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The most innovative companies in education in 2025

Fast Company Tech

Generative AI continues to fuel growth at online learning platforms like Coursera , which has doubled down on micro-credentials and now offers more than 80 professional certificates with AI courses that are intended to prepare job candidates for entry-level roles without a college degree.

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Listening to teachers to support students impacted by COVID-19 

Candid

To get students back on track, we need to get resources immediately into classrooms, stop shifting the financial burdens of education onto teachers, and enable teachers to engage with students in innovative ways. Since 2020, DonorsChoose has partnered with 10 states to allocate a total of $100 million in ESSER funding to classrooms.

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Lingoda, an on-demand online language school with live instructors and Zoom classrooms, raises $68M

TechCrunch

A startup out of Berlin that’s built and grown a successful online language learning platform based around live teachers and virtual classrooms is announcing some funding today to continue expanding its business.

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Are you ‘AI literate’? Schools and jobs are insisting on it—and now it’s EU law

Fast Company Tech

Beyond the classroom For most people, learning to navigate AI means sorting through corporate marketing claims with little guidance.

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Why some school districts are spending big on schools tailor-made for 4-year-olds

Fast Company Tech

The classrooms have child-size boats and construction vehicles children can play on, and ceilings painted to resemble outer space. Creators of the Reggio Emilia approach to early learning, an educational philosophy that emphasizes child-led learning, even refer to the environment as the third teacher in a classroom.

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UC Santa Cruz Students Volunteering for Impact with Bookshare

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

UC Santa Cruz students who participated in our volunteer pilot project— proofreading textbooks for our Bookshare collection—have done a fantastic job proofreading over a short period of time three entire textbooks! I’m delighted to share with you today a wonderful success story from our Volunteer Program.

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Grow the Human Skills: Critical Thinking, Creativity, Collaboration, and Communication

.orgSource

It’s certain that jobs, which are ubiquitous in the current economy, will disappear in the same way that file clerks and gas station attendants have vanished. According to a study from Goldman Sachs, “Generative AI tools could impact 300 million full-time jobs worldwide, which could lead to a significant disruption in the job market.”

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