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?On the Hotseat: 7 Questions for Kickboard’s New CEO, Stefan Kohler

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Many new CEOs face a learning curve when they enter the edtech industry. But at Kickboard , an online school culture system management system, it’s a straight dive in for Stefan Kohler, a former teacher and executive at companies including Scholastic and Pearson. What got you interested in Kickboard? I hope to fix that.

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Why the State of Surveillance in Schools Might Lead to the Next Equifax Disaster

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Other similar technologies include Kickboard and LiveSchool. Doug Levin, an industry expert who has been carefully tracking data breaches in the K-12 school districts, echoes Fitzgerald’s concern, saying, “It is incredibly hard for even the most tech-savvy companies to secure potentially valuable information.

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The Business of Education Technology

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Jen Medbery stepped down as CEO of Kickboard. For the last five or six years, education technology has been largely talked about in terms of “startups,” something that helps position the industry as an outsider and an underdog. Daphne Koller left Coursera this year. Sebastian Thrun stepped down as Udacity’s CEO.