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Bigger Deals, Bigger Bets: EdTech Venture Funding Trends Continue in 2018

EdNews Daily

Zuoyebang, a web and mobile platform to assist K-12 students on homework assignments, received $500M investments over 2 rounds of funding in August 2017 and July 2018; an additional $500M of developmental capital from Softbank is said to be upcoming. In the United States, Udemy and Udacity have both reached $1.0B

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Ed Tech News, a New Podcast, and the Hack Education Roundup!

The Learning Revolution Has Begun

The bill will be a massive revisions to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act. This includes video games, mobile games and the like. According to the report, 38% of kids in this age range are playing mobile games, up from 8% in 2009. A study by the NPD Group released this week finds that 91% of kids ages 2 to 17 play games.

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