Instructure Goes Public

10 years ago

Today, Instructure became a public company (we’re INST on the NYSE). So what does that mean exactly?  Well, it really…

Varsity Tutors Secures $50M to Build World’s Largest Live Learning Platform

10 years ago

ST. LOUIS, Nov. 10, 2015 /PRNewswire/ — Varsity Tutors, the leading live learning platform for private instructors in the United States,…

The Atlantic: How Parental Incarceration Affects a Child’s Education

10 years ago

By Alia Wong This past summer, The Atlantic’s Sarah Yager wrote about the rising popularity of prison nurseries as a…

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Missteps, not student revolt, led to Mizzou chancellor’s demise

10 years ago

By Koran Addo Even as it became clear Monday morning that Timothy M. Wolfe would not stay on as president…

Post: Feds spent $7 billion to fix failing schools, with mixed results

10 years ago

By Lyndsey Layton and Emma Brown A national program that pumped a record $7 billion into failing schools — and…

From U.S. News & World Report: Taking the Teaching Profession to Task

10 years ago

By Lauren Camera The way teachers are recruited, trained, retained and compensated is about to get a major makeover, if…

Post: A serious rant about education jargon and how it hurts efforts to improve schools

10 years ago

If you have ever had children in school, or read a story about education policy, or participated in a school…

The Telegraph: Michael Rosen: Questioning ‘squeezed out’ of education

10 years ago

Former Children’s Laureate says humans are “questioning creatures” but this inquisitiveness is being stifled by the education system. By Josie…

From Fortune: Why Ed Tech Is Currently ‘The Wild Wild West’

10 years ago

The massive disruption of the education industry is well underway, but the biggest tremors are yet to come—disruptions so dramatic…

From The Atlantic: The Economic Imperative of Bilingual Education

10 years ago

Garland Independent School District, a fast-growing suburb northeast of Dallas, has undergone a dramatic demographic shift. Like districts across Texas,…