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Conga Empowers Edmentum to Boost Operational Efficiency and Increase Contract Processing Speed by 75 Percent

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. – Conga , the global leader in Revenue Lifecycle Management solutions, has partnered with Edmentum , a global education leader in K-12 learning technology solutions, to streamline its contract management processes with a unified, end-to-end solution to simplify and accelerate the sales cycle.

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What if we gave every teacher a work from home day?

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Preparation programs are facing fewer numbers of new educators entering the workforce; thirteen percent of graduate programs surveyed by the American Association of Colleges for Teacher Education reported seeing “significant declines” in the numbers of new students.

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Capstone Names Haygood Poundstone as Chief Revenue Officer

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Prior to his time at Capstone, Poundstone held a variety of leadership positions at Lightspan and PLATO (now Edmentum). Poundstone began his new position on November 13 and reports directly to the Capstone CEO. After six years away, Poundstone rejoins Capstone where he was one of the founding employees of its business unit myON.

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This Toolkit Helps Take the Stress Out of State Testing

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At Edmentum , it’s our goal to put educators first in everything we do. Edmentum was honored to have Marzano Research peer review a research project we conducted for our classroom practice and assessment program, Study Island; Marzano confirmed the effectiveness of using Study Island for online practice.

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Strategy, Serendipity, Sleepless Nights: 3 Edtech CEOs on ‘Great Exits’

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At the time, he was part of PLATO Learning, a school instructional software vendor now known as Edmentum. Todd Brekhus learned a lesson in effective communication back in 2003. PLATO had reportedly spent about $50 million to buy another company to expand the school grades it serviced.

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Edtech CEOs Seek to Change the ‘Adversarial Narrative’ With Public School Teachers

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Jamie Candee, Edmentum BMO Capital Markets Conference The Industry Seeks a Rebound With more technological infrastructure in place, more capital to spend, and advancements in software, mobile technologies and cloud-based computing, business is expected to boom. That would be school districts, which the report says make up about 33.5

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When Is It Okay for Public School Officials to Attend Tech-Funded Events?

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We have to do things differently,” Jamie Candee, CEO of Edmentum told the crowd. In early November, The New York Times reported that Dallas Dance, former superintendent for the Baltimore County School District, had taken at least 65 out-of-state trips related to the district’s tech initiatives or involving industry-funded groups.

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