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Chinese online education app Zuoyebang raises $1.6 billion from investors including Alibaba

TechCrunch

Zuoyebang offers online courses, live lessons and homework help for kindergarten to 12th grade students, and claims about 170 million monthly active users, about 50 million of whom use the service each day. In comparison, there were about 200 million K-12 students in 2019 in China, according to the Ministry of Education (link in Chinese).

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5 things to know about philanthropy to HBCUs

Candid

For a more “apples to apples” funding comparison, we also examined foundation funding to higher education institutions with similar attributes to HBCUs along five key dimensions: size, geographic region, institution type, locale, and specialization. By comparison, funding to HBCUs averaged $61 million from 2015 through 2019.

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Hallow Road review: Rosamund Pike and Matthew Rhys have come to scare you senseless

Mashable Tech

Tearfully, the college student tells her mother that she's been in a car collision, and she's about 40 minutes away on a heavily forested stretch known as Hallow Road. Hallow Road is a story of parents desperate to save their child. And while she's okay, someone is lying in the road, unmoving.

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Announcing new Tableau Data Literacy curriculum for higher education

Tableau

Bridge the data literacy gap for students in academia. In my many years as a scientist, I mentored trainees in data analysis and witnessed frustration, anxiety, and even productivity loss in students who lacked foundational data skills. Students will learn how to critically analyze data through theoretical and practical exercises.

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Chromebooks just had their best year ever

The Verge

For comparison, PC sales were up by 11 percent this year , which is the biggest growth the category had seen in a decade. Chromebooks are big sellers in the education market , and schools had to find a way to provide at-home students with computers for remote learning during COVID.

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This is Facebook’s internal research on the mental health effects of Instagram

The Verge

The previously unpublished documents include research on teen girls’ body image and appearance-based social comparison. We know Facebook executives believe that the company has positive overall benefits for the world, and we also know that they are meticulous students of their own data,” Newton wrote on Tuesday.

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Indian online learning platform Vedantu becomes unicorn with $100 million funding

TechCrunch

Vedantu offers live and interactive courses for students in grades six through 12. Students who have enrolled for the interactive sessions tap on their smartphone screen or click on the desktop to answer questions. As for the comparison with other firms, Krishna said, “there is no right or wrong way to operate.”.