an early advocate of and provider for this bundling of textbooks and tuition, closed its doors in 2016 , having raised more than $86 million.

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Hack Education Weekly News

Hack Education

” Via CNET : “ Trump signs laws to promote women in STEM.” Via The Atlantic : “The STEM Superhero of Sesame Street.” ” Via the press release : “ Cengage , McGraw-Hill Education , and Pearson have joined forces with Ingram and Chegg , Inc. The cause : a typo. ” Grover.