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Pear Deck Raises $4M to Jazz Up Digital Presentations in the Classroom

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A crop of startups have embarked on the laudable task of ridding the classroom of stale PowerPoint slides. The tool is also tightly integrated with Google tools—G Suite for Education and Google Classroom—which allows students to log in with their Google accounts. Haiku Learning, in turn, was bought by Powerschool in 2016.)

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PowerSchool Buys Chalkable, Tops $200 Million in Acquisition Spending

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The once venerable publisher axed several high-profile (and profitable) businesses in the Financial Times and The Economist as part of efforts to transform itself into a digital learning business. based company acquired Chalkable , a student information system (SIS) used largely in Alabama as well as in southern and midwestern U.S.