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The donation will help expand D.C.'s Education Innovation Fellowship.
Microsoft donates $1 Million to Expand ‘Blended Learning’ in D.C., Emma Brown, Wash Post
In direct-to-consumer play (5-8 yr olds,) Play-i to make programmable robots for < $100.
Former Googler, Apple Engineer Tackle Educational Bots, Lauren Goode, AllThingsD
Nonprofit talks its expansion plans, including strategic partnerships with Rethink and Zynga.
NewSchoolsVF to Address Shortage of Ed-tech Capital, Christina Farr, VentureBeat
It's a place where scientists share raw data & published results available to all, for free.
The Facebook for Scientists ResearchGate Raised $20 Million, Kristin Winkler, Edukwest
The Series D round values company at $350 million, brings total funding to $120 million.
Miami-based Open English Raises $65 Million in 4th Round, Nancy Dahlberg, Miami Herald
The company's non-profit org is partnering with NewSchools Venture Fund.
Zynga to Give Educaiton-Tech Startups a Boost, Jessica E. Lessen, Wall Street Journal
Funding is to support staff costs, lobbying and research, but not direct campaign donations.
Walton Foundation Gives $8 million to StudentsFirst, Howard Blume, L.A. Times
Startup connects special-needs students with online speech & occupational therapy services.
PresenceLearning Raises $8M from New Markets Venture PRN, Leena Rao, TechCrunch
The startup aims to promote social reading and aid book discovery. To date, $8.75M raised.
BookShout raises $6M from Ambassador Enterprises, Laura Hazard Owen, paidContent
Online portfolio lets students showcase their work before having real-world job experience.
Seelio Raises $900K from First Step Fund, Others, Sarah Perez, TechCrunch
With Learning Catalytics, Pearson is essentially acquiring a student response system.
Pearson Acquires Flipped Classroom Managers, Learning Catalytics, Rip Empson, TechCrunch
Echo360 plans to use the social learning tools to boost its existing services and solutions.
ThinkBinder Bought by Echo360, Terms Undisclosed, Nick Summers, The Next Web
Company offers digital curriculum “By Teachers, For Teachers.”
LearnZillion Raises $7M in Round Led by DMC, Christina Farr, Venture Beat
Montréal ed tech company develops digital games, products, & services for pre-schoolers.
Tribal Nova Bought by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, Chris Reidy, Boston Globe
Co. boasts 25,000+ active users on its online coding education platform.
Treehouse Raises $7M to Grow Online Coding Platform, edSurge
Platform for academics and orgs to share research & collaborate via a social network.
Mendeley Bought for $69M-$100M by Elsevier, Ingrid Lunden, TechCrunch
EverTrue provides 100+ universities in 6 countries a platform to manage alumni networks.
EverTrue Nabs $5.25M to Help Schools Manage Alumni Networks, edSurge
Seattle's Livemocha, with 16 million users globally, will help Rosetta move to the cloud.
Rosetta Stone Acquires Livemocha for $8.5 Million, Ki Mae Heussner, GigaOM
Platform lets teachers create, share presentations with students’ mobile devices in realtime.
Nearpod Gets $1.5M From NewSchools, Rip Empson, TechCrunch
Brings total funding to date to $12.2 million, close to its US competitor Livemocha's $14M.
Babbel raises $10 million Series B, busuu & Livemocha to follow? Kirsten Winkler, Edukwest
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