The $34.5M price tag for Duolingo’s NextBeat acqui-hire came to light after Class Central dug through its quarterly SEC report.

The first time you see Tailwind CSS, you might wonder whether someone accidentally pasted their stylesheet into the HTML. A single button can have a dozen classes just to control its spacing, colors, rounded corners, and hover effects. Are we really supposed to write all that? Each class does a small, specific job. Once you recognize them, you can style an element right where you’re building it, without jumping between files or thinking up another class name. The HTML gets busier, but making c

In 2027, Duolingo is shutting down Duolingo for Schools, its free classroom tool that helped teachers track student progress and assign lessons. Coursera did the same thing last year, ending free course audits. It seemed sudden, but the signs were there. Class Central tracked the Duolingo for Schools shutdown too. And this time, the signs were all across social media platforms. Why the Shutdown? Duolingo for Schools was launched in 2015. Within a week, more than 10,000 teachers and 25,000 stud

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