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edsurge | February 19, 2020

In an effort to help educators, parents and other education technology consumers make better choices about the products they use, Digital Promise spent the last year developing a “research-based design” product certification. And earlier this month, the nonprofit announced that 13 education companies had become the first to earn the distinction. The certification is the latest example of the industry’s push to ensure that edtech products on the market—and in classrooms&md...

NWEA | August 04, 2020

NWEA, a not-for-profit provider of assessment solutions, released today projections that current school closures due to the COVID-19 global pandemic could result in substantially lower achievement levels for students. The forecasts leveraged previous NWEA research on summer learning loss (also known as summer slide) and used a national sample of over five million students in grades 3-8 who took MAP® Growth™ assessments to estimate potential impacts of the COVID-19 related school closur...

prnewswire | June 05, 2020

Money Experience, the innovative edtech company based in Cambridge, Massachusetts, today announced its partnership with Domain, a flexible and affordable higher education solution from Impact Global Education, a leader in hands-on learning. Domain is innovating education during the COVID-19 pandemic, and as part of the partnership, Money Experience's Essentials program will be included as a virtual learning resource in the Life Skills section of the platform. With many colleges and universit...

edsurge | February 12, 2020

Another U.S. education technology company has reached the billion-dollar valuation mark, and with that comes bragging rights to being a “unicorn.” But its CEO winces when he hears the word. He really, really doesn’t want to talk about it. “I am careful about that term being the focus,” says Andrew Grauer, who co-founded Course Hero in 2006. The word, he notes, “can be backward looking. It becomes problematic if that’s the end goal.” Soft spoken yet...