Renaissance Learning, a K12 assessment and learning analytics company, today announced the company has reached a definitive agreement to be acquired for $1.1 billion by private equity investment firm ...

Right on the heels of a $40 million investment from Google, Renaissance Learning is being bought out for more than $1 billion. The company shared with THE Journal that it's being acquired by Hellman & ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS, Wis., Oct. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/-- Renaissance Learning, Inc., a leading provider of technology-based school improvement and student assessment programs for K12 schools, today ...

Renaissance Learning has acquired ed tech provider Freckle Education (formerly known as Front Row Education). Freckle is the developer of a differentiated instruction platform of the same name, ...

Less than a month ago, Renaissance Learning, owned by Permira Fund, raised $40 million from Google Capital at a $1 billion valuation. Today, Permira will be getting that amount--and a bit more.

Renaissance Learning, which is backed by Permira, said Wednesday that John Lynch was named CEO effective Nov. 5. Lynch succeeds Glenn James, who by mutual agreement with company’s board has left to ...

Renaissance Learning has acquired UClass, a San Franciso, CA-based startup that’s billed itself as a “Dropbox for Education.” Terms of the deal were not disclosed. The deal comes six months after ...

Silicon Valley treasures its shiny, new startups. They’re the ones who typically get all the adoration, the attention… and the cash. Renaissance Learning is not one such company. And yet, on Wednesday ...

In Less than one month after announcing an investment by the newly-formed Google Capital that valued it at $1 billion, education tech company Renaissance Learning has been acquired by a new private ...

WISCONSIN RAPIDS – Founded in 1986, Renaissance Learning began after Judi Paul wanted to encourage her children to read proficiently. So she came up with the Accelerated Reader, a program that quizzes ...

SAN FRANCISCO, March 13 (Reuters) - Private equity firm Hellman & Friedman is acquiring education company Renaissance Learning for $1.1 billion cash from fellow private-equity firm Permira, ...

Renaissance Learning, the Google-funded K-12 assessment and learning analytics service with a valuation north of $1 billion, today announced that it has acquired UClass, a cloud storage and content ...