5 posts and columns on homework

Start-Up Slader Looks to Solve the Math Homework Problem

in Commerce on December 4, 2011 at 3:36 pm PT

Slader, a quiet New York-based education start-up, is picking away at what the school-attending population would probably list as the biggest pain point in their young lives: Homework.
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Chegg Buys Zinch in Another Move Toward a “Social Education Platform”

in Commerce on September 15, 2011 at 6:00 am PT

The online textbook rental is on a hiring spree to expand its student-aimed business all year round. The latest move: Acquiring Zinch, which links high school students with college recruiters.
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Exclusive: Chegg Buys Cramster

in News on December 8, 2010 at 12:02 am PT

According to sources close to the situation, online textbook rental company Chegg has acquired Cramster, a social online homework help platform. The Cramster purchase is one in a series of start-up buys that Chegg has been making of late, part of a strategy to be a central place for student needs.

Kindle Ate My Homework

in News on July 30, 2009 at 4:17 pm PT

Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos’s hair-shirt apology for Kindlegate was a nice gesture, but it didn’t go over particularly well with Justin Gawronski, a Michigan high school senior who lost his homework when the retailer remotely deleted a copy of George Orwell’s “Nineteen Eighty-Four” from his Kindle earlier this month. He’s filed a class action suit against Amazon seeking to prevent it from deleting books from Kindles in the future.
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Voices

What Did the Xbox Ever Do to Obama?"

in News on July 17, 2009 at 11:14 am PT

In a speech to the NAACP Thursday night, President Barack Obama exhorted parents to play a more active role in raising and educating their children, including “putting away the Xbox” when it’s bedtime.