GoGuardian, which provides a suite of classroom management and student safety solutions, has acquired Edulastic, the companies announced this week.
Edulastic describes itself as a next-generation formative online assessment platform that helps teachers quickly identify learning gaps, give students differentiated assignments to meet individual learning needs, and monitors students’ progress on the way to standards mastery.
The acquisition will advance Los Angeles-based GoGuardian’s mission to create the “ultimate learning platform,” the announcement says.
“Gauging student understanding is a vital element of effective teaching and learning. The Edulastic team has created sophisticated, data-driven solutions that provide teachers with real-time, actionable insights that support great teaching and improved outcomes,” GoGuardian co-founder and CEO Advait Shinde said in a statement. “We couldn’t be more excited to welcome the talented Edulastic team into the GoGuardian f
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“Pear Deck really helps teachers make sure they’re reaching every student, every day,” Pear Deck CEO Riley Eynon-Lynch says, seen here at his office in Iowa City in 2015. (The Gazette)
When it comes to ed-tech, Iowa Finance Authority Executive Director Debi Durham says, “We need more cooperation from our education department. We need to be able to work with them to solve problems proactively, but more importantly, to test some of these things.” (Liz Martin/The Gazette)
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The global ed-tech market is expected to reach $1 trillion in the next eight years. Above, a class at Waverly-Shell Rock Middle School in Waverly. (The Gazette)