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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

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The size of this acquisition dwarfs that of a similar one last year: Discovery Education’s $140-million purchase of Mystery Science , a provider of elementary-grade science curriculum. As in previous edtech market cycles, “there are winners and losers, those who succeed and those who struggle,” says Brekhus. million in outside capital.)

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Educators on Artificial Intelligence: Here's the One Thing it Can't Do Well

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Amongst these eight educators, edtech software such as IXL Learning and i-Ready both get lumped in with Amazon’s Alexa in the same AI bucket, despite the fact that a tool like IXL doesn’t theoretically become smarter over time as a user interacts with it.