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

2022/8/26
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Topics This Week:

  • Student Loan Forgiveness

  • NYT)** + Inside Higher Ed) **

  • Valuations

  • ”Stars Through Thunderstorms”)

  • Accelerator News

  • Y Combinator cuts startup batch size by 40% amid economic downturn)

  • Crunchbase: 2,000 Tech Layoffs in 2022)

  • 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)

  • 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)