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| 05.11.2025 | 8 Tools That Make Teaching More Efficient | Share
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In today’s fast-paced educational environment, efficiency is essential for teachers striving to balance lesson planning, instruction, assessment, and student engagement. Fortunately, technology offers a wide ra... |
| 03.08.2025 | St. Vrain Valley gives ninth graders a summer jump on high school | District leaders say that extra attention is working. St. Vrain’s on-time graduation for the class of 2024 was among the highest in the state at 94.3%, up from 93.3% the previous year. Statewide, the average on-time graduation rate was 84.2... |
| 22.05.2025 | Bridging the Funding Gap: The Rise of Southeast Asian Startups | Southeast Asia is a vibrant tapestry of innovation. Startups are sprouting like wildflowers, each one unique, each one promising. Yet, the landscape is not without its challenges. A significant gap looms in late-stage funding, threatening t... |
| 21.05.2025 | Deals in brief: CrediLinq secures Series A funding, Vertex Ventures backs Quantified Energy, Ringkas raises 5.1 million, and more | CrediLinq raises Series A funding to grow global embedded SME finance infrastructure
CrediLinq, a fintech startup based in Singapore, has raised an undisclosed amount in a Series A funding round to expand its embedded finance infrastructure... |
| 12.03.2024 | Advice | Ask Amy: A demanding gram wants to lay down the law | Dear Amy:
When our son visits us with his teenage daughter, she totally trashes her room during her stay.
As the grandmother and host, can I demand that she keep her room in some semblance of order?
– Demanding Gram
Dear Gram:
It’s your hom... |
| 21.06.2021 | AGORA, INC.
Agora : How Parent Involvement Leads to Student Success and Business Growth | Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, I have noticed an exponential increase in the communication flow between students, parents, and teachers. While remote learning presented many challenges, it boosted the demand for parent-teacher communica... |
| 20.10.2020 | Remind closes record third quarter as districts across the country commit to two-way communication | |
| 13.08.2020 | Remind achieves ISO 27001:2013 certification for information security | |
| 25.01.2019 | Verizon caves, won’t charge “spam” fee for texts from teachers to students | Enlarge
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| 18.01.2019 | On Heels Of Favorable FCC Ruling, Verizon Imposes 'Spam' Fees On Text Message Service For Schools, Nonprofits | Just about a month ago the FCC quietly handed the telecom industry another favor by voting to reclassify text messages as an “information service” instead of a “telecommunications service” under the Telecom Act, effectively freeing text mes... |
| 17.01.2019 | Verizon blames school text provider in dispute over “spam” fee | Enlarge / A Samsung Galaxy Note 8 smartphone is displayed for sale at a Verizon store in Brea, California, on Monday, January 22, 2018.
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| 15.01.2019 | New Verizon Fees Could Cut Off Access for Millions of Remind Users | UPDATE: Verizon said on Wednesday night that it will not be imposing any additional fees on Remind. Read the full story here.
Can you hear me now? That’s what Remind and many of its users hope to get across as they protest Verizon’s new fee... |
| 21.01.2018 | 6 top apps for teachers in 2018 | Fact of life: teachers are busy, both in the classroom and outside of it. Apps can be a godsend to help keep organized and improve the classroom experience for students. But there are so many apps out there—which ones are tops for teachers ... |
| 29.11.2017 | Could Giving Parents Homework Help Students? Schools Try ‘Family Playlists’ | Here’s a familiar conversation loop, one that gets replayed endlessly in homes across the country:
“How was school today?”
“Um, okay.”
Sure, it reflects the age-old communications gulf between adults and kids. But it also represents an achi... |
| 29.08.2017 | Remind’s Race to Conquer the K-12 Communications Market—and Make Money | The bigger the check, the grander the expectations. That’s the pressure put on any venture-backed startup—and especially so for Remind, which has raised $59.5 million from investors including Kleiner Perkins and Social Capital, two of Silic... |
| 05.08.2017 | Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs | After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. In particular, at a busy New York commu... |
| 05.08.2017 | Scaling Mobile Technology for Community College Students: 5 Tips for Entrepreneurs | After three years of utilizing a BYOD (bring your own device) policy with my classes at Nassau Community College, I have seen how tools like tablets and laptops can lead to better academic engagement. In particular, at a busy New York commu... |
| 17.06.2017 | Stale Words and Hackneyed Ideas That Make Edtech Investors Cringe | If you go to startup pitch events, you’ve seen it happen:
An entrepreneur says something—something so naïve, egregious and hackneyed—that it makes the investors, along with educators who are now increasingly in the audience, physically crin... |
| 19.04.2017 | 6 New Startups Redefining The Educational Space | Tech startups are creating buzz in transportation, gaming, healthcare, and telecommunications sectors. Everybody knows this. What people may not realize is that technology has a huge impact on the educational space as well. In the first qua... |
| 31.01.2017 | What Edtech Tools Are Community Colleges Flocking To? | Like all education ecosystems, community colleges have an array of different edtech tools to choose from. Where does one begin to search through the myriad of products out there—and find the ones best tailored to specific needs?
