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Edtech Company Encourages Its Employees to Volunteer as Substitute Teachers

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For example: In late January, Utah Governor Spencer Cox issued an executive order giving state employees up to 30 hours of paid time off to sit in for missing staff at public and private schools. Company officials say it became apparent during the pandemic that school administrators couldn’t get substitutes fast enough.

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Companies go to high schools for career training

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Since the second semester of his senior year of high school, he has responded to field calls as an employee of the largest underground utility locating company in North America — the Indianapolis-based U.S. Infrastructure Company (USIC). You learn how to work with people,” he said.

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This Company Aims to Become the Amazon of Lifelong Learning

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The Singapore-based company Genius Group has turned some of its attention to the U.S. In July, the company bought the for-profit University of Antelope Valley in California, saying it would incorporate it as a portal in the metaverse, part of the voguish effort to link the globe into “one big classroom.” edtech market recently.

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Savvas Learning Company Acquires Whooo’s Reading

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PARAMUS, NEW JERSEY — Savvas Learning Company , a K-12 next-generation learning solutions leader, announced today that it has acquired Whooo’s Reading and its AI-driven technology that enables teachers to quickly and easily determine whether their students comprehend the books they are reading.

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A Proctoring Company Tried to Sue an Edtech Critic. He’s Fighting Back in Court.

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In 2020, the digital proctoring company Proctorio brought a lawsuit against Ian Linkletter, who was then a learning technology specialist at the University of British Columbia. The videos, which had been posted by the company as “unlisted” on Youtube, described how Proctorio’s software works. Don't be a Proctorio partner.

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As Facebook Changes Name to Meta, Company Wants to Pull Education Into Its 'Metaverse'

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What that metaverse will look like is still a bit vague, but the company gave some hints in prepared statements and in an hour-long video it released. In 2014 the company bought VR company Oculus for $2 billion. And he is targeting education as one key part of that vision. Zuckerberg’s interest in virtual reality is nothing new.

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Expanding into Early Childhood Is Good for Edtech Companies. Is It Good for Kids?

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Instead, the Norway-based company—which counts Disney as an investor —revealed a new suite of digital games, called Kahoot! It’s the latest example of an established K-12 education company moving into the early childhood space. And no, it’s not more quizzes. And now, this is getting more and more structured.”