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PowerSchool Completes Schoology Purchase in March Toward ‘Unified’ K-12 Data Ecosystem

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Four years ago, when Hardeep Gulati took over as CEO of PowerSchool, the company numbered around 400 employees. The newest addition comes courtesy of Schoology, a K-12 learning management system provider that PowerSchool announced it was buying last month. Financial terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.

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

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The tool can display students’ responses in real-time anonymously on the class monitor, or privately on the teacher’s dashboard. 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. Sorry, Internet Explorer.)

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PowerSchool to Acquire Schoology, Pairing Major K-12 LMS and SIS Providers

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Since 2015, PowerSchool has acquired eight companies. Through these deals, the company has expanded its product suite beyond its original K-12 student information system offering to assessment, enrollment, special education and talent management services. Haiku has since been rebranded as PowerSchool Learning. and Canada.

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Activate Instruction migrates content to Gooru

eSchool News

Free, personalized online tool makes high-quality content available to all users. As the public education system evolves toward supporting students’ personalized needs, online learning tools have emerged that allow teachers to customize instruction.

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5 Essential Effective Blended Learning Best Practices

The CoolCatTeacher

Select a Simple Video Creation Tool. I like to use Office Mix, to create these quick videos but have used several tools with good results: Screen-cast-o-matic – This tool runs in a web browser. As a free tool, it is the one my students use. (PC, Explain Everything – This tool is perfect for iPads.

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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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