education
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STARTUPS
What happens to edtech when kids go back to school?
In just a few weeks, homeschooling has gone from a rarity to a baseline in homes across the country. Jonah…
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Trends
Pre-school EdTech startup Lingumi raises £4m, adds some free services during Covid-19
At these difficult times, parents are concerned for their children’s education, especially given so much of it has had to…
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STARTUPS
Color is launching a high-capacity COVID-19 testing lab and will open-source its design and protocols
Genomics health technology startup Color is doing its part to address the global COVID-19 pandemic, and has detailed the steps…
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Trends
Wide Open School organizes free educational resources to help parents and teachers homeschool
Nearly 300 million kids are missing school worldwide because of the coronavirus outbreak, including some 54 million in the U.S. alone. That’s left parents…
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Trends
Online tutoring marketplace Preply banks $10M to fuel growth in North America, Europe
Online learning looks likely to be a key beneficiary of the social distancing and quarantine measures that are being applied…
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Trends
Google Rolls Out Tool To Facilitate Online Teaching
Google CEO Sundar Pichai, announced the release of Teach from Home, a “tools and resources hub” to facilitate online learning.…
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Trends
UNESCO updates distance-learning guide for the 776.7 million children worldwide affected by school closures
As schools around the world close or move classes online to mitigate the spread of COVID-19, many parents and educators…
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STARTUPS
Edtech startups prepare to become ‘not just a teaching tool but a necessity’
As Stanford, Princeton, Columbia and others shutter classrooms to limit the coronavirus outbreak, college educators around the country are clambering…
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Finance
Leap Finance raises $5.5M to democratize financing for foreign-bound Indian students
Tens of thousands of Indians move to the United States to pursue higher education each year. But like many others…
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