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Why I'm Still Bullish About the State of Edtech

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NYSE: INST), Coursera, Inc. LMS and Digital Learning topped the hype cycle in 2001 (a few years before Blackboard went public). Here’s why 2021 was a banner year for U.S. education and workforce technology companies: Six companies went public at valuations above $1 billion: PowerSchool Holdings, Inc. NYSE: PWSC), Duolingo, Inc.

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Campus Closures. What’s Tech Got to Do With It?

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According to the US Education Department IPEDS surveys, the largest number of public and non-profit private campuses was 3,393, in 2001. Closures As the graph below shows, college closures aren’t a brand new trend. The largest number of for-profit campuses was 1,451, in 2013. So tech is not preventing institutional closures.

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Hack Education Weekly News

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11, 2001, has not been in use since 2011, so the move is largely symbolic and appeared to be aimed at distancing the departing administration from any effort by the new president to revive the program, known as the National Security Entry-Exit Registration System, or Nseers.” Education Politics. ” The Business of Ed-Tech.