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The Asian Money Fueling US Edtech Investments

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The “cultivation of students’ entrepreneurship and innovation capabilities and practical skills” was a priority in China’s 5-Year Plan for 2016-2020. To adapt, many companies are investing domestically, particularly in China, where edtech companies raised more than $1.2 edtech startups raised last year. Nearly every major U.S.

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Chief Privacy Officers: A Small But Growing Fleet in Higher Education

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When Kathleen Sutherland took the helm as Chief Privacy Officer for the University of Colorado in 2003, there weren’t very many people in higher ed she could turn to for guidance and advice. That’s because not many people had that role. There was some resistance,” Sutherland remembers.

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Why I’m Optimistic About the Next Wave of Education Technology

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Edtech, I believe, is going through a similar rebuilding moment powered by three trends: widely available infrastructure, the catalytic impact of spending by both the government and philanthropy in education, and—finally—the embrace of edtech by educational institutions and educators themselves. Not yet convinced?

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How a $40M Investment Aims to ‘Mainstream and Modernize’ Montessori Education

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Girn started his Montessori career in 2003 as a math and science teacher at LePort Schools, then a chain of three Montessori schools in southern California. In 2020, Higher Ground added 27 campuses to its network of schools. Many companies in edtech take the Netflix approach. He climbed up the ladder and became its CEO in 2009.

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Funding School Services in the Midst of Multiple Crises

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Susan Gentz, a partner at K20Connect, provided a guide to the types of emergency federal funding that became available during the summer of 2020, as well as some of the issues that districts receiving funding will need to work through. Arati is currently on the edtech advisory board for Central Square Foundation in New Delhi, India.

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Speak Up 2021 Congressional Briefing: Lessons Learned from a Year of Virtual School

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Since 2003, Project Tomorrow’s Speak Up has collected data on the important issues facing schools. She was named in 2020 as the winner of EdTech Digest’s National Leader award. Evans, along with a panel of K-12 student voices, discussed findings from this year’s Speak Up Research Project.

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Who Should Bear the Cost of Data Interoperability in K-12 Education?

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And it’s scenarios like this that put pressure on edtech companies to make their tools more interoperable. As standards come and go, edtech developers are tasked with supporting new technical integrations demanded by school and district customers. With this approach, the data was at most 24-hour stale, but Bacon says it worked.

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