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Hack Education Weekly News

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” “ Kickboard Looking for New CEO,” Edsurge reports. Investors in this round were the Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, CRE Venture Capital, Learn Capital, Omidyar Network, Google Ventures, and Spark Capital. .” Via The Chronicle of Higher Education : “ Santa J. Via Education Week : “ Virginia B.

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The Business of Education Technology

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Jen Medbery stepped down as CEO of Kickboard. The pressure to move towards digital assessments has fueled schools’ investments in hardware and software more than any other argument about the importance of ed-tech. The learning management system is a piece of “enterprise” software after all.