Wade Tyler Millward
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Oakland, CA, United States
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Districts Pivot Their Strategies to Reduce Chronic Absenteeism During Distance Learning
Erin Simon had big goals for this school year. The director of student support services for Long Beach Unified School District wanted to reduce the ... → Read More
Online Cheating Isn’t Going Away. Use It as a Teachable Moment for Students and Educators
As more colleges and school districts prepare to resume remote instruction for the fall, educators may worry how to prevent cheating when assignments ... → Read More
Thinkster Sought an Investment From an Adviser. Instead, It Bought His SAT Prep Company.
The app presents students with a typical fifth-grade math question—turn 29 / 9 into a mixed fraction.The student may attempt to solve the equation ... → Read More
Rideshare Startups for Schoolchildren Change Lanes to Survive COVID-19
About three years ago, Antonette Delgado became a driver in Los Angeles for a new kind of rideshare service. Unlike others, this one, HopSkipDrive, ... → Read More
From Relief Funds to Online Classes, COVID-19 Upends Early Childcare Software Startups
Elisa Pupko had long wondered whether online audiences would enjoy streams of her theater classes. What was once a curiosity is now key to the ... → Read More
4 Items on Instructure’s To-Do List After the Sale of the Canvas LMS Provider
Even without a pandemic, Instructure faced a transformative 2020. The learning management system provider—best known for its Canvas product popular ... → Read More
How Parents Can Talk to Students About Coronavirus Anxiety
For Jason Coe, life is much different under the COVID-19 outbreak. The Cary, N.C., high school freshman has been out of school since March 16, with ... → Read More
Online YC Demo Day Includes a Byju’s Rival, Quiz Bowl App and Parenting Advice Platform
COVID-19 led to a more demure, online-only version of startup accelerator Y Combinator’s demo day event this week for its winter cohort. Instead of ... → Read More
Nepris Raises $5 Million Series A Round to Bring Field Trips to the Classroom
Career day and field trips—two staples of American education. But organizing them can pose logistical and financial challenges for schools. Finding ... → Read More
Paper, formerly GradeSlam, Raises $7.5 Million to Grow Beyond Online Tutoring
Alena Leonova watches for specific behaviors when she evaluates prospective tutors for her company’s tutoring service. She assumes the role of a ... → Read More
With the Internet of Things, Smart Dishwashers Can Give Kids Chores
Smart appliances in popular media have long teased us with visions of a more carefree, convenient life. In “The Jetsons,” a popular cartoon series from ... → Read More
ParentSquare Becomes a Parent Company After Acquiring School Communication App
Sohit Wadhwa has a plan to stand out among the plethora of apps to help schools and parents communicate. More ways to communicate with parents—whether ... → Read More
Education Robot Maker Roybi Boosts Kids Speech Recognition Technology With Acquisition
Roybi, the maker of a pill-shaped robot to teach language and math skills to young children, has acquired additional technology to power its ... → Read More
What Students Want Teachers—and Facebook—to Know About Digital Citizenship
In some hands, social media tools are blights on society, tools for bullies and misinformation campaigns. Sometimes, they’re a canvas for artists, ... → Read More
Another ‘Best and Final Offer’ Emerges as Vote on Instructure Sale Is Postponed—Again
The waiting game continues for Instructure, which has pushed back—again—a shareholders’ vote on an offer from private equity firm Thoma Bravo to ... → Read More
K12 Eyes Further Deals After $165M Acquisition of Coding Bootcamp Galvanize
Another bootcamp has been gobbled up by an education technology company looking to break into the corporate learning and career readiness market. This ... → Read More
Omidyar Network Spins Off Education Portfolio Into Independent Investment Firm
The Omidyar Network is going through changes. Since 2018, the investment and philanthropic vehicle started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar and his wife, ... → Read More
US Edtech Closes Decade with Record $1.7 Billion Raised in 2019
Two trends have helped to define the U.S. economy leading into 2020—equity market milestone after milestone plus a historically low labor pool. In ... → Read More
Possip Raises $1M to Give Schools ‘Positive Gossip’ and Feedback
Shani Dowell has felt the tension between a parent and a child’s teacher from both sides. As a former seventh and eighth grade teacher, Dowell has ... → Read More
Strategy Shift Leads to Layoffs (and a Rogue Ex-Employee) at Coding Kit Company Pi-Top
A London-based company in the crowded market of do-it-yourself programmable hardware for students seeks to shake off negative headlines as it ... → Read More