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IXL Learning Agrees to Acquire Wyzant Tutoring Marketplace The deal will expand IXL s portfolio to include nationwide networks of mentors covering virtually all grade levels and subjects News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ IXL Learning, the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced it has agreed to acquire Wyzant, the nation s largest marketplace for online tutoring. The addition of the Chicago-based company will expand IXL s capacity to address the needs of all students with personalized, one-on-one mentoring. Wyzant lets students collaborate with tutors face-to-face through video chat and an interactive whiteboard for solving problems. ....
A better time than any : Finding joy in music lessons, jams By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH These weren t the piano lessons of my youth. Quite the opposite. Gone was the septuagenarian teacher crowding me on a piano bench at my grandmother s house, extolling the importance of Christian hymns. Old Rugged Cross, Jesus Loves Me, How Great Thou Art. Grandma finally accepted my resignation after a few solid years of protest. Then last spring, as the pandemic droned on, I d lost my job, and our schools in the Boston area remained closed, I decided to start taking piano lessons again. It had been 30 years. The grand staff was a foreign language and the only key I could recognize was middle C. ....