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

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With constant budget pressures, protracted sales cycles and a diffuse web of different purchasing processes, the K-12 education market is not for the faint of heart, especially for startups looking to establish themselves. Nearpod offers some of its content and tools for free and sells licenses to individual teachers, schools and districts.

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

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It isn’t just the tech entrepreneurs and Hollywood directors who dream about the role that artificial intelligence can play, or will play, in everyday human life—educators have begin to join them. Some give generalized, out-of-classroom descriptions; others tailor their definitions more specifically to education.

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TenMarks Shutdown Leaves Teachers Wanting, Competitors Circling

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Come June 30, operations at the Amazon-owned online education program will cease entirely. Its parent company, 3P Learning, promises to price-match on districts’ most recent TenMarks contract. Across the district’s elementary and middle schools, Yakima had about 8,400 students on the program for the last three years.