Mastery Charter Schools

Study International | March 05, 2020

Facial recognition technology is growing in sophistication. The technology is already being used to unlock our mobile phones, identify shoplifters, enhance security at airports and track students’ attendance. Despite the proliferation of the technology, its use on university campuses has not bode well with fractions of students. Recently, students across the US have participated in protests demanding their schools refrain from using facial recognition on campus, report The Guardian. Studen...

Education Modified | July 13, 2020

Education Modified and the DC Special Education Cooperative announce a partnership, supported by Someone Else's Child and MIT Solve, to streamline workflow and improve virtual special education delivery for 16 additional charter schools in Washington, D.C.Through this partnership, Co-op member schools can use Education Modified's data and collaborative workflow platform for the upcoming 2020-2021 school year to address a major stumbling block during the COVID-19 school closures: co...

Talent Development

Businesswire | June 02, 2023

Swing Education, an online marketplace that connects schools and substitute teachers, announced today $38 million in Series C funding. The funding round was led by funds advised by Apax Partners LLP (“Apax”), a leading global private equity advisory firm, and by edtech investment firm Reach Capital. The funding enables Swing Education to invest in its growth and better address the nation-wide substitute teacher shortage. This financing follows a 2018 Series B funding...

Google | May 19, 2020

AI software is designed to ensure that individual students are given more opportunities to re-read and learn lessons through repetition. The increasing interest among young learners and teachers in the online learning module has propelled software devel...