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US Edtech Funding Already Nears $1 Billion in First Half of 2019

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By comparison, in the first six months of 2018, companies raised $750 million across 62 deals. Knewton, an adaptive learning engine that became a digital courseware company, was reportedly bought by Wiley for way less than it raised. In this analysis, EdSurge counts all venture investments in U.S.

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.” Via The Indiana Gazette : “Parents and other school district residents reminded the Indiana Area school board on Monday that their dissent of the Summit Learning program hasn’t waned, even though the administration scaled back the program and put it on ‘opt-in’ status for the 2018–19 school year.”

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Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”). The English-language-learning company has raised $608 million total. Area9, an adaptive learning company, was acquired by McGraw-Hill in 2014, but the press release suggests that Area9 Lyceum is a new company founded by the same people with some of the same IP.