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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Cash Deal

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Renaissance Learning , a provider of K-12 software and assessments, including the widely used STAR tests, has agreed to acquire Nearpod for $650 million. Dating back to 1986, Renaissance Learning has established its name in the education market largely through its STAR assessments and Accelerated Reader and Accelerated Math programs.

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Edtech Executives Weigh In: Three Conditions for Personalized Learning Success

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Personalized learning is a way to engage learners in a customized set of resources, tasks, and environments in order to meet their learning needs and goals. In many schools, there are certain classrooms or teams with pockets of success, yet successful school-wide adoption of a personalized learning model is elusive.

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IXL Learning Releases Continuous Diagnostic for English Language Arts

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Today, IXL Learning announced the release of its Continuous Diagnostic for English language arts (ELA). Available on IXL K-12 personalized learning program, the Continuous Diagnostic simultaneously analyzes students’ language arts and math abilities and provides teachers with next steps to help learners advance.

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Kiddom’s Content Library Makes Differentiation Faster Than Ever

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Kiddom is designed to help teachers curate individual learning experiences with pages that are visual and easy-to-understand, and enable teachers to quickly determine student progress and where remediation is needed. IXL Learning. Learn Zillion. PBS Learning Media. This includes: ABCYa.com. Flocabulary.

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Who’s on the List of Most Popular Edtech Organizations and Jobs?

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EdSurge jobs board collects thousands of postings from companies, districts and nonprofits looking for new edtech talent. Curious to learn about the trends in edtech jobs over the last year? The most popular edtech jobs. Curriculum solutions designers job” at Cengage Learning. Every year, the. Washington, D.C. (

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IXL Learning Releases New iPhone App

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Today, IXL Learning announced the release of its iPhone app, which features more than 5,700 skills in math and English language arts. The IXL iPhone app can be downloaded for free on the Apple App Store. The IXL iPhone app can be downloaded for free on the Apple App Store. Do you have an innovative edtech product?

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When Adaptive Tools Can’t Adapt to Students’ Native Language

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has caught the eye of the edtech market. Trying to adapt.for better or worse This criticism is something edtech companies have heard before, and are addressing—albeit in very different ways. A rapidly growing population of English Language Learners in the U.S. The texts suddenly become much more difficult for students to access.”.