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This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 2/18/22

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Topics This Week:
- Education Stocks Take a Hit
- 306 global education stocks lost $120B of value in 2021, down 40%
- Edtech Stocks hit a steep learning curve
- Potato Head Becomes a Digital Therapist
- PresenceLearning partnered with Hasbro to bring beloved characters & classic games to therapy platform
- Funding + M&A Round-up
- Munic-based Edurino raised €3.35M to advance digital learning for kids
- Former Twitter India head Manish Maaheshwari’s Invact Metaversity raises funds @ $33M valuation
- Why these Udemy execs left to build a better Udemy
- Paper secures $343M CAD with US schools drawn to its remote tutoring tech
- Evidence as a Service
- GUEST: Karl Rectanus - Co-founder & CEO @ LearnPlatform
- LearnPlatform releases subscription to help solutions providers lower costs, build EdTech evidence that districts & states trust
- Homeschooling
- GUEST: Kelly Smith - Founder & CEO @ Prenda
Post-Recording Updates:
- Edtech is luring students to cheat with fake answer sites
- Edtech company Cengage names publishing vet as CTO
- Edtech market to reach S288B USD by 2031 (comprehensive research by FMI)
- Educators have some pointed advic
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