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US Edtech Investments Peak Again With $1.45 Billion Raised in 2018

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edtech startups in 2017. And that dip in dealflow has been happening in recent years: Investors are pouring more money into the edtech industry, but across fewer companies. Source: EdSurge One trend is clear: The dollars invested in the US edtech industry has ticked up steadily since 2011 (considering 2015 as an aberration).

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From Good Intentions to Real Shortcomings: An Edtech Reckoning

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As the bubbly enthusiasm in the democratizing power of platforms like Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) and Khan Academy quietly wanes, we’ve seen more attention to digital inequity like the homework gap and gender discrimination in coding careers. Equitable: An analysis by John Hansen and Justin Reich of U.S. and globally.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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.” And in Delaware , “Authorities have arrested two Smyrna high school students in connection with threats involving clowns and bombs ,” the AP reports. ” “ Clown College Calls National Rash of Rumored Clown Scares ‘Troubling’,” The Chronicle of Higher Education reports. Raise $146.1

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Via The New York Times : “ Broadband Law Could Force Rural Residents Off Information Superhighway.” ” “Three months after the former Stanford University swimmer Brock Turner was sentenced to six months in jail for sexual assault, he was released on Friday,” NPR reports. ” More via Techcrunch.

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Via Wired : “ Koch Brothers Are Cities’ New Obstacle to Building Broadband.” Via NPR : “Grand Jury Report On Penn State Hazing Finds ‘Indignities And Depravities’ ” The Business (and Politics) of Student Loans. Online Education (and the Once and Future “MOOC”).

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Still more education news from the UK: “ Sam Gyimah replaces Jo Johnson as universities minister ,” The Times Higher Education reports. Kudos to the Houston Chronicle for the original reporting on this in 2016. Via Education Week : “ Trump Signs Orders on Rural Broadband Access.”

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Edsurge runs with Trump’s promise to boost rural broadband like it’s a truth anyone can count on. Via The LA School Report : “ LAUSD approves $7.5 ” “ Louisiana Becomes First State to Ban the Box,” Inside Higher Ed reports. “technologizing” the government. Go, School Sports Team!