One suggest... |
| 14.09.2016 | Education app Remind passes 20 million active users and names Brian Grey CEO | Remind today announced that it has passed 20 million monthly active users and has named Brian Grey as CEO. The education app provides secure messaging for teachers, students, and parents at more than 50 percent of the approximately 100,000 ... |
| 14.09.2016 | Education app Remind passes 20 million active users and names Brian Grey CEO | Did you miss a session from GamesBeat Summit 2022? All sessions are available to stream now. Learn more.
Remind today announced that it has passed 20 million monthly active users and has named Brian Grey as CEO. The education app provides s... |
| 14.09.2016 | Remind Taps Former Bleacher Report CEO to Take Reins | Not even this summer’s NBA Finals, featuring the Golden State Warriors, could distract Bay Area sports fan Brian Grey from taking this meeting. Back in June, the former CEO of Bleacher Report agreed to have coffee with Brett and David Kopf,... |
| 23.08.2016 | Remind’s Path to Revenue: Processing Payments for School Events | How often does Brett Kopf get reminded about the need to find a revenue stream for his free product?
This week, the chief executive of Remind finally has an answer: Activities, a feature that allows educators and administrators to digitally... |
| 23.08.2016 | Remind enters the payments space by letting parents pay for field trips with a credit card | We first covered Remind back in 2011, when it launched as a way for K-12 teachers to broadcast communications to a classroom full of parents. But over the past five years the company has evolved into an all-encompassing communication tool f... |
| 24.05.2016 | Bloomz raises $2.3 million to connect teachers and students’ families | Education tech startup Bloomz has raised $2.3 million in seed funding for an app that connects teachers and parents, securely.
The company’s app features tools that help teachers push updates about students or share photos of them from the ... |
| 28.04.2016 | Get Rid of Grade Levels: A Personalized Learning Recipe for Public School Districts | Public schools play a huge role in developing learners to be successful when they leave school. So why are charters and private schools considered the best places for “personalized learning”?
The problem with the current public education mo... |
| 15.04.2016 | ClassDojo raises $21 million for app to make parent-teacher meetings obsolete | ClassDojo has raised $21 million in a Series B round of venture funding for tech that connects educators to students’ parents, and helps them communicate consistently about student’s activities, social and behavioral development at school.
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| 04.04.2016 | Six Ways to Land a Job in the Diverse and Crazy World of Edtech | Tell me if this sounds familiar: You’ve been reading EdSurge for years now. You’ve closely followed the rise of Khan Academy, the MOOCs, and every other hot education technology trend. And now you’re considering getting into edtech yourself... |
| 20.02.2016 | It’s Time For Edtech Entrepreneurs To Throw Out Stale Business Models | Guido Kovalskys Contributor
Guido Kovalskys is founder and CEO of Nearpod.
We hear it again and again: The U.S. K-12 education system is in crisis.
In its 2015 report, the National Assessment of Educational Progress, otherwise known as “The... |
| 17.02.2016 | Remind's New Features Were Designed for Emergencies | During a recent flood in Cerritos, California, a principal at a pilot school used Remind for Schools to send a message to 700 families simultaneously. During the recent blizzard that blanketed the East Coast, the product saw activity soar a... |
| 21.01.2016 | 5 Ways to Become a ‘Full-Stack’ Librarian | In a previous article I proposed that college and university educators and administrators should think of their academic library as an educational technology. But this change in perception can only happen if academic librarians agree and ta... |
| 05.12.2015 | Edtech Should Focus On Teacher Evaluation And Accountability | Lucy Boyd Contributor
Lucy Boyd is a Masters in Public Policy candidate at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government. She previously taught seventh grade English at a public charter school in Newark, N.J., where she was also an instructional... |
| 07.10.2015 | The Race to Translate: Which Parent Communication Tool Will Reign Supreme? | First, it was parent-teacher communication by texting. Now, ClassDojo and Remind seem to be in a race to share information with parents in whatever native language they speak.
