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Nation’s Leading Promethean Provider Awarded a National Master Purchasing Contract
Logical Choice Technologies, Inc. — Saturday, February 18, 2012
The National Cooperative Purchasing Alliance (NCPA) announced today that it has awarded a master contract for K-20 schools covering 50 states to educational technology provider Logical Choice Technologies, headquartered in Lawrenceville, Georgia. Read More »
Naviance Acquires PrepMe To Enhance CCR Solution
Naviance — Thursday, February 16, 2012
Naviance announced its acquisition of PrepMe, a leader in adaptive learning technologies and test preparation programs for the PSAT, SAT and ACT. With the addition of PrepMe, Naviance will offer an adaptive test preparation platform that leverages these individual details to create a personalized study plan for each student. Read More »
Parchment Raises $6 Million To Expand Credentials Data Venture
Parchment Inc. — Monday, February 13, 2012
Parchment Inc. has raised $6 million in its Series C round of financing led by Salmon River Capital LLC. ,,,The new funding will support the company's aggressive plan for growth, accelerating its product development, employee recruitment, and expansion in the higher education market. Read More »
K12 Inc. Reports Q2 Fiscal 2012 Results
K12 Inc. — Tuesday, February 07, 2012
K12 Inc. announced its results for the second fiscal quarter ended December 31, 2011. Revenues for second quarter FY 2012 grew to $166.5 million, an increase of $37.5 million or 29.1 percent over the prior year, due to organic revenue growth in the core business of providing curriculum, technology and management services to K-12 schools and to acquisitions completed in the past year. Read More »
Chicago Growth Partners Leads Recapitalization of Teaching Strategies, Inc.
Chicago Growth Partners — Tuesday, February 07, 2012
Chicago Growth Partners is excited to announce its fourth education platform investment in four years - the recapitalization of Teaching Strategies, Inc. Teaching Strategies is the leading provider of early childhood educational resources, including curriculum and web-based assessment products. Read More »
netTrekker Becomes “Knovation”
netTrekker — Friday, February 03, 2012
netTrekker has re-launched as Knovation. The new entity reflects a transformation of the company’s strategic growth plan and ongoing endeavor to create breakthrough digital content solutions for K-12 education that remove the barriers to learning and address the unique needs of students, teachers, parents and educational administrators. Read More »
ETS Acquires MyCollegei
Educational Testing Service — Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Educational Testing Service has established LikeLive, a video interviewing platform, through the acquisition of MyCollegei. LikeLive is a cutting-edge, user-friendly platform created to assist colleges, universities, and corporations in more effectively managing their application process. ETS acquired MyCollegei through its new, wholly owned subsidiary LikeLive LLC. Read More »
Capstone Announces DC Entertainment License for Educational Markets
Capstone — Saturday, January 28, 2012
Capstone, a leading publisher of children’s books and digital products and services, has announced a licensing agreement with DC Entertainment to publish reinforced library hard covers and paper-over-board editions of the DC Comics comic book list. The license includes worldwide English and select Spanish editions for limited markets. Read More »
Reliance Communications Acquires AnComm
Reliance Communications — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Reliance Communications, the parent company of SchoolMessenger, announced the acquisition of AnComm, creator of Talk About It®, the first and only anonymous communication service that allows students to ‘speak up’ by engaging in text message or email dialogue with trusted school staff members. The acquisition expands the suite of communications solutions SchoolMessenger now offers... Read More »
Independent Report Shows K12's Leadership
K12 Inc. — Tuesday, January 24, 2012
In an independent report on educational technologies, MDR's market research service EdNET Insight ranked K12 Inc. the leading provider of online curriculum to school districts across the United States. Based on large-scale surveys of instructional and technology decision makers at the district level, the report shows that more respondents named K12 as their provider of choice for online content than any other provider. Read More »
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