Remove Classroom Remove Company Remove Haiku Learning Remove Student Engagement
article thumbnail

K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool Acquires Haiku Learning; Jefferson Education Partners with Fishtree

Marketplace K-12

PowerSchool continued its acquisition streak with the purchase of Haiku Learning; in addition, Jefferson Education announced a partnership with Fishtree, and digital writing solution provider Citelighter gained additional funding. and Canada.

article thumbnail

Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

Edsurge

A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. The tool is also tightly integrated with Google tools—G Suite for Education and Google Classroom—which allows students to log in with their Google accounts. The Iowa City-based startup has now raised $5.2

article thumbnail

PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

Edsurge

Ever since Pearson sold PowerSchool in June 2015, the two companies have embarked on very different paths. The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business. Today, the Folsom, Calif.-based