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Tony Wan

Tony Wan

Managing Editor at EdSurge

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48
Location
United States
Languages
  • English
Covering topics
  • Business
  • Finance & Banking Services
  • Education

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Recent Articles

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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market - E...

With widespread lockdowns and closures last year, the critical role that schools and child care centers play in supporting children may never have been ...
over 3 years ago
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Coursera’s IPO Filing Shows Growing Revenue and Loss During a Pande...

This afternoon, Coursera filed its S-1 paperwork, offering a first look at how the Mountain View, Calif.-based online education provider is faring as ...
over 3 years ago
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GSV Ventures Raises $180M Fund in Search of Global Edtech Opportuni...

With an investment fund, a conference and a constellation of advisory services, GSV may be the closest thing to an omnipresent brand in education ...
over 3 years ago
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A New SEL Program Finds Its ‘Way’ to Schools, Survival and $1.5M in...

Patrick Cook-Deegan once wanted to build a school, one focused on helping high school students find purpose through attending to their mental health ...
over 3 years ago
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Newsela Raises $100M to Challenge K-12 Textbook Publishers, Eyes Ac...

Business news is packed with unicorns, and Newsela is the latest in education to join the herd after reaching the vaunted billion-dollar valuation.That ...
over 3 years ago
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Hobsons’ Higher Ed Business Split and Sold in Separate Deals Totali...

Hobsons, which offers a suite of software for college and career planning, admissions and enrollment, and student success and advising, will be broken ...
almost 4 years ago
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Renaissance Learning to Acquire Nearpod in Blockbuster $650M All-Ca...

With constant budget pressures, protracted sales cycles and a diffuse web of different purchasing processes, the K-12 education market is not for the ...
almost 4 years ago
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Interplay Raises $18M to Build a Lynda.com for Essential Skilled Tr...

Toilets remain one of humankind’s most ingenious engineering feats. But while the most advanced bidets can wash themselves (along with other parts), ...
almost 4 years ago
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Instructure to Sell Bridge for $50M and Exit Corporate Learning Mar...

Where Instructure planned to go with Bridge, its learning management system for corporate and enterprise customers, has been an open question for over ...
almost 4 years ago
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Child Care in Crisis: How the Pandemic Is Changing the Lives of Ear...

Early childhood education professionals have always faced challenges. EdSurge is exploring how the pandemic has pushed this already vulnerable ...
almost 4 years ago
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Digital Courseware Provider Top Hat Gets $130M and a New CEO - EdSu...

Another balding founder of a tech company is passing the baton off to a successor. No, this is not the same shellshock as Jeff Bezos’ resignation ...
almost 4 years ago
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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori...

There is a certain mystique to the Montessori world, which is just as much philosophy as it is pedagogy. For starters, it has its own vocabulary. (The ...
almost 4 years ago
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The Edtech Company Formerly Known as AltSchool Sold Its Tech. So Wh...

A learning management system developed by one of the most high-profile, highly funded and overhyped K-12 education startups has found a new home.First, ...
almost 4 years ago
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EdSurge Reflects On a Year of Pandemic-Era Education Journalism - E...

EdSurge Reflects On a Year of Pandemic-Era Education Journalism  EdSurge
almost 4 years ago
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Crises and Capital: The Top Edtech Business Stories of 2020 - EdSur...

“Never let a good crisis go to waste,” so the saying goes. The education industry didn’t. In fact, many capitalized on it in 2020.School closures have ...
almost 4 years ago
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What to Know About Miguel Cardona, Biden’s Pick for Education Secre...

Teaching experience. An advocate for programs supporting underserved learners. A focus on tackling the digital divide and resource inequities laid bare ...
almost 4 years ago
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How Is the ISA Experiment Faring So Far? - EdSurge News

Income-share agreements have emerged as a new financing option for colleges and nontraditional education programs. They’ve generated excitement among ...
almost 4 years ago
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Aceable Drives Its Way Into Other Training Industries — and $50M in...

As Blake Garrett was bouncing around ideas for a new business in 2012, he had some sense of what he wanted to build.It was going to be a mobile ...
almost 4 years ago
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Pluralsight, Vista Equity Partners Agree to $3.5 Billion Acquisitio...

Pluralsight, the publicly-traded provider of online training courses on technology skills, has reached an agreement to be acquired by Vista Equity ...
almost 4 years ago
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More Colleges Are Offering Income-Share Agreements. Are Students Bu...

At an event in April 2019, Diane Jones, the Education Department’s principal deputy undersecretary, said the department was considering an experiment ...
almost 4 years ago
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Automated Proctors Watch Students. Now Senators Are Watching These ...

Companies offering proctoring tools that monitor students as they take online exams are now being watched themselves—by Democratic senators. Led by ...
almost 4 years ago