Edsurge
APRIL 1, 2022
This year’s 1 3th edition will swamp San Diego’s waterfront for four days and feature 1,000 speakers, including Thomas Friedman and Margaret Atwood, plus the buzziest for-profit companies in our industry. based education and workforce technology companies, together amounting to more than $150 billion in market capitalization.
Edsurge
OCTOBER 23, 2023
In 2002, a critical transition occurred when 94 percent of public schools secured always-on broadband connections, granting educators and students increased access to rich media content. Meanwhile, a trend that began in the 1990s was picking up steam — one-to-one computing. The AWS Education Accelerator application is now open.
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Edsurge
JUNE 23, 2020
Its early work focused on lobbying on behalf of its members, which also included companies across the banking, financial and trade publishing sectors. Panels and keynotes covered the latest industry trends. All the big companies wanted to find out who the new ones were. edtech companies, marking the highest tally of the decade.
Edsurge
JUNE 18, 2017
Working as an entrepreneur, executive, philanthropist and investor over the past few decades, at some of the very organizations Watters bemoans, I’ve had a unique vantage point for observing numerous successes, failures and—most importantly—long-term trends that make me optimistic about the next wave of education innovation.
Edsurge
FEBRUARY 25, 2020
That’s a spirit that is very much a part of 826, a network of elaborately whimsical tutoring and writing centers that Eggers helped launch in 2002. Nínive Calegari and I built it back in 2002 as a drop-in writing and tutoring center for kids in the neighborhood. There are companies that sell software that judge students’ writing.
Edsurge
JANUARY 5, 2018
For more than two decades, Jonathan Grayer has made a career out of welding educational companies. In 2010, he pooled his own money with KKR, a private equity firm, to launch Weld North , which has since acquired another 16 edtech companies (and invested in 4 others). Yet that’s not all.
Edsurge
AUGUST 22, 2019
Many would point to the high-profile announcements of expanded tuition-assistance programs from companies such as Starbucks , McDonald’s , Walmart and Chipotle as evidence of increased employer investment in employee development. This trend is laudable, and it is having an impact—but it masks a much more mixed picture.
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