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IXL Learning Agrees to Acquire Wyzant Tutoring Marketplace The deal will expand IXL's portfolio to include nationwide networks of mentors covering virtually all grade levels and subjects News provided by Share this article Share this article SAN MATEO, Calif., Feb. 4, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- IXL Learning, the K-12 personalized learning platform used by 11 million students, today announced it has agreed to acquire Wyzant, the nation's largest marketplace for online tutoring. The addition of the Chicago-based company will expand IXL's capacity to address the needs of all students with personaliz...

'A better time than any': Finding joy in music lessons, jams By TRACEE M. HERBAUGH These weren't the piano lessons of my youth. Quite the opposite.  Gone was the septuagenarian teacher crowding me on a piano bench at my grandmother's house, extolling the importance of Christian hymns. "Old Rugged Cross," "Jesus Loves Me," "How Great Thou Art." Grandma finally accepted my resignation after a few solid years of protest. Then last spring, as the pandemic droned on, I'd lost my job, and our schools in the Boston area remained closed, I decided to start taking piano lessons again.  It had been 3...