More Students Are Using Chegg to Cheat. Is the Company Doing Enough to Stop It?
The pandemic has dramatically altered teaching and learning, and one side effect seems to be a rise in cheating on quizzes and tests, aided by websites designed to help students study.Students were used to being watched...
How a Feedback Tool Improves Both Instruction and Student Outcomes for This Math Teacher
In recent years, the focus in math education has shifted from the traditional priority of answering the problem to one of understanding and articulating the process. This has been accompanied by a growing demand for educators to provide quality feedback in a timely manner. And high school math teacher Krystina Wood might have discovered the secret sauce to do just that. Krystina WoodAs a 13-year veteran at Toledo High School in Toledo,...
Codecademy, an Early (and Now Profitable) Pioneer of Coding Education, Raises $40M in New Funding
Money has flowed into the edtech sector over the last twelve months. Bumper funding rounds and freshly minted unicorns are grabbing headlines, but there are questions about how long current investment appetite will...
Remote Work May Transform Higher Education. But Will Printers and Alexa Undermine Its Privacy?
An “uber trend” of remote work for higher education information security is coming, at a time when more connections are being forged between higher ed and other state data. Plus: printers, smart speakers and privacy (oh my!) — all in this Edtech Reports Recap. That Horizon Seems to Be … Closer“Higher education may never be the same again after 2020, and that will be an exciting prospect to some.” So declares the newest...
The Key to Better Student Engagement Is Letting Them Show You How They Learn
A couple of weeks ago during a coaching session, a middle school teacher I work with described a fun math activity. She asked her students who were learning remotely to build blanket forts. As you might expect, the students calculated the area, perimeter and volumes of their forts. What was surprising was that for days after this lesson these students logged into class from inside their blanket sanctuaries. Almost inadvertently, during...
Hobsons’ Higher Ed Business Split and Sold in Separate Deals Totaling $410M
Hobsons, which offers a suite of software for college and career planning, admissions and enrollment, and student success and advising, will be broken up and sold in a pair of transactions totaling approximately $410 million.The company’s owner, the Daily Mail and General Trust (DMGT, which is also the publisher of the British newspaper Daily Mail), announced it has reached an agreement to sell Naviance and Intersect to PowerSchool...
Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal
With constant budget pressures, protracted sales cycles and a diffuse web of different purchasing processes, the K-12 education market is not for the faint of heart, especially for startups looking to establish themselves. It has long had a reputation for moving much more slowly than the pace at which startups need to operate to survive and grow.But another blockbuster deal in this sector, in the middle of an ongoing pandemic, offers...
Citing Racism and ‘Years of Bullying,’ Dena Simmons Resigns From Yale Center for Emotional Intelligence
Dena Simmons, a prominent researcher of social-emotional learning, resigned from Yale University’s Center for Emotional Intelligence last month due to what she calls a pattern of behavior by some colleagues that left...
4 Ways to Build a Strong Professional Learning Network for Innovation and Growth
Problem solving is a key skill in teaching. But in the past year, especially, the problems in need of a solution seem to have grown exponentially. How do we teach kids online and in person at the same time? How do we...
