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10 Companies Hiring Teachers Over the Summer

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If you are a teacher looking for a summer gig, or unique ways to make extra money over your break, please find 10 companies hiring now. Varsity Tutors is a nationally recognized company that connects students with personalized tutoring services in both academic and test prep subject areas. Some of these jobs are remote, too.

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Is It Ethical to Run Learning Experiments On Students Without Their Knowledge?

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Imagine you’re an edtech company with thousands of students on your platform. Providing the Spark Jenessa Peterson, director of learning engineering at the Learning Agency, touched off the discussion in a Google Group run by her organization with the question: Is A/B testing between two benign conditions without participants' knowledge OK?

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Pearson Names New N. American President as Stock Plunges on Half-Year Results

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The stock price for Pearson PLC , the world’s largest education business, dropped precipitously Friday after its announcement of a 7 percent decline in underlying sales to about $2.5 Pearson’s stock drops after half-year results are announced. Source: Google Finance. billion for the first half of 2016. and the U.K.,

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Year in Review: Our Top Edtech Business Stories of 2018

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Apple and Google continue to up the ante in their quest to win adoption in classrooms. And Pearson is still around. Former Google Design Ethicist: Relying on Big Tech in Schools Is a ‘Race to the Bottom’. What’s Next for Pearson? Here’s a teaser: Pearson’s plans do not include buying your startup.

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China’s NetDragon to Acquire Edmodo for $137.5 Million

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China’s NetDragon has gobbled up another education technology company. NetDragon Websoft, a publicly-traded company based in Fuzhou, China, has agreed to pay $137.5 Currently, the company, now based in San Mateo, Calif., A decade ago, the big education companies were traditional textbook providers such as Pearson.

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How an Ed-Tech Startup Can Rise Above the Noise at ISTE

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As a small company it’s hard to be heard over the noise (and the smell of popcorn). The center of the exhibit hall has the most valuable real estate and the biggest companies and displays. Every year ISTE seems to grow, in attendees and in the hype on the exhibit show floor.

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10 Summer Jobs For Teachers 2017

EdNews Daily

These companies are hiring now. Varsity Tutors is a nationally recognized company that connects students with personalized tutoring services in both academic and test prep subject areas. PrepNow, an online tutoring company focused on providing a personal, customized test prep experience for students in the comfort of their homes.

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