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K-12 Dealmaking: PowerSchool Acquires Haiku Learning; Jefferson Education Partners with Fishtree

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PowerSchool continued its acquisition streak with the purchase of Haiku Learning; in addition, Jefferson Education announced a partnership with Fishtree, and digital writing solution provider Citelighter gained additional funding. million, plans to use the new funds to enhance “technology and sales.”

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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 Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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based education data management company founded in 1982. The company raised $3 million in 2013 and acquired three companies: Learning Earnings, Spiral Universe (an SIS provider) and Chalkable, which initially aimed to create an educational app store where teachers can purchase and deploy apps.