Anonymous ID: 7e1606 Dec. 13, 2019, 8:47 p.m. No.7502445   🗄️.is đź”—kun   >>2648 >>2812

Chegg, Inc Pres. Learning Services sold $4.02m-Dec 13

 

Chegg, Inc. is a student-first connected learning platform. The Company helps students study for college admission exams, find the colleges, get grades and test scores while in school, and find internships that allow them to gain skills to help them enter the workforce after college. The Company matches domestic and international students with colleges, universities and other academic institutions (collectively referred to as colleges) in the United States. It also offers eTextbooks library for rent and sale. The Company also has live tutors on its connected learning platform available to students online, anytime, anywhere through its Chegg Tutors service. It provides access to internships to help students gain skills that are critical to securing their first job. It offers two product lines: Required Materials and Chegg Services. The Required Materials product line includes the rental and sale of print textbooks and eTextbooks, as well as the commission it receives from Ingram.

Number of employees : 1 087 people.

The Poster Child for Institutionalized Academic Cheating

The 2019 college admission scandal has shined a new light on academic integrity in the United States. What was long considered to be socially acceptable or even legal is now coming into question as media and lawmakers are questioning the status quo in our educational system. Beyond Rick Singer and his manipulation of admissions, the conversation of institutionalized cheating cannot occur without first mentioning Chegg. Chegg, a $4 bil company that has made a business off selling answers to homework and selling a service that allows students to submit plagiarized work as original is undermining the educational system and will soon be brought to the forefront of media attention.In this report, Citron will explain how the “it’s never a problem until it’s a problem” moment has hit Cheggas now cheating does make a difference.

https://citronresearch.com/wp-content/uploads/2019/03/The-Poster-Child-for-Institutionalized-Academic-Cheating.pdf

 

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