As if the CEOs had planned it, ClassDojo and Remind both announc... |
| 22.07.2015 | 15 Tips for New Teachers From a Technology Facilitator | As an Instructional Technology Facilitator, I have the immense privilege of seeing my school from a pretty unique perspective. I taught Social Studies for five years, and I’ll be honest: my purview of the educational landscape rarely extend... |
| 17.06.2015 | Brightwheel Raises $2.2M to Help You Go to Preschool | Dave Vasen has seen quite a few bright ideas in education, after working as director of strategy at Teach For America, bringing Kindle to the K-12 space at Amazon, and leading product development at AltSchool. But it wasn’t until he had a d... |
| 04.06.2015 | Because You Asked: Three Simple Ways of Inspiring Kids to Finish Their Homework | It’s time for another rousing edition of “Because You Asked,” a space for you to ask those questions weighing you down--the ones you don't even want to ask your friends. Got an edtech question that you want addressed? Send us a note, and it... |
| 31.03.2015 | Why Edtech Companies Fold | Geddit. Taught It. MommaZoo. In the last six months, all three of these companies have announced that they’re shutting their doors. Two are Imagine K12 graduates--a sobering reminder that not all IK12 companies go on to join the ranks of Cl... |
| 29.01.2015 | Koru Raises $8M to Connect Tech Employers, Recent Grads | Share Share on Facebook Share on Twitter LinkedIn Email Reprints
Seattle startup Koru has raised $8 million to continue growing its business at the intersection of recruiting for high-growth technology companies and training for recent coll... |
| 21.01.2015 | Remind Announces Spanish Language Version | Listos para recordar? (Ready to remind?)
On January 21, Remind launched a Spanish language version of its app. Used by over 1.5 million teachers, administrators and coaches--including 35% of K-12 teachers in the US--Remind continues to expa... |
| 20.01.2015 | Ed tech funding hit record levels in 2014 | The space saw $1.87 billion invested in 350 deals, with funding rising 55% from 2013
We've focusing on health teach around here lately, for obvious reasons (get your tickets to Splash Health now!), but that is obviously not the only space s... |
| 06.01.2015 | Where Are All the Venture Dollars Going in Ed-Tech? | The education technology industry is celebrating a record-breaking 2014, with companies having raised a collective $1.36 billion in the United States alone. Within that figure is another historic number, however — one symbolizing significan... |
| 30.09.2014 | Remind Closes $40M Series C Financing | Remind (formerly Remind101), a San Francisco, CA-based mobile communication product for teachers, students and parents, closed a $40m Series C financing.
The round was led by existing investor Kleiner Perkins Caufield & Byers (KPCB) wit... |
| 30.09.2014 | Funding Daily: It's all Good | Things are just dandy today at Good Technology, Eventboard, Front, Reddit, and a few other companies today. Read on to find out why. Good Technology takes $80M
Good Technology, a company that helps big businesses let their employees use mob... |
| 30.09.2014 | Remind Raises $40M in Series C |
SAN FRANCISCO, CA, Secure mobile communication product for teachers, students and parents, announced it has closed a $40 million Series C financing round.
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| 30.09.2014 | Tapping mobile communication between parents and teachers, Remind scores $40M | San Francisco-based startup Remind has no revenue to date. But that hasn’t stopped the secure broadcasting app for teachers, students, and parents from landing a new $40 million round on top of a previous $19 million.
Of course, there’s the... |
| 30.09.2014 | Tapping mobile communication between parents and teachers, Remind scores $40M | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
San Francisco-based startup Remind has no revenue... |
| 30.09.2014 | Funding Daily: It's all Good | We are excited to bring Transform 2022 back in-person July 19 and virtually July 20 - 28. Join AI and data leaders for insightful talks and exciting networking opportunities. Register today!
Things are just dandy today at Good Technology, E... |
| 24.06.2014 | Silicon Valley and the Edtech Revolution | Silicon Valley holds a certain mystique among entrepreneurs and investors. Here, more cool technology was born, more wealth created, and more technology revolutions begun, than anywhere else on the planet. The Valley’s formula for success h... |
| - | Smart Phones for Smart Kids | This article first appeared on the Wall Street Journal Aug. 21, 2014 7:37 p.m. ET
“This year more than 750 million educational apps for mobile devices will be installed world-wide.”
In the coming weeks, 55 million U.S. students in grades ... |
| - | Рост до $404 млрд к 2025 году, микрообучение и гонка маркетинговых бюджетов — как обстоят дела в EdTech | Индустрия EdTech или education technology подразумевает использование компьютерных технологий для упрощения и повышения эффективности образования. Это одна из индустрий, которая выиграла от режима изоляции во время пандемии коронавирусной и... |
