Edtech Insiders

This Week in Edtech with Ben Kornell, 8/26/22


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Topics This Week:

  1. Student Loan Forgiveness
    • NYT + Inside Higher Ed 
  2. Valuations
    • ”Stars Through Thunderstorms”
  3. Accelerator News
    • Y Combinator cuts startup batch size by 40% amid economic downturn
    • Crunchbase: 2,000 Tech Layoffs in 2022
  4. Higher Ed & K12 Enrollment
    • These Colleges and Universities Are Reporting Record Size Freshmen Classes + UC program seeks to re-enroll adults who stopped out
    • Hopeful but careful: Parents and teachers address new school year
    • Higher ed must build on what we learned during the pandemic
    • States Where Public Schools Are Losing the Most Students
    • Labor Disputes Threaten Start of New School Year
  5. Funding + M&A
    • Sunstone raises $35M
    • GrowthSpace raises $25M
    • Microverse raises $4M
    • ITHAKA raises $2.5M
    • Ready Player Me raises $56M 
    • BrightCHAMPS Acquires Schola
    • Nerdy Acquires Codeverse
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