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IGNITE! READING ANNOUNCES $10M SERIES A FINANCING TO MEET ACCELERATING SCHOOL DEMAND FOR ITS VIRTUAL 1:1 LITERACY TUTORING PROGRAM

eSchool News

Citadel Founder and CEO Ken Griffin and founding or current partners from Comcast Ventures, Draper Richards Kaplan Foundation, Emergence Capital, Hellman & Friedman and Wing Venture Capital also participated in the financing as individual investors.

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Teaching Python: How Children Can Learn Python Programming

The CoolCatTeacher

Receive graduate credit through CAEP and regionally accredited university partners or for continuing education units that meet your state requirements. They are online and self-paced, so you can take them anywhere, any time with up to six months to complete. Go to advancementcourses.com/coolcat and use the coupon code COOL20.

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Where do Brainscape's certified MBE flashcards come from? (And are they legit?)

Brainscape

These instructors then scoured textbooks, past exams, and materials by top bar prep courses like BarBri, Themis, Critical Pass, BarMax, Kaplan to ensure that our MBE flashcards weren't missing any of the important concepts that others were covering. In fact, most are now deemed invalid.)

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K-12 Dealmaking: Kaplan Launches New Practice in U.S.; BoomStartup Taking Ed Tech Accelerator Applications

Marketplace K-12

In addition, BoomStartup announced it will be applications for its ed-tech accelerator program, and Kaplan launched a new global leadership and professional development practice. Kaplan Launches U.S. cities where Kaplan already maintains other operations and educational services, the company said in a statement.

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By Putting Tensions on Stage, Colleges Aim to Change Campus Culture

Edsurge

He arrived early to a meeting to discover a senior faculty member lying in ambush, armed with a crude joke and disparaging words for a researcher—a woman—who’d applied for a job in their department. As Matt Kaplan, executive director of the Michigan center explains it, “I’m not talking about my classroom, I’m talking about that classroom.”

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

Edsurge

The first online class we launched in 1998 was little more than flat text on webpages, and we closely followed the birth of learning management systems, meeting with both Blackboard and WebCT before they achieved their first $1 million in revenue. Kaplan thrived during the decade, growing to more than $2.8 billion in 2010.

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Prepfactory - free online test prep tips and practice

Educational Technology Guy

PrepFactory is a site that offers students free SAT + ACT instructional videos and practice questions (kind of like Duolingo meets Khan Academy, specifically for test prep). It''s easy to use and offers tips for taking the tests as well as practice questions and videos.