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Going to School, Running a Startup: When Students Build Their Own Edtech

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Quizlet , the studying tool he built in 2005, is now one of the most widely used education apps, claiming more than 50 million active users in 130 countries who have created over 300 million study sets. So how did a San Francisco Bay Area high school sophomore create one of the most popular edtech products of all time?

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What Investors See in a ‘Highly Fragmented and Under-Teched’ Early Childhood Education Market

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Venture capital investments for early childhood edtech startups have been steadily increasing over the past decade, before the pandemic paused the trend. edtech startups. based early childhood edtech startups have raised about $372 million in venture capital, based on an EdSurge database of publicly disclosed investments.

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The Past Decade Forecasts a New Wave of Economic Opportunity in Education

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From 2008 to 2019 we have witnessed a 4,000-plus percent expansion in the number of funded edtech startups, and the best startups can become unicorns. From 2015 to 2019, entrepreneurs created 11 times the number of education unicorns compared to 2005 to 2014. We see an explosion of startups.

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Study: One-to-One Laptop Programs Improve Student Learning

Doug Levin

Zheng and colleagues did not collect original data; rather, they used a statistical technique (meta-analysis) to combine the findings of prior studies meeting specific quality criteria in an effort to identify larger trends in the emerging body of empirical evidence on laptop programs’ impact on learning.

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Meet the 5 Education Technology Startups From Y Combinator’s Summer 2017 Class

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Since 2005, Y Combinator has funded 1,430 companies and nearly 3,500 founders. Of this group, five teams are building education technology tools with support from mentors from Imagine K12, the local edtech accelerator that Y Combinator absorbed last February. But Mystery Science hopes to buck the trend.

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U.S. K-12 Educational Technology Policy: Historical Notes on the Federal Role

Doug Levin

FY 2005 $496,000,000 (President Bush’s request: $691,800,000). Federal Program Evaluations and Program-Related Reports: National Educational Technology Trends Study (NETTS). National Educational Technology Trends Study: Local-Level Data Summary (SRI International, 2008). FY 2003 $700,500,000. Department of Education video.

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Why We Don't Need a 'Netflix for Education'

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If the views expressed by leading edtech companies are any indication, the race to become the first 'Netflix of Education' is gathering steam. One feature of Netflix in particular seems to have captured the imagination of edtech companies. a, Dunlosky, J., & & Kornell, N. Annual Review of Psychology, 64, 417–44. Karpicke, J.